Tag: Jim Acosta

Can we all just forget about Russia now? Because the biggest scandal of the summer in the media’s eyes seems to be the White House press briefing that CNN’s Jim Acosta turned into an impromptu poetry reading-slash-debate with White House senior adviser Stephen Miller. It was last Wednesday when social media decided Miller was aNazi, a white supremacist, and/or Hannibal Lecter for informing Acosta that “The New Colossus,” the poem mounted inside the State of Liberty’spedestal in 1903, does not constitute official U.S. immigration policy. Miller also accused Acosta of showing his “cosmopolitan bias” by assuming that requiring immigrants to speak English would limit the privilege to residents of Australia and Great Britain.

That “cosmopolitan bias” crack must have resonated throughout the White House press corps, as journalists immediately set about doing what it is they do. No, they didn’t correct Acosta on his absurd claim about who speaks English; instead, they investigated Miller, with some insisting “cosmopolitan” was an anti-Semitic dog whistle “an unnerving term key to an attempt by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to purge the culture of dissident voices.”

The ugly history of Stephen Millers 'cosmopolitan' epithet https://t.co/gPCNN6loOF pic.twitter.com/oB4Z7l4V9u

— POLITICO (@politico) August 4, 2017

Again, that was last Wednesday. Now it’s the followingMonday, and members of the blue-check brigade still have their attention set on discrediting Miller. How dare he be so rude to a reporter just because he decided to grandstand during a press briefing and act as the opposition party. And look who’s calling others cosmopolitan:

Stephen Miller, who blasted media "cosmopolitans," lives in $1M home https://t.co/FYOtKhTNpL pic.twitter.com/KajsLh2tC9

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 7, 2017

Stephen Miller blasted a reporter as cosmopolitan. But he lives in a $1 million CityCenter condo. https://t.co/BhexsLm8eh

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 7, 2017

Stephen Miller blasted a reporter as 'cosmopolitan.' But he lives in a $1 million CityCenter condo. https://t.co/MjdHMdlXZy

— Emily Heil (@emilyaheil) August 7, 2017

Stephen Miller literally lives in a $1 million glass house https://t.co/qmrJwLc1IV

— Alex Horton (@AlexHortonTX) August 7, 2017

Stephen Miller dropped a $500k down payment on a $1M condo in downtown DC. (He was a Hill staffer at the time) https://t.co/B7qXdhxvx6

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) August 7, 2017

Talking about other people's "cosmopolitan bias" when you can afford a half-million-dollar DC down payment at 28…https://t.co/7nDNaChG2w

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 7, 2017

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