A shoutout to Jim Acosta amid a walk through the tombstones of corporate media careers ruffled the feathers of the former CNN “journalist.”
“… liberalism is a mental illness …”
After Netflix was outbid by Paramount Skydance in an effort to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, Acosta has repeatedly been beside himself about the possibility his former network, CNN, could go the way of CBS News with a “chilling” shift to balanced news coverage.
Friday, he renewed his outrage while referring to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr as President Donald Trump’s “media henchman” after the bureaucrat rattled off a list of career casualties from the chief executive choosing to run “directly at the fake news media.”
“President Trump took on the fake news media and President Trump is winning,” Carr said from the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference being held in Grapevine, Texas. “Look at the results so far: PBS defunded; NPR defunded; Joy Reid gone from MSNBC; sleepy-eyed Chuck Todd gone; Jim Acosta gone; John Dickerson gone; [Stephen] Colbert is leaving; CBS is under new ownership; and soon enough CNN is gonna have new ownership as well.”
Reacting on X, Acosta wrote, “Trump’s media henchman doesn’t realize this but what millions of people take away from this is that they SHOULD watch PBS and listen to NPR and turn to independent media. Americans don’t like the government telling them what they can and cannot watch.”
Trump’s media henchman doesn’t realize this but what millions of people take away from this is that they SHOULD watch PBS and listen to NPR and turn to independent media. Americans don’t like the government telling them what they can and cannot watch. https://t.co/BhAiLMhWc3
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 27, 2026
In his remarks, Carr had also said, “Look, President Trump, when he ran for office, he ran directly at the fake news media. So many other politicians and Americans simply gave way to the legacy national media, they let the legacy media set the narrative and President Trump smashed the facade. He said you don’t get to decide what we say, what we think, how we’re gonna vote inside the voting booth.”
As the revamped account of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ second failed presidential campaign — dubbed a “Gen-Z led progressive content hub” rather than a more apt description as a propaganda mill — also jumped at the opportunity to fearmonger, Acosta had shared the clip at a second point with the caption, “Dude has dictator envy”
Dude has dictator envy https://t.co/hRKBmbDpYw
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 27, 2026
Known for being labeled a “rude, terrible person” by the president, Acosta’s latest grievance with accountability came one week after the onetime White House correspondent had joined California Sen. Adam Schiff (D) for a partisan struggle session made up to look like a hearing to complain about the possibility of CNN’s parent company getting bought by CBS News’ parent company.
“… you basically have partisan hacks running CBS News,” argued Acosta. “And they, as I said earlier in my comments, shelved a piece on ’60 Minutes’ about the notorious CECOT prison. And we all remember those images of Secretary Kristi Noem standing in front of those cages filled with human beings. Some of them were migrants who were wrongfully detained by this administration and treated like animals.”
In response to the spin, social media reactions endeavored to set Acosta straight on the biases at NPR, PBS and elsewhere by backing Carr’s assessment, “He is telling the truth, liberalism is a mental illness..”
He is telling the truth, liberalism is a mental illness..
— FZB (@fzb3346) March 28, 2026
PBS and NPR are nothing but liberal propaganda. Why should taxpayers fund this.
If they have enough people interested in their lies they will be fine on their own. If not the don’t deserve to continue to exists.
They were the government telling people what to think. That is…
— NeoTheRed (@NeoTheRed) March 28, 2026
We think for ourselves.
I watch CNN, MSNBC sometimes to make sure I can still detect bs.
— Tina (@KayT_Phelps) March 28, 2026
Says the idiot who makes up stories and no one pays attention to any longer
— Craig Long (@CraigLo76386073) March 28, 2026
I don’t think dictators defund government funded news station/channels.
You may be retarded .
— The Tired Boston Guy 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇮🇪 (@thetiredbosguy) March 28, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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