This exchange…
Ethics villain, Jim Acosta eventually quit CNN in a snit because it began showing a little bit of balance regarding President Trump, but how was such a partisan, biased Axis hack allowed to be CNN’s White House correspondent in the first place? The guy is an A1 Choice USDA -certified ethics villain and, incidentally, an asshole.
Cheer-leading for Colbert is signature significance, to begin with. Gutfield is correct on the facts: it has been verified repeatedly that CBS was losing millions on Colbert.
A swollen staff is part of the reason; the other reason is that Colbert deliberately alienated half the country.
Acosta then defaults to the Axis narrative that President Trump got Colbert cancelled. It’s a lie, flat out. “Dear Leader” is a sarcastic name used by the Trump Deranged. This Axis “advocacy journalist” was out to trash President Trump from the moment he was elected,
Then Acosta privets to the “poor fired employees” guilt trip. They lost their jobs because the show they were working for was losing money! It happens to the best of us (and me, several times). That’s how business works in the U.S. Too bad this isn’t the socialist worker’s paradise Acosta and his fellow travelers dream about. And Gutfield didn’t celebrate the staff losing their jobs anyway. He stated that the staff was ridiculously huge, which it was.
[I will link to Jim Acosta’s ugly EA dossier when WordPress is functioning better, which it currently is not, and its “Happiness Engineers” (Yuck!) have been useless.]
He’s an Ethics Villain. When people complain about Trump calling the news media the “enemy of the people,” Jim Acosta is Exhibit A in the President’s defense.
Note: Exhibit B could be Dana Milbank, whom the Washington Post finally jettisoned as one of its partisan columnists after years of Axis hackery. Today on ABC he cited as one of the three reasons Kamala Harris lost the election was “the backlash against a black woman being the Democratic nominee.” Just thinking that, never mind saying it in public, disqualifies anyone as a serious and trustworthy analyst. Milbank was a political reporter and columnist for the Washington Post for 25 years.
Ethics Alarms 
Acosta isn’t just an ethics villain, he is a villain period.
Any major lib dude could play the “the poor people who lost their jobs…” card, or it’s close cousin, the race card… Oh, wait! All those people supposedly employed by Colbert’s show are, at least to the untrained eye, almost all lily-white! I count maybe two obvious minorities — Where is Acosta’s concern for the racial imbalance?? Oh, the humanity!
I know money is not supposed to be a concern for the Left where employment is concerned, but CBS as a big, evil corporation surely does care about those sweet, sweet dollars — or in this case, the lack thereof. Where is Acosta’s condemnation of all that corporate greed? I guess when you’re a Lefty, you get to pick your choice of outrage and ignore the inconvenient ones.
The dude is a clueless idiot, made evil by is own bias.
Acosta: You are celebrating the fact that all of these people are losing their heir jobs.
Gutfeld: No, Jim. I am celebrating that 168 white people are losing their jobs. I cried a tear for the 12 black and brown people who are losing theirs… Oh wait, having sympathetic tears for black-n-brown people is passive racism. Sorry. I’ll celebrate their loss too, for equality’s sake of course.
Where was his logic when cancel culture was running rampant in our society? It’s still not dead, even if Trump has slowed it down temporarily.
The logic seems to be something like…
Cheering for someone who is grossly incompetent to lose his job is bad because the grossly incompetent person employs others, and those people will be harmed by the incompetent person’s losing his job.
It seems more reasonable to say that the incompetent person is the one at fault. IF Colbert hadn’t gone full Democrat and had pulled himself back, who knows what could’ve happened? I’m still waiting for another Johnny Carson.
There was SO much money to be made whipping up and catering to the Trump Deranged in 2016 that its allure was simply irresistible. To way too many people. Hundreds of people went all in on it.
I suppose short term that’s true, but if you want a sustainable model that gets everyone watching, you need clever comedy that isn’t blatantly partisan, and you shouldn’t be yelling profanity on public airwaves.
I am for separate spheres. The FCC needs to regulate public broadcasts much harder. For example, Bad Bunny never should’ve been allowed to perform at the Super Bowl. If people want to watch him on YouTube or listen to his music on their own, that’s their choice, but public airwaves need to have some decency, and his lyrics were extremely sexual.
Same thing with these comedians. If any comedian wants to do their own standup on YouTube, streaming, or their own company, go for it. I liked George Carlin, but I wouldn’t have wanted his stand up on regular TV either.
In shared public spaces (airwaves or otherwise), we need standards of decency to keep society running smoothly. People Kimmel and Colbert are actively degrading that idea.
And Dana Millbank and Keith Olbermann are best friends, maybe going back to college days. Ugh.
If you haven’t already, Ann Coulter’s Olbermann’s Plastic Ivy is a (IMO) must read.
In it she positively eviscerates his over-sized @$$, which she unequivocally owns; she knows it…and HE knows it!
PWS
Well, Keith is a big baseball fan, a knowledgeable one, and funny. I could be friends with him, if he kept his conversation to baseball. I have quite a few friends in isolated areas of common interest where we never open topics that might be contentious.
All true, but he has a very large insane streak. He was the top of ESPN talent, and there was a lot back then, before he lost his mind.
When blue collar jobs in manufacturing and mining were lost they said “Learn to code”!