{"id":49243,"date":"2021-05-01T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T23:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49243"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T22:46:45","slug":"whoa-cnns-acosta-rips-on-new-york-post-and-fox-news-usda-grade-a-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49243","title":{"rendered":"WHOA! CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta Rips New York Post and Fox News: USDA Grade A Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day. Anchoring CNN&#8217;s Saturday <em>Newsroom<\/em>, Jim Acosta reported on the debunked and ridiculed story that the children&#8217;s book &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3xEb0YN\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superheroes Are Everywhere<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; by Vice-President Kamala Harris was given to every migrant child who arrived at border detention facilities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-fake-news.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Fake News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Acosta&#8217;s take on the easily disproven story was an epic smackdown of the fake news purveyors that included the New York Post and Fox News. It was a thing of beauty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Take for example the uproar over this New York Post story that claimed that copies of a children&#8217;s book written by Vice-President Kamala Harris was being given to migrant kids in their &#8220;welcome&#8221; kit. That tale from the border didn&#8217;t just border on BS, This was USDA Grade A bullshit and the reporter who wrote the story resigned claiming she was forced to make it up. But the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves at the bullshit factory also known as Fox News.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From there the lie kept spreading. Prominent Republicans like House Minority Whip, Steve Scalise, who suggested the Vice-President was profiting off the problems at the border. His tweet is still up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Acosta: This was USDA Grade A bullshit and the reporter who wrote the story resigned&#8230; but the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves at the bullshit factory also known as Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1j2GDOVlwJ\">pic.twitter.com\/1j2GDOVlwJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1388591548988674048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The story, of course <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/right-wasted-no-time-touting-bogus-story-about-kamala-harris-n1265472\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wasn&#8217;t true<\/a><\/strong>. There was a single book received among donations to help the kids by members of the community. But that didn&#8217;t stop the right-wing fabulists intent on manufacturing fake scandals from jumping on the phony allegation and disseminating it to their fact-averse followers.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous high-ranking politicos regurgitated the flagrant falsehood. And their tweets also still remain online. They include GOP Minority Leader <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1386776420651839489\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a><\/strong>, GOP Party Chair <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPChairwoman\/status\/1386675474802352137\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronna McDaniel<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1386424009839894528\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Tom Cotton<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1386822222665367554\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Jim Jordan<\/a><\/strong>, to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post deleted the original story and then replaced it with another version that said that <em>&#8220;Kamala isn\u2019t at the southern border \u2014 but at least one migrant kid got Veep\u2019s book.&#8221;<\/em> The new version, which changed little more than the headline, was also attributed to the original author, despite her having resigned amid complaints that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Italiano_Laura\/status\/1387165113443098629\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she was forced to write the false article<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet to which Acosta was referring is one that Scalise posted with a video of Biden&#8217;s press secretary, Jen Psaki. She was responding to a question from Peter Doocy of Fox News who asked whether Harris <em>&#8220;was making any money&#8221;<\/em> off of the book&#8217;s distribution that never happened. Scalise asked in his tweet if <em>&#8220;Kamala Harris [is] profiting off the border crisis?&#8221;<\/em> No, she wasn&#8217;t. And, yes, it&#8217;s still there:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH ? White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodges and says &quot;I hear it&#39;s a good book&quot; when asked if Kamala Harris is making money off her book being handed out at border facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Is Kamala Harris profiting off the border crisis?<\/p>\n<p>Americans deserve to know. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TAdBs7IdM6\">pic.twitter.com\/TAdBs7IdM6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1387026209817645059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s satisfying to see the more conventional news networks speaking truthfully about the blatant dishonesty of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s propaganda enterprises. They are the most prominent and prolific source of disinformation and they present an imminent danger to democracy and America. It&#8217;s long past time that they be treated by legitimate journalists as the right-wing domestic terror PR agency. Because that is what they are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day. Anchoring CNN&#8217;s Saturday Newsroom, Jim Acosta reported on the debunked and ridiculed story that the children&#8217;s book &#8211; Superheroes Are Everywhere &#8211; by Vice-President Kamala Harris was given to every migrant child who arrived at border detention facilities. Acosta&#8217;s take on the easily disproven story was an epic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[42,33,1013,1410,1254,1357,29,30,1252],"class_list":["post-49243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-cnn","tag-fox-news","tag-immigration","tag-jen-psaki","tag-jim-acosta","tag-kamala-harris","tag-new-york-post","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-steve-scalise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-fake-news.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cOf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54655,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54655","url_meta":{"origin":49243,"position":0},"title":"Al Franken Shows How to Make Republican Hacks Squirm By Using this One Little Trick &#8211; Truth!","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN has not exactly been dignifying itself lately. 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Consequently, they have resorted to laughably fantastical tales of Biden plotting to eliminate meat, or phantom links on the White House website,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News, Jen Psaki","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-psaki-logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-psaki-logo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-psaki-logo.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":49830,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49830","url_meta":{"origin":49243,"position":5},"title":"Fox News, Who Attacked Kamala Harris for Not Going to the Border, Now Attacks Her for Going","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/23\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Never let it be said that Fox News isn't capable or adjusting their perspective when circumstances change. 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