CNN’s Jim Acosta was showing his ass again today at the White House with Kellyanne Conway, and she was having none of it. She tore into him, calling him a “smart ass” and accusing him of throwing something in her fact that she explained many times. She also told him that a lot of the press people didn’t like him. Ouch!
Here’s the exchange via Daily Mail:
Here’s more:
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway slammed Jim Acosta as ‘a smart ass’ on Tuesday after the CNN reporter asked her if President Donald Trump will ‘tell the truth’ in his Oval Office address.
Conway, speaking to reporters in the White House driveway, didn’t hold back on her contempt for Acosta, telling him she was the ‘only one around here who gives you the time of day’ – a likely reference to her fellow administration officials.
The 60 second exchange came ahead of Trump’s primetime speech on border security Tuesday night as the White House and Democrats remain at an impasse on ending the partial government shutdown.
The exchange:
Acosta: ‘Can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? Will he tell the truth?’
Conway: ‘Yes Jim and can you promise that you will?’
Acosta: ‘I will. Absolutely.’
Conway: ‘The whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. Am I allowed to mention God to you?’
Acosta: ‘I’m not the one that has the alternative facts problem like you do. Will the president tell the truth?’
Conway: ‘Make sure that goes viral.’
Acosta: ‘Okay.’
(crosstalk)
Conway: ‘This is why I’m one of the only people around here who gives you the time of day.’
Acosta: ‘Can you guarantee that the president’s speech will pass a fact check?’
Conway: ‘Let me get back in your face because you’re such a smart ass most of the time and I know you want this to go viral, a lot of these people don’t like you. But just let me be respectful to the media at large as I always am, I explained that was alternative information and additional facts and I explained it many times. And don’t you put it back it my face for all the corrections that your network needs to issue. I was on your network 25 or 26 times in 2018 and I’m one of the last people here that even bothers to go on. And the disrespect that you show to me personally, I’ll just…’
Acosta: ‘Ma’am I just asked you if the president will tell the truth tonight.’
Conway: ‘Don’t call me ma’am just to make it up.’
Acosta is as contemptible as they come in the media and he lives for exchanges just like this. He loves the viral attention he gets and claims that he’s just doing his job. But everyone can hear his smug attitude, whether they admit it or not, and it’s clear he’s just trying to hold up his anti-Trump reputation.
I’m glad Conway gave it back to him on this one, but honestly, it’d have been better for her to ignore him.