Howard Kurtz Hits Jim Acosta for Shouting at Trump: I Have ‘Problems’ With How He ‘Does His Job’
CNN’s Jim Acosta faced something of a backlash for shouting questions at President Donald Trump as he spoke to children at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday — and Fox News host Howard Kurtz joined in on the drubbing.
CNN’s chief White House correspondent shouted questions at Trump about DACA — and the president responded, as he colored with his young son and other children. The move drew rebukes from many in the conservative media, as well as Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, who called for Acosta to have his press credentials revoked.
“I’m all for shouted questions, but Jim Acosta clearly crossed a line by doing it in this setting with a bunch of children surrounding the president,” Kurtz said on Fox News Tuesday. “And he did get an answer which is why reporters do it.”
The Media Buzz host went on to argue “that it’s no accident that Acosta did this on DACA, an issue on which he is clearly an advocate” — recalling when the CNN reporter grilled White House adviser Stephen Miller on immigration.
“Now does that sound like a journalist question or an activist engaging in debate?” Kurtz asked.
“CNN, I have to assume, must be happy with the job that Acosta is doing, because this sort of thing has come up again and again, and he doesn’t seem to be reigned in by the network at all,” Kurtz said.
“I was critical of correspondents who were rude and interrupted Barack Obama, so I’m consistent on this,” Kurtz added.
“But when you do it in that fashion,” he said, “that’s not really the role of the White House correspondent, and that’s where I have some problems in the way Acosta does his job.”
Acosta’s aggressive reporting drew comparisons to Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro, who interrupted a speech by President Barack Obama in 2012 with shouted questions.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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