CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta tried to shame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for labeling the protestors that hate his country “Iran’s useful idiots” because, apparently, Acosta doesn’t understand the difference between free speech and being free from criticism. Additionally, it took his Democratic guest to inform viewers that some of the demonstrators took to burning the American flag outside of Union Station in Washington.
Speaking with Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Ben Cardin, Acosta asked, “What is your response to the prime minister referring to protesters who have been demonstrating against the war in Gaza as quote, ‘Iran’s useful idiots’ is that kind of language, the kind of language that a head of state should be using in an address to Congress talking about Americans in that fashion, I mean people have the right to free speech, should he be describing critics of the war as Iran's useful idiots, especially in the middle of the campaign?”
It is a testament to Acosta’s skill that he was able to fit so much nonsense and hypocrisy into so few words. First, it is the Biden Administration that has said that Iran is funding the protestors. Second, Acosta is deeply offended by “Iran’s useful idiots” despite the media spending the last several years labeling Republicans as Russia’s useful idiots.
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