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Tuesday was the end of an era with Jim Acosta’s 18 years at CNN coming to an end with the showboater choosing to avoid a demotion to weekdays at midnight Eastern and jumping ship with a cartoonish commentary about not “bow[ing] down to a dictator” and not “giv[ing] into the lies.” In the roughly minutes before that, Acosta was unapologetically partisan and went full Homer Simpson dropping a match on the bridge while driving away in a convertible.
After a lead-off report from correspondent Phil Mattingly about the spending pause, Acosta went to Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) on the same topic and fear-mongering about Head Start and grossly wishcasting school children would go hungry:
[I]f I can ask the control room to put that graphic back up on the screen that was showing some of these programs that might be impacted potentially, I believe we’re talking about Head Start, school breakfast and lunch programs. My goodness, congressman, these are programs for needy kids for hungry kids. We’re going to stop giving kids a breakfast. We’re going to stop giving kids a lunch when they need one? That sounds outrageous.
