{"id":1246217,"date":"2022-01-27T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1246217"},"modified":"2022-01-27T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:23:11","slug":"virginias-ag-slams-cnns-acosta-for-claiming-virginia-is-soviet-style-police-state-my-family-fled-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginias-ag-slams-cnns-acosta-for-claiming-virginia-is-soviet-style-police-state-my-family-fled-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia\u2019s AG Slams CNN\u2019s Acosta For Claiming Virginia Is \u2018Soviet-Style Police State\u2019: \u2018My Family Fled Cuba\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginias-ag-slams-cnns-acosta-for-claiming-virginia-is-soviet-style-police-state-my-family-fled-cuba%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1246217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slammed CNN host Jim Acosta on Wednesday night for suggesting that the commonwealth is now a \u201csoviet-style police state\u201d under Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia,\u201d Acosta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/virginia-critical-race-theory-masks-jason-miyares-jim-acosta-cuba-soviet-education\">said<\/a> on Tuesday night. \u201cHe was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jim-acosta-virginia-is-a-soviet-style-police-state-under-gov-youngkin\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Acosta accused Youngkin of \u201cpitting citizen against citizen\u201d immediately after playing a clip of the governor promising to remove \u201cinherently divisive teaching practices out of the schools.\u201d Acosta seemed outraged by removing the racially polarizing CRT curriculum from taxpayer-funded schools \u2014 the&nbsp;chief campaign promise&nbsp;made by Youngkin and&nbsp;Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears&nbsp;\u2014 which Acosta said violates \u201cthe traditional conservative tenets of liberty, anti-censorship and freedom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Acosta also slammed Youngkin for setting up a process for parents to complain if public school teachers violate the law by teaching racially divisive concepts, such as claiming all members of one race inherently oppress all members of other races.&nbsp;Acosta likened the measure to the&nbsp;Texas Heartbeat law, a&nbsp;pro-life protection&nbsp;that allows citizens to sue abortionists who perform an abortion after a&nbsp;fetal heartbeat&nbsp;can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy. \u201cHow concerned should we be, about these laws that seem to be catching on of, citizens ratting each other out?\u201d he asked Jong-Fast, adding they encourage \u201ccanceling your neighbor across the street or next door.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Miyares responded to Acosta\u2019s remarks during a Fox News interview with host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, saying, \u201cI think what Jim Acosta said \u2014 listen, my family fled Communist Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to talk about what \u2018Soviet-style\u2019 looks like? It\u2019s the opposite of freedom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo clearly, Jim Acosta maybe needs to take some history classes of what Soviet-style communism actually looks like. And [Virginia is] the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have said is parents matter. Listen, if you\u2019re a parent and you want to mask your child for six, seven, eight hours a day, you absolutely have that right. That\u2019s your individual decision,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe great irony of all this, is in Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, \u2018Your loyalty is to the state,\u2019 and parents have less control. This is about parental empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reported that Miyares\u2019 uncle had been arrested at night by communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro\u2019s secret police and that their home was \u201cnationalized: in the name of fairness and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slammed CNN host Jim Acosta on Wednesday night for suggesting that the commonwealth is now a \u201csoviet-style police state\u201d under Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. \u201cI seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia,\u201d Acosta said on Tuesday night. \u201cHe was running as a different kind of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}