{"id":571485,"date":"2021-06-23T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571485"},"modified":"2021-06-23T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:07:12","slug":"jim-acosta-i-hate-to-use-the-word-bullst-here-are-8-times-hes-used-it-since-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-acosta-i-hate-to-use-the-word-bullst-here-are-8-times-hes-used-it-since-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Acosta: \u2018I Hate To Use The Word \u2018Bulls**t.\u2019 Here are 8 Times He\u2019s Used It Since May"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fjim-acosta-i-hate-to-use-the-word-bullst-here-are-8-times-hes-used-it-since-may%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=571485&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Acosta.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Jim Acosta says he hates to use the word \u201cbulls**t,\u201d even as he has become one of the most proficient practitioners of profanity in cable news. Acosta proclaimed his reticence to use the phrase seconds before repeating the phrase for the fourth time in about an hour on Saturday\u2019s \u201cCNN Newsroom.\u201d Let\u2019s examine his professed discomfort with the scatological term.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta said he does not like to use the term during the 4 p.m. Eastern hour while assailing allegedly false stories from \u201cFox News \u2014 I mean, Fox television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to say it. I know nice people that work at Fox television, but it seems like an overall corporate failure to allow this irresponsible dangerous bullsh**t,\u201d Acosta <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2106\/19\/cnr.07.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cI hate to use that word. I\u2019m an old school guy. I hate to use that word,\u201d but Fox News\u2019 reporting is \u201cjust crazy nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But does he really hate to use that phrase? Let\u2019s examine the record:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Four times one hour earlier on June 19:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Acosta had just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jim-acosta-whose-network-employs-chris-cuomo-and-jeff-toobin-calls-fox-news-a-bulls-factory\">used<\/a> the term no fewer than four times in the previous hour\u2014three times on the air, once in writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>Now, you may recall I recently described Fox News as the bulls**t factory in honor of its steady stream of bogus segments aimed at ginning up your outrage. But Tucker has really outdone himself this week. I\u2019ve decided to award Tucker with the distinction of bulls**t factory employee of the month. Congrats, Tucker. You did it. Nobody bullsh**s like you when it comes to the insurrection. Nobody does it as good as you. Well, at least in the English language.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He then <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2106\/19\/cnr.06.html\">played<\/a> a clip of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=4Ftpd8XMMbA&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=4Ftpd8XMMbA&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Not content to use that word three times on the air, Acosta spread the bovine fecal matter to Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1406335609350803458\">writing<\/a>, \u201cEnough with the bulls**t from the crackpot caucus and their false flag excuses for January 6th\u2026\u201d along with a video clip of the segment. (He did not censor the term in his tweet.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9622641509434\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enough with the bullshit from the crackpot caucus and their false flag excuses for January 6th\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/otd1rRm5Sl\">https:\/\/t.co\/otd1rRm5Sl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1406335609350803458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4><strong>Once on June 10<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Acosta\u2019s imagination roamed back to the barnyard on the June 10 episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/podcasts\/jim-acosta-torches-fox-news-as-a-bullsht-factory-calls-tucker-carlson-a-race-baiting-tyrant\/\">Mediaite<\/a>\u2019s podcast,\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6r4gBCaDrGFGTmPdmc9rWZ?si=ddac08a143704261&#038;nd=1\">The Interview<\/a>.\u201d During the last question of the extended discussion, Acosta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jim-acosta-whose-network-employs-chris-cuomo-and-jeff-toobin-calls-fox-news-a-bulls-factory\">said<\/a> that CNN needs to cover the \u201ccockamamie\u201d stories reported by Fox News:<\/p>\n<p><em>What they\u2019ve decided to do since then is double down on being what I call the bulls*** factory. They churn out segments that gin up outrage that they know is going to piss off their viewers and so on, even if it\u2019s cockamamie, made-up nonsense. And they do it for the simple reason of attracting viewers and ginning up the ratings.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Twice on May 1<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Acosta first stepped in it on May 1, again while discussing CNN\u2019s more successful competitor, Fox News. \u201cYou may want to laugh this off,\u201d Acosta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KkwpCq8cuEE\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>But the lies these days are moving at the speed of light while spreading so much darkness. Take, for example, the uproar over this New York Post story that claimed that copies of a children\u2019s book were being given to migrant kids in their welcome kits. That tale from the border didn\u2019t just border on B.S. This was USDA grade A bulls**t.\u00a0And the reporter who wrote the story resigned claiming she was forced to make it up. But the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves at the bulls**t factory also known as Fox News.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Acosta calls Fox News the Bullshit Factory\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KkwpCq8cuEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable mentions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the Mediaite interview, Acosta quipped, \u201cIf you\u2019re complaining about the Deep State, you\u2019re probably in deep sh*t.\u201d He also once responded to a humorous tweet by texting \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-white-house-official-teases-cnns-acosta-ryan-saavedra\">F*** you<\/a>\u201d to the author.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Impact<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Acosta\u2019s transparent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/can-partisanship-and-profanity-save-cnn-from-its-ratings-collapse\">bias and regular recourse to profanity<\/a> have done nothing to improve CNN\u2019s ratings. The network now draws approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fox-news-draws-almost-three-times-as-many-viewers-as-cnn\">one-third as many viewers as Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Bottom line<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>All in all, Jim Acosta used the phrase \u201cbulls**t\u201d eight times during three appearances over six weeks. The last person to so brand himself with the phrase \u201cbulls**t\u201d was former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1992-02-03-mn-906-story.html\">made<\/a> the fecund phrase a staple of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/archive\/1991\/09\/15\/george-bush-s-worst-nightmare\/\">campaign speeches<\/a> during the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries.<\/p>\n<p>He was the third candidate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/1992\/3\/9\/harkin-to-quit-presidential-campaign-piowa\/\">drop out<\/a> of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Given the preponderance of the evidence, you might classify Acosta\u2019s claim that he hates using the word \u201cbullsh*t\u201d as pure \u2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Acosta says he hates to use the word \u201cbulls**t,\u201d even as he has become one of the most proficient practitioners of profanity in cable news. 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