JUST THINK OF HIM AS A DEMOCRAT OPERATIVE WITH A MICROPHONE, AND YOU WON’T BE WRONG. The Acosta of Freedom:

Showboats are nothing new. And there are plenty of reasons to criticize President Trump and his treatment of the press. But at what point does Jim Acosta betray his audience by putting his ego ahead of reporting the facts? He’s not telling a story. He’s becoming the story: the story of Jim Acosta’s crusade against Donald Trump. It’s not terribly interesting, and one has to wonder whether Acosta would be behaving similarly had Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

Perhaps a clue can be found in the “tough questions” the National Association of Hispanic Journalists says Acosta asked President Obama. Like this one, from a press conference in 2015:

And separately, sir, I wanted to ask you about what some people are calling ‘your best week ever’ last week. You had two Supreme Court decisions supportive of the Affordable Care Act and of gay rights. You also delivered a speech down in Charleston that was pretty warmly received. It seems that you’ve built up some political capital for the remaining months of your presidency. I’m curious, how you want to use it? What hard things do you want to tackle at this point?

“A voice for the people,” indeed.

Like Helen Thomas before him, Acosta is best thought of by GOP presidential spokesman as a unknowing ringer to score points off of – and that’s exactly how Stephen Miller treated him at the beginning of the month – armed with facts to Acosta’s performance art and poetry. Or as David Harsanyi quipped, “CNN’s Jim Acosta Read The Statue Of Liberty Poem, Had A Meltdown When Someone Suggested Immigrants Be Able To Read It, Too.”

Or heck, Trump himself today. Trump to CNN’s Jim Acosta: “I like real news, not fake news. You’re fake news.”

Which is why it’s come to this: #Hero: Jim Acosta Now Tweeting Out His Own Statements as Breathless Breaking News.

Nobody tell the DNC-MSM that Ron Burgundy and Ted Baxter aren’t how-to guides for brilliant journalisming.