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GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
BY JOE CONCHA - 01/12/17 09:32 AM EST 183
Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) slammed CNN's Jim Acosta on Twitter, demanding the reporter "be fired" for being "disruptive and disrespectful" to President-elect Donald Trump.
Weber's tweet comes after Acosta demanded he be allowed to ask Trump a question after the president-elect slammed CNN for running a report stating he had been briefed on information in an unverified, uncorroborated dossier claiming the Russian government had compromising information on him.
"Your organization is terrible," Trump told Acosta when he tried to ask a question.
"You're attacking us. Can you give us a question?” Acosta replied.
"Don't be rude. No, I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news," Trump responded, pointing at Acosta, before calling on a reporter from Breitbart.
After the press conference, Acosta said on air that he knew at the beginning CNN likely wouldn't get to ask a question. He said Trump had initially pointed to him but then gestured with a wave that signaled he wouldn’t call on him for a question.
“I felt it was only fair that if our news organization is going to be attacked, that we get a chance to ask a follow-up question about what Donald Trump was talking about,” Acosta said.
Weber, who represents Texas's 14th Congressional District, supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for president until he dropped out of the primary race in April.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
I wonder how Randy feels about Joe Wilson heckling the President of the United States during the State of the Union address?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
You know, for a country that claims to have free speech we certainly see a lot of "they should be fired" "deport them" "stop them at the border"....so are there qualifiers? Is there some speech that's okay? Does that speech happen to be the type of speech that coincides with your feelings on the matter?
Sure, we have free speech.
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Re: GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
Well, if we're bent on moving toward authoritarian rule instead of democracy, then discrediting and/or muffling the press is a priority. Any dictator knows that. 
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Re: GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
This is the Republican Party in 2017. Get used to it.
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Re: GOP lawmaker says CNN reporter should be fired
Hyprocrite !
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