...CNN's showboating White House correspondent...’s new book. I’ve already been snookered by a slick carnival barker once, back when I was a young man at the Feast of San Gennaro. No need to pay money twice for the same old sleight of hand.
The grifter’s trick is to show you one thing while making you think you’re seeing another. Acosta is pitching a book called "The Enemy of the People" and he wants you to think he is "the people." He isn’t. Is he "The Enemy of the People"? That’s giving him too much credit, but he is the enemy of the truth.
I’ve already written about Acosta numerous times, and included in my book "The Media Matrix" an essay titled "Jim Acosta and the Hubris of Celebrity Journalism" that first appeared at RealClearPolitics. The premise is simple ‐ that news hounds like Acosta have an entitlement mentality. In other words, they have made the mistake of reading their own positive press and thinking they are indispensable. Actually they are just insufferable.
That was on full display in the excerpt CNN published from Acosta’s book last week. What you get is one part self-righteousness, one part self-serving quotes from anonymous sources, one part presumption of Trump’s guilt, and one part hysteria.