There may be no creature on Earth lower than Jim Acosta. You may remember his interminable badgering and hectoring of President Trump during his first term. Trump showed more restraint at his antics than I would have expected, far more. He even managed to restrain himself when a court ruled that he could not, on his authority as the president, expel the troublesome tosser from the White House press pool.
This might have been the supreme example of Acosta’s arrogance and entitled-ness: demanding that Sarah Sanders, then the White House press secretary, contradict her boss in public:
CNN fired Acosta awhile ago, perhaps out of recognition that he was the opposite of an asset to their viewership and sponsorship. But one of his ilk doesn’t disappear quietly these days. (Cf. Keith Olbermann) He’s sought out alternative channels by which to pump his vitriol into the national discourse. And of course, as there are many today, he’s found one:
Jim Acosta: The real worry is the right’s “exploitation" of Charlie Kirk’s death causing violence.
CNN presented this loathsome, unhinged radical as an “anchor” for years:
“There's exploitation going on of his death and it's happening on the right and it's absolutely… pic.twitter.com/TqCvYIPhgY
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 11, 2025
It would be foolish to expect Acosta to focus on the actual impact of the Charlie Kirk assassination. No, his bent compels him to look for a way to downplay the actual killing in favor of his political allies. So he trumpets that the Right is exploiting the atrocity!
This is not something to dismiss with a growl. Acosta is something of a standard-bearer for his ilk. He may be the most obnoxious of them, but he represents their attitudes and preferences very well. His approach has already been adopted by other Left-aligned commentators in the mainstream media.
That’s the Leftist approach to anything terrible their allies precipitate. They don’t reflect on causes and consequences. No, it’s always “Republicans Pounce,” or something to that effect.
It’s been clear from all the open Leftist jubilation over Charlie Kirk’s death that the killing of an effective conservative activist gladdens their hearts. A few have actually said that they wish it had been their deed, rather than that of an as-yet-unknown assassin. Do we really need any more evidence that they’re at war with us? Real, flying-lead, take-no-prisoners war in which Charlie Kirk’s death is something to celebrate?
Other conservative activists have been pondering whether they should adjust their schedules, perhaps take additional security measures. May God watch over all of them at every moment. It’s clear that the cream-pie phase of this struggle is over.
As distasteful as it is, we must keep watch on the mainstream media and their favored mouthpieces. Yes, they’re wounded and falling back, but “a wounded lion is a lion still.” If the Acostan message – i.e., that what matters most about Charlie Kirk’s death is how the GOP can benefit from it – should gain traction, the national discourse will be twisted to their advantage yet again. It wouldn’t be the first time the reptiles of the Left have pulled the rhetorical rug out from under us.
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Acosta is, and has been, no more than an irritant, a burr under the saddle, which makes one’s horse restive until the burr is taken out. There are real threats, such as Maoist Antifa, or which it appears Kirk’s murderer was one. It’s ironic that he did his deed in a state where he may eventually face a firing squad, poetic justice indeed. We have to know, and identify, down to getting real intelligence on the identity and movements of the real threats, who use bullets and bombs to achieve their ends. Acosta is little more than a Howard Stern-like shock jock, that’s how he makes his money, he inspires the liberal equivalent of the blowhard Right with his talk, to do little more than write inflammatory prose, and rarely if at all act on it. There are real threats out there, and those are the revolutionary Communist Antifa, whose aim is to kick off a shooting war, and then sneak off to cover, to let comparative innocents take the consequences for their actions. You can see this in demonstrations, the Antifa will come out from behind a line of grannies and children, strike, and do their bad deeds, and then quickly fall back behind their human shields. This is the same tactic used by Hamas and every such outfit, and it is highly successful – any strike back will hit the shields, to be used for effective propaganda, it is an essential part of this tactic that people taking photographs and videos are used, to create an uproar against the defensive response.
“They kill one (1) of ours, we kill three (3) of theirs IMMEDIATELY, without reference to Theirs being of roughly equivalent social/cultural/financial stature, political relevance, or importance with Ours, just…one of Ours, three of Theirs, every time without fail, without exception, period fucking DOT” – and this is precisely what the Antifa seek, a generalized lawless response which hits indiscriminately, allowing the creation of many bloody red shirts to wave, to really kick things off, and create the violent revolution the Maoists have as a centerpiece of their philosophy: “And it is a universal truth that never has the old ruling class willingly stepped aside, but on the contrary it has always used the most vicious and desperate means to preserve its dominant position and could be swept aside only by violent revolution. In short, all forms of governing class-divided society, whatever their outer shell, have always in essence represented the dictatorship–the political domination backed up by armed force–of one class or another; and the forward, upward march of humanity has, since the time classes and states emerged, taken place only through the overthrow of the old state–the dictatorship of the old ruling class–and its replacement by a new state–the dictatorship of the new ruling class.” https://revcom.us/a/v21/1040-049/1048/prog1.htm
Some study of Antifa tactics will reveal a definite hierarchy and command structure, very definite leadership vanguards, and lieutenants to exercise control over the mass of people they bring to the affray – and these lieutenants can be easily spotted, they wear bright colored scarves or hats – usually people wearing bright red are cadre. Taking three of the mass indiscriminately feeds into the propaganda and will be exploited to maximum effect – but if the leadership vanguard is taken out, or if the lieutenants are neutralized, that cuts the head and the arms off of the beast. The task therefore is to identify the leadership and the lieutenants and the major actors, and deal with them. That’s why Ukrainian irregulars have been so successful in stopping the Russian army, they go after the command structure and communications and direction, and cut them off – and the troops utterly lack discipline and direction, and become an unorganized and ineffective mass, little more than cannon fodder for the Ukrainians in the front, and the Chechens, behind, who are in place to shoot stragglers and those who might try to move to the rear.
Indiscriminate killing and armed action are thus a grave mistake, they feed into the enemy’s tactics and advance his goals. The hard work of intelligence must be done, to get after the command and control structures – only in that case is there the possibility of success.