CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta is wrong. Saagar Enjeti's question to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil on Tuesday was both justified and sensible. The Daily Caller's White House reporter asked Bolsonaro how the election of a socialist president might alter his policy towards the U.S.
The Brazilian president's interest in U.S. relations is focused on closer economic and national security partnerships. The socialistic policies now being promoted by top 2020 Democratic presidential aspirants would feasibly weaken the U.S. military, damage the U.S. economy, and obstruct trade opportunities with Brazil. In that sense, Bolsonaro would have good rationale to think more cautiously of U.S. engagement under a Democratic president.
Enjeti thus deserves credit for raising the question. Acosta sees it differently. He described Enjeti's question as a "softball."
Jim Acosta criticizes the questions asked by Daily Caller reporter @esaagar: The question was asked in a way that really tee'd it up like a game of tee-ball here in the Rose Garden. The president was just sort of served up a softball there... pic.twitter.com/3l7CliDmTV
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 19, 2019
Acosta does himself and his network no service by attacking another journalist with such a petulant rebuke. Yes, Enjeti gets called on by the president quite frequently. And yes, there's a good argument to make that CNN's staple of White House reporters deserve more questions. We are a democracy of pluralistic viewpoints, after all.
But Enjeti is a good reporter and one who always asks pertinent questions of political import. Just before his question for Bolsonaro, Enjeti asked President Trump two very relevant questions about Democrats wanting to expand the Supreme Court and California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes' lawsuit against Twitter.
Suggesting otherwise without merit, Acosta lends to the idea that his interest is not in straight news reporting, but rather in opinion messaging.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/saagar-enjeti-deserves-better-than-jim-acostas-scorn
2019-03-19 19:16:00Z
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