CNN’s Jim Acosta Surrounded By Jeering Crowd At CPAC

The network’s White House correspondent had just arrived when a crowd surrounded him.

Video taken by Bloomberg reporter William Turton shows people chanting “CNN sucks!” while one woman urged the crowd, “Get him! Get him!”

“Sorry, I’m conducting an interview,” Acosta responded to the reporter’s initial question.

“When are you going to start covering Cuomo?” The Federalist reporter proceeded, repeating his initial question.

“We do,” Acosta replied before the reporter fired back, “No, I’m asking you a serious question.”

 “But, David, we do cover that. We have, too,” Acosta insisted.

Acosta responded to Turton’s video with a pointed joke.

Other Twitter users had strong opinions about the situation as well.

The Trumpist wing of the GOP—80% of the party faithful—is now an insurrectionist bloc that openly supports domestic terrorists and their leaders.

For media to go to CPAC and act like it’s 2010 is to refuse to acknowledge that CPAC is a dangerous nest of violent insurrectionists. https://t.co/uTkJj4ZGg1

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) February 26, 2021

This kind of thing is just utterly routine in contemporary conservative politics in a way that really demands more attention and self-reflection. https://t.co/F1kGid8KMG

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 26, 2021