By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | NoisyRoom.net

CNN political analyst April Ryan has always been a partisan hack, but this time she outdid herself. She is proclaiming that Jim Acosta’s life was in danger at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida last Tuesday because the crowd was chanting “CNN sucks!” and other colorful, yet accurate statements about CNN and Jim Acosta in general. She’s insinuating that the chanting was a death threat against Acosta. She must have it confused with all the violence coming from the left, communists and Antifa these days. Acosta stated that he did not feel like he was in America and expressed that he is “very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt.” But no word of concern from Acosta on Trump supporters being beaten by leftist radicals on numerous occasions at various locations across the country.

On Don Lemon’s show, Ryan accused Sanders of “lying” from the press podium, saying, “That podium is no place to play. You don’t play with words or moments. That’s a serious moment and a serious place. And Jim Acosta’s life – in my opinion — was in jeopardy that night. There was a safety issue.” You blithering idiot, the only danger here is from Acosta himself and his big mouth. Another brain-trust from CNN, Brian Stelter, has accused Trump of leading a “hate movement” against the mainstream media. And CNN’s David Gergen even said that blood will be on Trump’s hands if there is violence committed against mainstream media journalists. What about the blood on the media’s hands as Trump supporters were sucker punched and beaten with eggs and rocks in San Jose? Remember that? I have seen no violence against these media propagandists, but I’ve sure seen Trump people get harassed, beaten, stalked and threatened.

Ryan is also stating that reporters such as herself need security like the Secret Service detail White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders received after a left-wing Virginia restaurant owner kicked her out of his establishment along with her family. The restaurant owner than promptly followed the White House press security to her in-law’s next destination and harassed and organized protests against her family. That’s laughable… the only protective detail Ryan needs is one to keep her from making a fool of herself. Oops… too late. Ryan thinks way too highly of herself.

Ryan had the nerve to claim that Trump “has stoked the flames for reporters to feel like they are in jeopardy.” That sounds exactly like what Dan Rather said the other day and we all know what a fibber that guy is. “Their lives, their safety is in jeopardy. Their lives are in jeopardy at these rallies,” Ryan insisted. “And something has got to stop.” Well, you could start with putting an end to the lying by the media. Just a thought. Maybe the media wouldn’t be treated like an enemy of the American people if they would quit acting like one. When Lemon said “many journalists” need security now because of Trump’s rhetoric, Ryan replied: “I am raising my hand. I am one of those.” Oh, is poor Ryan afraid of Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Sounds like she needs a tissue, a blankie and a safe place to hide. SMH.

All of Ryan’s stupidity stems from Acosta getting into a heated argument with Sanders at Thursday’s White House press briefing over Trump’s comments that the media are the “enemy of the people.” Acosta posted videos of Trump supporters mocking and jeering at him earlier in the week at a Trump rally. I have never heard this much whining from the media before. Because people disagree with them and take offense at them lying, they are trying to twist current events into seeing them as the victim here. It’s mindblowing.

Here is the complete transcript of this moronic exchange:

CNN Tonight

August 1, 2018

10:28 p.m. Eastern

DON LEMON: The Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders, held a press briefing at the White House today finally for only the — it was only the fourth time in a month. It’s no secret that the White House’s relationship with the press is terrible and we know why. It’s because this administration is waging a war on journalism and the truth and Sarah Sanders fights her battles from the podium. Just today, she was asked about our Jim Acosta, our very own Jim Acosta, being heckled at a Trump rally Tuesday night and instead of actually answering, she makes this baffling and false, by the way, claim and then she dug way back two decades to find it. Watch.

SARAH HUCKABEE-SANDERS: We support a free press, but there also comes a high level of responsibility with that. The media routinely reports on classified information and government secrets that put lives in danger and risks valuable national security tools. This has happened both in our administration and in past administrations. One of the worst cases was the reporting on the U.S. ability to listen to Osama Bin Laden’s satellite phone in the late ’90s. Because of that reporting, he stopped using that phone and the country lost valuable intelligence.

LEMON: So that story is just not true. It was debunked years ago, despite the claim having been made by President George W. Bush and the 9/11 Commission. The media reported that Osama Bin laden was known to use — known to use a satellite phone, something that was widely known at the time and had been previously reported. By the time it was reported that the U.S. might be able to monitor that phone, Bin Laden was already scaling back use of those devices. It is quite a stretch to go back two decades to a debunked story to try to defend the behavior we all saw last night. Are you supporting a free press if you spread falsehood — excuse me — if you spread lies from the podium? And does the President support a free press, if he also supports the people who try to stop journalists from doing their jobs? The President retweeted a video of his fans booing Acosta at his rally Tuesday night, sharing an instance of open hostility to the media with his 53 million Twitter followers. The Trump rally gets ugly, his supporters our reporter doing a job, calling him a traitor and a liar. What does the President do? Well, re-tweet a video in support of the hecklers. That’s why when asked a second time if the White House condemns what happened to Jim Acosta, she’s given a second chance to actually support press freedom, Sanders refuses.

DAVID MARTOSKO: I said no one was being violent last night in terms of hitting anybody, and no broadcaster was broadcasting state secrets. They were trying to do stand-ups at a public rally and you had people yell over them, preventing them from doing their jobs, and yelling that their network sucks on live TV. Do you support that or not?

SARAH SANDERS: Look, while sup — while we certainly support freedom of the press, we also support freedom of speech, and we think that those things go hand in hand.

LEMON: April Ryan is here, CNN political analyst. Boy oh, boy, lowest common denominator —

APRIL RYAN: Denominator, yes.

LEMON: — and then to have it defended from the podium, the most esteemed podium in the world. So what do you think? Why would she go back to a story that’s been debunked years and years ago about the satellite phone?

RYAN: You know why?

LEMON: About Bin Laden?

APRIL RYAN: Because she’s trying to justify, trying to justify the irrational, trying to justify foolishness. There was no cause for that and she’s playing to this base that listens to the President. They need this to rally behind the President because this President is embattled. So when this President is embattled, he either goes to sports or talks about the knee, or he goes to the press, or he goes to some other things that just make his base get into frenzy and forget all the other stuff. That’s what it is. It’s a big shiny silver ball at the detriment of free press.

LEMON: You have been at the White House for what? 20 years now.

RYAN: Twenty one.

LEMON: Twenty one. For Republican and Democratic administrations.

RYAN: Yes.

LEMON: Right? I am sure this is very different. Do you sit in that room — again as I said, the most esteemed podium in the world and do you just sit there and say, I cannot believe that someone is standing here lying to the American media —

RYAN: Yes.

LEMON: — and the American people?

RYAN: Yes. Yes

LEMON: Or trying to gaslight them.

RYAN: Yes.

LEMON: Do you — is it surreal to you to sit there every day, because it’s surreal to watch on?

RYAN: Don, I am going to say this to you. Today, when she said that, I couldn’t believe when she was talking about, you know, how we get leaked information. We don’t just — the press, we don’t just walk into an office and open files and take leaked information and report it. Our sources are giving it to us, giving it to us willingly because they’re whistleblowers and for her to assume or to say that we are just gathering — no. She’s not — she’s changing the facts. If you want to say she’s lying, she’s lying and I agree with that. It was shameful today. That podium is no place to play. You don’t play with words. You don’t play with moments. Everything comes to the White House from water piece and everything in between. That’s a, serious moment and a serious place. And Jim Acosta’s life, in my opinion, was in jeopardy that night. There was a safety issue and you know she gets run out of a hen house a couple weeks ago and gets Secret Service detail.

LEMON: Yeah. We don’t have Secret Service detail.

RYAN: Jim Acosta — that’s what I’m saying. And this President, this President, President Donald J. Trump has stoked the flames for reporters to feel like they are in jeopardy. Their lives, their safety is in jeopardy. Their lives are in jeopardy at these rallies and something has got to stop. She gets taxpayer-funded — she gets taxpayer-funded security for something that she stokes.

LEMON: Yeah.

RYAN: But yet, it’s okay. It’s freedom of speech for us. It is not right and I talked to Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush, and we had our back and forth quite a bit, you know and I have had back and forths with even Robert Gibbs. But it never — it was always a friendly adversarial situation. It was never personal. This has now gone beyond politics. This has gone into life. This has gone into changing lives.

LEMON: But here’s the thing that I have to say, a couple things here. Number one, we don’t begrudge her security or anyone who has Secret Service.

RYAN: Oh no, I’m not begrudging her. Yeah.

LEMON: They need it, and many journalists need it now because of what this President and this administration are doing now, right?

RYAN: I am raising my hand. I am one of those.

LEMON: Okay. Yes, so a lot of us are. But you know it started with lock her up. You know, build a wall and all of these unseemly chants and now it is CNN sucks. It’s not about CNN. It’s just about the behavior. Like, you understand, it’s “oh, CNN is whining because they’re —” it’s not. If they had said it about any other network or any other person in the crowd, any other entity, we would be having this conversation, because this is supposed to be a dignified, respectful place to do the American people’s business —

RYAN: But Don — yeah.

RYAN: — and he says what you’re reading and hearing, what you’re seeing, or whatever, it’s not true. And so further stoking that.

RYAN: But see here’s the problem and people want to listen to the now and listen to this President and be entertained by him and they talk about patriotism and talk about the constitution in this country. But they forget. Before they talk about you know the guns, Second Amendment, there’s the First amendment that beat out the Second Amendment, the First Amendment. And within that First Amendment is freedom of the press. The Founding Fathers put into the Constitution, this accountability piece. You know, if the checks and balances over here between executive, legislative, and judicial branches don’t work, you still have a press that ask questions, to find out, to give transparency to a situation that — or — or —

LEMON: A check.

RYAN: — initiatives or something.

LEMON: Checks and balances. A check on our government.

RYAN: Yes, yes.

LEMON: I’ve — I’ve got to go and it’s there for a reason, April, that it’s the first one. It’s in the first one.

RYAN: It’s in the first one.

LEMON: Yes. Thank you. I appreciate it.

RYAN: Thank you.

LEMON: Thank you.