Since the beginning of the Trump administration, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta had become infamous for his out of control shouting, grandstanding, and childish antics during press briefings and other televised White House events. So, during a special appearance on the network’s Reliable Sources, Acosta defending his actions and at one point proclaimed that if he was sent to Hell, “I'll still be shouting at the Devil, is the way I look at it.”

With all the seriousness of a puff piece, host Brian Stelter began the segment by rhetorically asking, “Is he a reporter willing to shout out tough questions or someone grandstanding to boost his own profile?” After playing some clips of his colleague fighting with the administration, Stelter wondered, “So what is it like to be Jim Acosta? What is it like to come face-to-face with angry Trump supporters at rallies? Let’s ask him.”

The pair started by discussing Acosta’s recent attendance at a Trump rally in South Carolina where he was heckled by Trump supports and told to “go home, Jim” while someone held up a sign that read “CNN sucks.” Acosta told Stelter that people were actually really nice once they started talking to him one-on-one. Acosta insisted their opinions about him and CNN were corrupted and warped by Fox News.

“And by and large, what I find is that people are developing their impressions of us by watching Hannity and so on,” he asserted. Of course, Stelter agreed and said “pro-Trump media calls you fake news,” a “drama queen.” He also claimed to have written down instances where they used “slurs” and “curse words” against his colleague but refused to cite them.

Stelter pressed Acosta on the main complaint from his critics: That he acts that way for attention:

Point is, though, when you're in the back of the room like you were on Friday and you shout a question to Trump and he probably can't even hear it, isn't it true that you're kind of doing that just to get attention?

Acosta was shouting questions at Trump about changing his rhetoric about the press given the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper (as if Trump had anything to do with it). Acosta recalled the event but asserted it happened during “a moment towards the end of that event when he was walking towards us. And I thought, ‘well here's a chance to perhaps shout a question to him.’”

But that’s not true. The video shows that Trump was still towards the front of the room when Acosta started yelling. As the Federalist’s James Hasson put it on Twitter, “You yelled from the other side of a crowded room full of clapping people, you hack.”

Of course, Stelter did omit criticism from former CNN producer Steve Krakauer, who described the CNN correspondent’s actions on Friday as “truly an embarrassment, on multiple levels.” “Jim Acosta’s self-serving antics give all good journalists a bad name,” he added.

Acosta was acting all self-righteous earlier that same day for shouting those same questions and claiming the President refused to answer them. In reality, the President was across the White House lawn and Marine One’s rotors were still roaring.

“Now, of course, if they're not going to take our questions we have to find opportunities to ask those questions,” Acosta indignantly proclaimed. “Kind of like Sam Donaldson did decades ago,” Stelter added, exaggerating Acosta’s relevance.

The relevant portions of the transcript are below, click "expand" to read: