UPDATED: Fox News host Sean Hannity is back to social media warring with CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta. This time, the subject is book sales.

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Hannity tweeted out about the new book from conservative talk show host Mark Levin this morning, in the process taking a swipe at Acosta (or #FakeNewsAcosta, as he hashtagged it) and his “garbage” book sales. Acosta’s new book is titled Enemy of the People, published by HarperCollins.

Acosta rose to the bait bag. He responded on Twitter by mocking Hannity’s reading glasses and claimed he didn’t have the “guts” to host him. In a callback to a previous dig, he used the hashtag #fauxmachoman.

The macho insults are a taunt that Acosta has used against Hannity and fellow Fox News host Tucker Carlson, both of whom have criticized his coverage. Hannity has claimed Acosta was “begging” to come on his show, but said, “Sorry, I won’t subject my audience to conspiracy theory fake news.”

Hannity continued the attacks on his Fox News show Thursday, joined by Levin as a guest. Hannity called Acosta’s book “a disaster” and “epic fail,” referring to him as “fake news CNN’s guy” while Levin called Acosta “a clown.”

And Hannity still wasn’t done; he carried on mocking his CNN rival on Twitter after the show. Here is the thread:

The Great one Mark Levin #1 on the NYTIMES best seller list 4 Weeks in a row. Congrats Mark. #FakeNewsAcosta spent most of yesterday at over 500 on Amazon. #EpicFail. Sales were garbage his first week, no wonder his reps are begging to be on my shows. — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 20, 2019

Somebody help Sean find his glasses. “The Enemy of the People” just made the NYT Best Seller List. Now if only Hannity had the guts to have me on his show. But we already know the answer to that one. #fauxmachoman https://t.co/GRTJYC2PIr — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 20, 2019

Jim Acosta

✔@Acosta

Somebody help Sean find his glasses. “The Enemy of the People” just made the NYT Best Seller List. Now if only Hannity had the guts to have me on his show. But we already know the answer to that one…. — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 21, 2019

.. Fake News Acosta, Mark Levin is kicking your Ass in book sales. Hundreds of thousands of books sold in 4 short weeks. You sold a little over 6500 books in week one. That is an #EpicFail. You work on the lowest rated network in all of cable news. — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 21, 2019

#EpicFail 2. You lie and peddle a hoax for 2 plus years, #EpicFail 3.

Stop begging to be on the number one show in all of Cable News, and 618 of the best talk radio stations in the country, again the answer is NO… — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 21, 2019