A day after he offered a tired assertion that it was “surreal” that he and his media colleagues were questioning the White House about President Trump’s mental stability, CNN chief White House correspondent and carnival barker Jim Acosta was back on Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom offering another lengthy diatribe and meltdown to the delight of his colleagues.

In four-and-a-half minutes, Acosta attacked the Daily Caller for a “softball” question to the President, bashed Trump for spreading a “virus” around the world that the media has a liberal bias, and even suggested conservatives have a bigger media and social media influence than liberals.

Acosta began with the topic of Daily Caller White House correspondent Saagar Enjeti’s question to President Trump concerning the Democratic Party and socialism. In what was Acosta’s latest hissy fit for not receiving a question, Acosta attacked “a reporter with The Daily Caller right at the very end” who brought up the left’s extreme policy proposals.

“You know, it was the question was asked in a way that really teed it up like a game of tee ball here in the Rose Garden. The President was just sort of served up a softball there when he was asked, you know, whether or not the Democrats are advancing a lot of socialist ideas,” Acosta complained.

Reacting on Twitter to Acosta, Enjeti dropped the hammer: “I tried something novel. Rather than tell the President what was happening on a particular issue, I asked him to tell me.” What an idea!

Acosta blathered on for a few more minutes before arriving at how both President Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro knocked the news media during the press conference. To Acosta, this served as more evidence that the President’s “virus” is spreading (click “expand”):

[T]his is something that we've seen since President Trump came into office, called this network fake news, has referring to the press as the enemy of the people and so on is that this is a virus that is spreading around the world. When you have the President of the Brazil calling the press fake news, he is — he is trying to essentially, you know, in a sycophantic sort of way, suck up to the President of the United States. There's no other way of putting it and trying to emulate him down as they call him in Brazil as the Trump of the tropics. You know, this is — this is another example of when the President of the United States says something here in the U.S. referring to the press as fake news, referring to the press in other derogatory terms, other leaders around the world, other governments around the world are listening and Jair Bolsonaro proved that to all of us here in this Rose Garden news conference, Brooke.

Host Brooke Baldwin attempted to interject, but Acosta wasn’t done airing his petty grievances. He seemed exasperated that Trump “talked about this conservative grievance that they're being discriminated against in social media” that, to this CNN character, is false.

Acosta’s evidence? Well, Trump having “a gazillion Twitter followers” and “a massive presence on Instagram, has a massive presence on Fakebook — Facebook.” as do “do lots of other conservative figures here in the U.S.”

Acosta concluded with, well, fake news:

[H]e likes to talk about how there's this media collusion game that is stacked against him when he has one of the most powerful social media voices throughout and so I think that just has to be said as well, it has to be put on the record that he is sort of, you know, pulling a three card monty in terms of, you know, how he's describing the situation. Conservatives aren't being discriminated and abused on social media. They have just as much of a landscape that they dominate as the left does and — and one could argue that they have a much bigger footprint when it comes to social media and the media landscape by and large, Brooke.

For regular or even infrequent readers of NewsBusters, alarm bells should be going off for just how idiotic of a statement this was by Acosta. The easy answer to is to go check out any of the work by our colleagues at MRC TechWatch or the Free Speech Alliance, but here’s a few specific examples of online censorship:

And as for liberal media bias, well, either check out our Media Reality Checks, hit the backspace button to the NewsBusters homepage, or click on the logo at the top of page. It’s safe to say you’ll find more than enough evidence from just Tuesday alone that’ll nuke Acosta’s pontificating.

To see the relevant transcript from March 19's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, click “expand.”