CNN's Jim Acosta recently
tweeted out a picture of himself receiving a shot of a coronavirus vaccine, but
it clearly wasn’t a spontaneous gesture. The always unsubtle Acosta went for virtue-signaling
and self-congratulation in an epic and almost unprecedented way. Incredibly, CNN’s
Chief Domestic Correspondent (CDC?) and Newsroom Saturday and Sunday anchor
wore a T-shirt listing his 2020 journalistic exploits to receive his COVID-19 vaccine…and made sure
it was clearly readable in his tweet.
The shirt stated: "In
2020, I covered the impeachment trial & a caucus night (that lasted a week)
& the primaries & the covid pandemic & the economic crash & the
racial justice protests & Lafayette Square & so many rallies & the
death of RBG (Justice Rush Bader Ginsburg) & the president's 1AM
coronavirus diagnosis & a Supreme Court confirmation & an election
night (that lasted a week) & things by tweet & the recounts & the
presidential transition & I have a commemorative shirt to prove it."
The man actually virtue-signaled his virtue-signaling. Acosta accompanied the
picture with the message, "Just the shot in the arm I needed. The latest
studies show the Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective. Please do your part to
end this pandemic. Get your shot!"
Maybe everyone who gets
vaccinated should put that fact on their shirts, like an “I voted” sticker writ
large. In fact, if Democrats have their way, anyone who wishes to vote might have
to get vaccinated. So the shirts could read, “I got vaccinated and I
voted!”
One might think that, since
Democrats don’t believe people should even have to produce an I.D. to vote, it
might be hard for them to explain why they would insist that people acquiesce
to a government-mandated injection of an unvetted and potentially harmful
foreign substance into their bodies to do so.
Except for the fact that so
many Americans are the product of Big Academia’s indoctrination centers and the
fake news media and appear to be as docile and undiscerning as sheep.
Maybe Acosta is on to
something. Who wouldn’t like to read what Donald Trump’s T-shirt would, ahem,
trumpet? Or compare Acosta’s shirt to one that George Washington or Abraham
Lincoln could have produced. George first: “I helped defeat the largest
military on Earth with a ragtag bunch of militia, some of whom had no
shoes..and without a navy…in a war that went on for 8 years & founded a
nation & became its first president & declined to be king &…”
Abe next: “I saved the Union that George founded & emancipated the
slaves &…”
Perhaps each of us should put
our daily accomplishments on our shirts for all to see. Mine might read
something like: “I worked hard today & then went to the store for
groceries & then came home and replaced a burnt-out light bulb & ate
dinner with my family & asked the kids how their day was & turned on
the television but that clown Acosta was on so I quickly changed the channel
& then I wrote this post & finally went to bed.”
Should there ever be a
vaccine effective in preventing the spread of stupidity, ego-centrism
and vapidity, I might be all for it. It might be just the shot in the arm this
country needs.
Unfortunately, it’s too late
for those in the media like Mr. Acosta and in government like Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.
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