Fox’s Kevin Corke Launches Thinly Veiled Attack on CNN’s Jim Acosta and WHPC For Chasing ‘Gotcha Moments’ In First Trump Term

 

Fox News’ Kevin Corke ripped journalists for chasing their “gotcha moment” during White House press conferences during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, including CNN’s Jim Acosta, though he refused to actually reference Acosta by name.

On Tuesday’s Fox & Friends, Corke clearly referenced Acosta and his behavior in the White House press room, but Corke refused to actually name the CNN anchor after referencing a journalist “refusing” to give the microphone back to White House officials. In November 2018, Acosta held onto a microphone a White House aide was trying to take back as he questioned Trump. The then-president called Acosta a “rude, terrible person.”

Corke predicted a much calmer White House press room in Trump’s second term.

“Basically what we are probably going to see a lot more of is people just trying to get to the meat and potatoes of what’s happening. Can you interrogate a press secretary fairly without trying to make yourself the story. There are a lot of people — and, listen, I was covering the Trump White House during that era,” Corke said. “And I think we can all name some names of people who really wanted their gotcha moment. People holding the microphone at press conferences when they were supposed to let it go. I won’t mention any names.”

“We don’t mention the names unless they want us to,” Katie Pavlich added.

“I think [what we’ll see], hopefully, at least based on what I have seen in the pressroom of late, is more serious journalists, people who just want to get answers to questions. We can only hope for the best, especially when I think back to what Sarah Huckabee Sanders endured, just sort of the vitriol, I think that’s a change that we’ll probably not have to see again,” Corke said.

Pavlich argued some press outlets have a lot of ground to recover because they have a “big credibility” problem, citing the coverage of concerns about President Joe Biden’s age before he dropped his reelection bid.

“The press has a big credibility problem,” Pavlich said.

“Huge,” Corke responded.

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Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.