Jim Acosta Sounds Almost Exactly Like Me

So an interesting thing happened this afternoon while I was watching the news today. I have my own media news site where I blog mostly about culture/TV and sometimes politics. As you can imagine they intertwine pretty much all the time. I know for a fact that it gets some good traffic in Hollywood & Media circles. I get home and have Wolf Blitzer on as background noise while cooking dinner.

12:30 or so I tweeted this out: #CelebrityApprentice: The Pardon Edition. Then I make a blog post talking about the Pardon Edition itself. I post it up at 2 PM. Full disclosure: I'm just starting how to use twitter, so it's not like I'm insanely popular on there yet.

Acosta starts his review of the days events, now remember this is 5 PM at this point. Saying this:

There's a new episode of President Trump's White House version of The Apprentice. This time it's the Presidential Pardon Edition.

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OK not word for word, but kinda eerie, right?

Then a few seconds later Acosta continues:

It sounded like he was contemplating a new reality TV catchphrase, not, "you're fired," but, "you're pardoned."

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What did I write at the end of the opening paragraph on my blog post?

Donald Trump seems like he is directing an episode of the Celebrity Apprentice. Although instead of saying, “You’re fired,” he’s saying, “You’re welcome.”

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Yea, that's not word for word either but I think the similarities are striking.

Remember this happened three hours after I posted my post.

Either:

1. I think almost exactly like Jim Acosta (not sure how to feel about that)
2. It's all a coincidence and I'm just up to date hours before CNN is
3. Whoever he heard it from/his writing staff read my stuff
4. Jim Acosta read and/or stole my material

This whole thing just struck me as extremely odd. This almost never happens to me, where I find myself parroting someone or they parrot me word for word. I might agree with them, but we never repeat ourselves word for word. I try to be as original as possible w/my ideas or responses in debates.

For Reference: Here is the Jim Acosta summary: (Wolf Blitzer show full hour clip): start it at minute 1:42 to get to the good stuff.



My site: Conservatives Attack Bill Maher and Samantha Bee While Trump Directs Celebrity Apprentice: The Pardon Edition You can see Acosta went into more detail than I did, but the similarities are clear.

What do you guys make of this?

NeverTrumpGOP said:

So an interesting thing happened this afternoon while I was watching the news today. I have my own media news site where I blog mostly about culture/TV and sometimes politics. As you can imagine they intertwine pretty much all the time. I know for a fact that it gets some good traffic in Hollywood & Media circles. I get home and have Wolf Blitzer on as background noise while cooking dinner.

12:30 or so I tweeted this out: #CelebrityApprentice: The Pardon Edition. Then I make a blog post talking about the Pardon Edition itself. I post it up at 2 PM. Full disclosure: I'm just starting how to use twitter, so it's not like I'm insanely popular on there yet.

Acosta starts his review of the days events, now remember this is 5 PM at this point. Saying this: OK not word for word, but kinda eerie, right?

Then a few seconds later Acosta continues: What did I write at the end of the opening paragraph on my blog post?
Yea, that's not word for word either but I think the similarities are striking.

Remember this happened three hours after I posted my post.

Either:

1. I think almost exactly like Jim Acosta (not sure how to feel about that)
2. It's all a coincidence and I'm just up to date hours before CNN is
3. Whoever he heard it from/his writing staff read my stuff
4. Jim Acosta read and/or stole my material

This whole thing just struck me as extremely odd. This almost never happens to me, where I find myself parroting someone or they parrot me word for word. I might agree with them, but we never repeat ourselves word for word. I try to be as original as possible w/my ideas or responses in debates.

For Reference: Here is the Jim Acosta summary: (Wolf Blitzer show full hour clip): start it at minute 1:42 to get to the good stuff.



My site: Conservatives Attack Bill Maher and Samantha Bee While Trump Directs Celebrity Apprentice: The Pardon Edition You can see Acosta went into more detail than I did, but the similarities are clear.

What do you guys make of this?

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Knowing what I know about that skunk, I'm betting on #4) he stole your stuff.

He's ripping you off. Or, rather, his writers are ripping you off. I don't think Acosta, himself, is smart enough to come up with the idea...or the words he speaks on his show.

However, his writers are careful enough to change it just enough to you can't come after them.

That sucks. Sorry.

Given that the exact same thing was tweeted many times starting shortly after D'Souza's pardon was announced, the chances that Acosta stole it from NTGOP (rather than someone else) is slim.

https://twitter.com/search?q=celebrity apprentice pardon edition&src=typd

Looks like tweets containing those words started around noon.

I think it's a great analogous term, but I also think it is not so unique that others couldn't come up with it using their own connection to the subject matter.

I must admit though, that I saw the same CNN piece live, and the phrase immediately caught my attention and I liked it!

Chomsky said:

I think it's a great analogous term, but I also think it is not so unique that others couldn't come up with it using their own connection to the subject matter.

I must admit though, that I saw the same CNN piece live, and the phrase immediately caught my attention and I liked it!

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Yeah it reminded me of House of Cards in the first season when Frank Underwood manipulated the media into saying, "trickle down diplomacy."

There might be a bit of Oooooo-woooo-woo.
It's happened to me a couple of times.

This has happened to me also. Take it as an example of Great Minds Think Alike

We're all tuned in to the basic pool of knowledge, and the terms popular in the culture, so coming up with the same combination is not really out of the realm of probability. But it is eerie!

JMR said:

But it is eerie!

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Thanks. That's exactly what I thought. I had the wind knocked out me for a good couple of hours after I heard that. Went through the five stages etc... lolz.

On the occasions where it happens to me, I am reminded of this Albert Brooks scene in "Broadcast News".



Makes the wife laugh pretty hard whenever it happens.

"I say it HERE, it comes out THERE!" :lamo