Jim Acosta and the Laziness of Elite Opinion

Jim Acosta, you might have heard, is a newsman with a news network, and not just any news network, but a very serious news network.

On his show on Friday, he blasted Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his controversial commencement address, which is to be expected. What was particularly notable, though, was the contrast with Bill Maher, who, on his own show the same day, accurately quoted Butker’s remarks and said he didn’t see what’s “the big crime.”