CNN's Collins asked if journalists would ever "fire back" at Grampy: "Maybe, I don't know. Never say never, I guess."

[Miles Archer]

During an interview with Andy Cohen for Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday, Cohen asked Collins about Trump calling female reporters “stupid” and “pigs,” and asked if a journalist would ever “break” and fire back at the president.

“Maybe, I don’t know, right?” Collins replied. “Never say never, I guess. But I mean, I truly think as a reporter, you shouldn’t make it about yourself.”

Anderson Cooper also covered the issue on his show, saying Trump had done something “completely unwarranted” by “verbally attacking” Collins when she “did nothing to him ahead of it... at this point she was simply standing there doing her job.”

During an interview with Andy Cohen for Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday, Cohen asked Collins about Trump calling female reporters “stupid” and “pigs,” and asked if a journalist would ever “break” and fire back at the president.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kaitlan-collins-comments-on-worst-part-of-trumps-rant/

[Ocelot II]

1. Maybe it's time journalists and reporters did make it about themselves.

If any of them were to fire back at Trump and defend themselves against his insults they would be defending their profession and their function as defenders of free speech, not themselves personally. So please do make it about "yourself," Caitlin, because that's not what you'd be doing anyhow. I'd love to see someone, especially one of the women he so especially delights in tormenting, get right back in his face. So what if he retaliates by banning them from press conferences or AF1? We've already seen that when people fight back they win, either directly or indirectly (Kimmel, Colbert, etc.).

[mopinko]

4. agreed. stand up for a free press

fer chrissakes.

[displacedvermoter]

2. Well paid weasel, with no pride or sense of embarrassment...

[unblock]

3. It's not "making it about yourself" when potus does something completely out of line

A reporter delving into how they personally felt and the damage to their career and reputation and so on would be making it about themselves I suppose.

But just questioning the appropriateness of a president hurling insults, pretty much always with some sexist/bigoted angle to boot, is called doing your job, covering what the president does.

Really, it's utterly pathetic that the media didn't bury him the minute he trotted out the whole "fake news" nonsense. Shows how completely beholden they are to him.

[dalton99a]

5. Truly disgusting.

[Boomerproud]

6. Whoa! Back off girlfriend!

That'll show him! Why don't you whisper "I'm sorry I made you upset Sir.".

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Kaitlan earned her button serving Tucker Carlson.

She said exactly what her boss wanted to hear.

[senseandsensibility]

8. She's afraid she'll get kicked out of the press room

I guess. And the other reporters are too, so that's why they don't defend each other. Their million-dollar jobs depend on being there. This name calling is far from new, and if any of them were going to stand up they would have by now.

[AStern]

9. They'll fire back once a Democrat is in office

Like they did with Clinton, Obama and Biden.

[harumph]

10. Not sure if it's worth it.

They'd get replaced immediately by someone even more supine if possible. Problem is, media access should not be controlled by the White House. WHPC should be by lottery and rotating. Questions should be submitted by an impartial non White House staff participant. This controlling of the narrative does nothing for the people.