CNN’s S.E. Cupp was raked over the coals for her latest glaring lack of self-awareness.

The network’s right-leaning commentator declared in a tweet that it’s time for the press to “stop begging to be liked” by Hollywood and Washington, and that it is the job of journalists to “f*ck sh*t up for anyone who would abuse their power.”

Let’s be real clear. We do this to ourselves. The press needs to stop begging to be liked by Hollywood, Washington and anyone else in power. We are not here to be liked. We’re here to f*ck sh*t up for anyone who would abuse their power. This ?? is ?? our ?? job.

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) November 1, 2018

Cupp’s tweet echoed other comments she had made on the same topic, calling out Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt for defending President Trump’s attacks on the press.

“It is so disturbing. And I know Ainsley, she’s a lovely person. She’s a kind person. I think she means well,” Cupp told CNN, according to The Hill. “But the idea that it is our job to report things the way anyone in a position of power — but especially the president — wants them, is a total dissembling of the job the media.”

“We are here to be a check on power. We are not his press shop. We are not his spokesperson. We are not his marketing team,” she added. “We in the press are here to fact check and to be a check on power. It is not our job to be liked. It is especially not our job to be liked by the president.”

She tweeted the same views about remarks by Fox News’ Martha MacCallum.

“I think that often, the media doesn’t cut him a break.” It isn’t the job of the press to cut the president, or anyone in power, a break. We are not his press shop or his spokesperson. We are a check on power. Period. https://t.co/GhlhufpPco via @mediaite

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) November 1, 2018

But Cupp’s strong declaration of the job of a journalist did not sit well with many of her colleagues.

I must be naive, because I always assumed the job of a reporter was to report facts. “We’re here to f*ck sh*t up* sounds like something a partisan activist would say. https://t.co/C6crhQYhkJ

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 1, 2018

High-horse egotism doesn’t win people over. https://t.co/azFK3LxpYS

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 1, 2018

More highly inflammatory language from CNN as one of their employees says it’s their job to “f*ck sh*t up”https://t.co/H69SH6XaXV pic.twitter.com/k9mIIFd2Yt

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 1, 2018

The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra apparently got Cupp’s attention.

Let’s talk like people for a second. Don’t you think, like I do, that the press should have been more critical of Obama? https://t.co/YeZkabGXsT

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) November 1, 2018

Well, your network is the one that has been telling the media to “tone down” the rhetoric and here you are saying it’s your job to “f**k s**t up” https://t.co/m4bHKmmx5n

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 1, 2018

I’m not answering your question because I was not challenging the message that you were trying to communicate, rather, I was challenging how you articulated your message and wanted to highlight CNN’s hypocrisy given their insistence that others need to “tone down the rhetoric” https://t.co/bOiwTXn9B7

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 1, 2018

Others also blasted the CNN commentator.

THE IRONY! pic.twitter.com/7VrmVGI9jm

— PuC8er (@KnaveVapor) November 2, 2018

Doing pretty good there until you dropped that anvil on your head…

— The Ugly American (@TUASondrakistan) November 1, 2018

You mean like @donlemon did? Begging for attn and thinking he’s untouchable bc he’s both black & gay. He certainly f&%¥ed up this week didn’t he? ? Guess what… racism works both ways ?#DonLemonisRacist #FireDonLemon #CNNSucks

— #PittsburghStrong (@Burgh_Babe) November 1, 2018

No Press pic.twitter.com/py20SxJNBM

— Tru (@tru350) November 2, 2018

If the press had concentrated on doing their jobs over the last 30+ years instead of “changing the world” into some socialist workers’ paradise, they wouldn’t have steadily eroded their credibility to an all-time low & falling, already below that of used car salesmen

— Boris_Badenoff (@Boris_Badenoff) November 1, 2018

Yeah, after this tweet I now have to completely agree…#EnemyOfThePeople.

— Bill Lawton (@VABill1) November 1, 2018

Cupp’s comments about journalists courting Hollywood and Washington also earned her plenty of sarcastic rebuke on Twitter, considering the hypocrisy.

Hypocrite says what?https://t.co/5PyYLFz6ME

— Democrat Strategist (@JammieWF) November 1, 2018

As is becoming an annual tradition, I ran into @cnn Superfan Jeff Goldblum and his lovely wife again. Adorbs. #WHCD pic.twitter.com/VIZzhz3RiJ

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) May 1, 2016

Hanging with @williebosshog and @bosshogswife @DuckDynastyAE #WHCD #nerdprom pic.twitter.com/HJXoQ4GJB7

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) April 28, 2013

Happy bday to a bona fide super hero, my friend @VanJones68. So proud to be a part of your 50th. #van50 ? pic.twitter.com/YzdlRD9i20

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) September 21, 2018

Today I had the honor and privilege of meeting @rosemcgowan. I thanked her and hugged her while choking back tears. We are all in her debt for her bravery. #metoo pic.twitter.com/b7ML9RWnhd

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) January 31, 2018

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