It's official. Jim Acosta, the obnoxious TV journalist best known for fighting a young female staffer who tried to take away his microphone at the White House, has quit his job at CNN after refusing to accept a humiliating demotion to the graveyard shift from midnight to 2 a.m. He's really leaving.

"You may have seen some reports about me and the show, and after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot CNN offered me, I have decided to move on," Acosta said at the end of his final show on Tuesday. "I have always believed it's the job of the press to hold power to account. I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on … doing all of that in the future. One final message: Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth, and to hope." (Fact check: When Joe Biden held power, at least on paper, Acosta and his fellow mainstream journalists routinely accused the people trying to hold him accountable of spreading misinformation.)