White House press secretary uses fake Infowars video
Via VOX comes this noteworthy WH official attempt to propogandize:
Press secretary Sarah Sanders shared an altered video (italics mine) on Wednesday evening that appears to have originated with far-right conspiracy site Infowars to justify banning CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House after a tense exchange with President Donald Trump.
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When Trump insulted Acosta at the press conference, a White House intern approached him and tried to physically remove a microphone from his hands. Their arms touched as the woman reached across Acosta’s body to grab the microphone he was holding in his hand.
Looking back at the video, it does not in fact show Acosta “placing his hands” on the woman. But about 90 minutes after she posted her string of tweets, Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson tweeted out a video of the incident that was doctored to make it look like Acosta chopped the woman’s arm with his hand.
Lukud spies
Maybe now Acosta will have to get off the cushy White House beat and go out and do some REAL reporting.
On second thought, it would be plain CRAZY to ask an elite Washington “reporter” (read: stenographer) to do something so difficult.
Leave it to Karl Kolchak to blame Acosta. Almost as disgusting as Sarah Sanders. Hey Karl – are you interviewing for a position with Team Trump?
@Karl,
The WH yanked his press pass because he was a stenographer? Who knew?
Interesting or maybe not so interesting. This White House Pres and Repubs have always been quite capable of misinterpreting, taking out of context statements, and construing verbal comments and written text. I think this is the first time we have seen them stoop so low as to alter a video involving two people to lie. Of course, the Pres. has no problems lying about how many people showed up as his inauguration and apparently the pictures were altered.
A Goebbels descendent, perhaps? This is not a big enough deflection yet to make a move and whack Mueller. I wonder what that will be.
@Run,
I keep waiting for the Reichstag fire event.
Joel,
Might happen in Florida, where the last one occurred.
Humorously(in a sad way), Scott actually said:
““Tonight, I am asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate this immediately,” he added later. “No ragtag group of liberal activists or lawyers from D.C. will be allowed to steal this election from the voters of this great state.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rick-scott-recount-law-enforcement-fraud_us_5be4fb42e4b0e8438895dc54
The irony is incredible.
“Around eight months later, Kavanaugh got involved in another contentious case in Florida.
This time, it was the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. With the Florida votes still undecided in December because of a state-mandated recount due to the razor-thin margin of the election results, Kavanaugh joined Bush’s legal team, which was trying to stop the ballot recount in the state.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article214604235.html#storylink=cpy
Kavanaugh is a lot like Scalia. Can you cite the second portion of the 15th Amendment? Scalia certainly did not realize it existed.
Republicans are undermining the 15th Amendment and now Trump wants to limit the 14th Amendment. By next year – the 13th Amendment will be gone so Trump’s White America can own slaves again!