Professional liar and propagandist Sarah "Hucksterbee" Sanders is taking a barrage of outrage over the staged barring of CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White (Supremacist) House, after he stood up to neo-fascist con man Donald "Rump" Trump in Wednesday's press conference / Rump rage fest. Yesterday, in a lame effort to justify barring Acosta, Sanders' office released a clearly doctored video reportedly from lunatic Alex Jones' wingnut internet site InfoWars. The Associated Press had an expert review the video from Sanders' office:
"...a frame-by-frame comparison with an Associated Press video of the same incident shows that the one tweeted by Sanders appears to have been altered to speed up Acosta’s arm movement as he touches the intern’s arm, according to Abba Shapiro, an independent video producer who examined the footage at AP’s request. Earlier, Shapiro noticed that frames in the tweeted video were frozen to slow down the action, allowing it to run the same length as the AP one.The deceit and shamelessness of the White (Supremacist) House press operation is matched only by their stupidity and incompetence, which mirrors that of their boss, the current illegitimate occupant of the Oval Office. We've captured a small sampling of reactions to their attempt to justify the unjustifiable.
The tweeted video also does not have any audio, which Shapiro said would make it easier to alter. It’s also unlikely the differences could be explained by technical glitches or by video compression — a reduction in a video’s size to enable it to play more smoothly on some sites — because the slowing of the video and the acceleration that followed are 'too precise to be an accident,' said Shapiro, who trains instructors to use video editing software." (our emphasis)
It's been 13 Hours since Sarah Sanders posted an edited video to her Twitter stream and pinned it to the very top— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) November 8, 2018
This video falsely makes it appear as if CNN's Jim Acosta hit a White House Intern
Sanders has been notified that the video was edited and has done nothing
RESIGN!
The White House defends itself with doctored video from Infowars. A(nother) new low: https://t.co/YWJCCLTrQX— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) November 8, 2018
1) Took @PressSec Sarah Sanders' video of briefing— Rafael Shimunov 🔥 (@rafaelshimunov) November 8, 2018
2) Tinted red and made transparent over CSPAN video
3) Red motion is when they doctored video speed
4) Sped up to make Jim Acosta's motion look like a chop
5) I've edited video for 15+ years
6) The White House doctored it pic.twitter.com/q6arkYSx0V
.@PressSec you are seriously tweeting out an obviously doctored video – from InfoWars no less – to substantiate a false accusation of assault against a journalist???— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) November 8, 2018
The standard for libel against a public figure is acting with “actual malice,” and your tweet is Exhibit A. https://t.co/G6JKx3ZrpN
‘And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.’ — George Orwell, 1984 https://t.co/SKTAnM3BNP— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 8, 2018
