Showing posts with label White House press office distributes doctored video to justify barring Jim Acosta from WH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White House press office distributes doctored video to justify barring Jim Acosta from WH. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2018

Trump Judge Orders White House To Restore Acosta's Press Pass


So, the judge took a hard pass at the White (Supremacist) House's sketchy arguments in taking away CNN's Jim Acosta's hard pass press access:
CNN and the Trump administration were in court over reporter Jim Acosta’s “hard pass” access to the White House on Friday morning, and it didn’t go so well for Team Trump. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has temporarily reinstated Acosta’s press pass while the larger issues in the case continue to be litigated. 
Kelly, a Trump appointee, cited a lack of due process in the decision to strip Acosta’s press pass, as well as the use of a doctored video to justify the action against Acosta. 
Today’s decision is just a temporary injunction while the larger legal issues are fought out in court.  (our emphasis)
This is a sure- fire loser for those mini- Goebbels, who'd be smart to drop the case quickly rather than continue the fight in the courts.  Therefore, it will continue in the courts.

Friday, November 9, 2018

Lying Liars, Lying Videos


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 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."
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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.