https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/www...about-not-touching-aide-cnn-ryan-saavedra?amp BuzzFeed News concluded: "There's no evidence that the video was deliberately sped up — but the change in format, from a high quality video to a low quality gif, turns the question of whether it was 'doctored' into a semantic debate."
So, this guy is saying it never happened because it clearly did! Corey Lewandowski's reputation was destroyed by women political hacks on cable tv for supposedly assaulting Michelle Fields when he just brushed her in a crowded room? Security camera videos exonerated him. The judge said incidental contact in a crowded room is not assault! In this case, Acosta used his arm to brush off the woman intern from taking the mike! He used a huge amount of force on her instead, of merely giving up the mike!
She should have not attempted to rip it out of his hands. They have security for that. She put her hands on him first without so much as a warning. I mean if you wanna get sissy about it. Nothing happened, he was out of line but so what Trump is out of line for the most part everytime he tweets or talks. The guy is a rude bully and some like to push back on bullies. Lol
That is her job to handle the mike and pass it on to the next reporter. Acosta asked multiple questions and had his turn! A sissy is one who puts his hand on a woman instead, of just handing the mike like Acosta did! What happened you liberals defending women's rights? Suddenly, you are for bullies like Acosta?
Actually not handing over the mike when asked for it has been grounds for being banned from the Ehite House press corps for decades. On that ground alone Acosta should be out.
Reply is inline below: "exGOPer, post: 4756587, member: 327981"]No one actually believes Jim Acosta did anything wrong. When I saw this(or “original” video), I thought it was a nothing burger. There was nothing inappropiate that I could discern. Has anybody ever seen reporters jockeying for position in hopes of getting their questions answered? This is an embarrassment. This is one of those situations where conservatives collectively pretend to believe something they don’t believe. Pretending to believe something they don’t believe serves multiple purposes: One, it signals tribal loyalty. Being willing to say blatantly false things shows you put tribe over truth, and that is a critical loyalty test, as anyone who has studied cults can tell you. If they were smarter about this, they would have a private test of loyalty rather than risking further loss of credibility with voters. Two, they’re trolling. “Triggering the libs” is the meats and potatoes of their political ideology these days (read my book, Troll Nation). Telling blatant lies and watching liberals make themselves crazy insisting on “facts” and “evidence” makes them laugh in delight. Not following you here. Perhap we are watching a different movie... Three, they are trying to push the idea that violence against women isn’t a real problem, but something people only pretend to care about to score points. How better to seed that idea than only pretending to care to score points? Republican Hypocracy is a word that came to my mind in the handling of fake “event”. Fourth, it's about reestablishing Trump's narrative that the media are the "enemy" to be defeated instead of a Fourth Estate necessary to keep democracy healthy. This helps, in turn, fuel the already strong message that democracy is wrong and authoritarianism is right. Personally, if I were WH press secretary or the President, the reporter that asked the toughest questions would get the most time. The idea is to show the public that the President’s policies are robust or his prior conduct was reasonable by being able to stand up to strong scrutiny. Where a prominent reporter asks a weak question, Trump would have the ability to use it to his advantage. Fifth, it's a straight up distraction. Trump wants everyone "debating" a completely obvious video, instead of talking about how he's trying to conceal what is almost certainly very serious crimes by interfering with the Mueller investigation. I see it more as Trump and certain WH staff being fustrated over the election. They may perceive the Democrats got away with or even benefited from ploys or tricks. This incident appears to be an attempt to either try to address this perceived “injustice”. The problem is, this will not play well with swing voters, AKA the difference makers. I was planning to start my first political thread “Trump’s Halftime Adjustments” where I assess the Midterms results, talk about Trump’s mistakes, and offer ideas going forward on how to address certain issues and how to attract more swing voters. This is now on hold. This is in no way an endorsement of the Democrats and their Radical Left masters. Rather, my heavily contested time is better spent elsewhere.