"The butt of global jokes": who might this be? (Talk Trump)

[JimC]

The People's Marxist Republic of San Francisco strikes again!

[Hermit]

The People's Marxist Republic of San Francisco strikes again!

Don't exaggerate. Just call the judges what they are: Hard left, left wing or socialist.

[Seabass]

San Francisco?! That's where Nancy Pelosi practices her witchcraft! I hear they let gays have wedding cakes out there! Some say they even believe in... science!!!

[Brian Peacock]

White House defends doctored Trump-Acosta clip used to justify reporter's ban

The White House has stood by its decision to revoke the access of CNN reporter Jim Acosta after a fiery standoff with the president, and defended sharing a video on social media that had been altered to make Acosta’s actions towards an intern look more aggressive.

The video, originally made by an employee of Infowars, a far-right conspiracy website, shows Acosta’s reaction to a White House employee who tried to grab a microphone from him while he attempted to question Donald Trump at a press conference on Wednesday.

The video is cut so that it appears that Acosta tries to forcefully use his arm to push away the White House staffer’s arm, rather than use his arm to pull back the microphone.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, shared the video on Twitter on Wednesday night and said: “We stand by our decision to revoke this individual’s hard pass. We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.”

Despite the video’s dubious origins, Sanders doubled down in a White House statement on Thursday saying “The question is: did the reporter make contact or not? The video is clear, he did. We stand by our statement.”

Paul Joseph Watson, who makes videos for Infowars, called claims that he had altered the video a “brazen lie”.

But in an analysis done for Storyful, which describes itself as a social-media intelligence agency that sources and verifies insights for media, there are apparently several frames repeated in the video.

According to an analysis byShane Richmond, a Storyful journalist, “these frames do not appear in the original C-SPAN footage, and appear to exaggerate the action of Acosta.”

In an interview with Fox Business Network on Thursday, senior White House communications advisor Mercedes Schlapp insisted that the intern was “shaken up” and “intimidated” by Acosta and added: “What we are seeing is bad behavior that cannot be tolerated.”...
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... _clipboard

So, let's discuss how the White House's eagerness to use Trumped up evidence for doing exactly what it wanted to do all along is a morally righteous act justified by Acosta's inherent turpitude and #FAKENEWS credentials. And by that let's only ever talk about how Acosta is a bad man eh(?), because that's so much more clear cut than acknowledging that Trump was challenged on characterising 1000 refugees as an invading army of criminals terrorists who present such a serious material threat to the helpless women of America that they deserve a possibly lethal level military response, and how he took extreme exception to that challenge.

And who among us remembers The Bowling Green Massacre? I remember... I remember...

[pErvinalia]

There's some talk that the video is different due to the video->gif->video process.

[Brian Peacock]

Whatever, but Acosta had it coming anyway.

tea:

[Tero]

Maxine
https://twitter.com/adornedtroy/status/ ... 7447927814

[Animavore]

Let's not let the Acosta thing just slide as the next morally bankrupt and incomprehesibly stupid thing comes out of the cesspit that is The White House. This using doctotered propoganda as a means to try silence journalists is a clear slide into facism. The most potent evidence yet. If the US government sow distrust against the press then many won't believe them when they open fire on a bunch of immigrants and claim they threw a rock and as the abuses in detention centres grow.

[Jason]

The most mind melting thing about the Acosta thing for me, now, is that Trump didn't know who Recep Tayyip Erdogan is. He had to be told by the reporter.

That melted my mind a little bit.

[Tero]

Trump is off the hook! He can now blame falling stocks on Democrats!
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5Eixic/

[Scot Dutchy]

He will blame everything on them. It is a perfect set up for him. Blame everything on the House. They will all believe him.

[Brian Peacock]

Let's not let the Acosta thing just slide as the next morally bankrupt and incomprehesibly stupid thing comes out of the cesspit that is The White House. This using doctotered propoganda as a means to try silence journalists is a clear slide into facism. The most potent evidence yet. If the US government sow distrust against the press then many won't believe them when they open fire on a bunch of immigrants and claim they threw a rock and as the abuses in detention centres grow.

It's all a bit Germany 1931. The next step is to start arresting journalists and political opponents.

[Animavore]

Trump Threatens to Retaliate Against Reporters Who Don’t Show ‘Respect’

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/busi ... KKsqRd5qwI





A piece of shit if I ever saw one.

[Seabass]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Ignorant blowhard making a fool of himself on the international stage. Just another day in the Trump presidency.