Society The Donald J. Trump Show - 4 more years editions

Welcome to our Community
Wanting to join the rest of our members? Feel free to Sign Up today.
Sign up
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
26,916
26,589
How about those horrible reporters presenting fake news to the public. Enemy of the people.... Er derp!

White House defends doctored Trump-Acosta clip used to justify reporter's ban
Press secretary stood by decision to revoke CNN reporter’s access and sharing video edited to make his actions more aggressive
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The video, originally made by an employee of Infowars, a far-right conspiracy website, shows Acosta’s reaction to a White House employee who tried to grab a microphone from him while he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 by Shane 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.”

The revocation of Acosta’s “hard pass”, which provides access to the White House grounds, is without any precedent in modern history. The CNN reporter has made a name for himself by asking forceful questions of Trump and other administration officials.

Acosta has served as a White House correspondent for CNN since 2013 when he covered the Obama administration. He was promoted to chief White House correspondent earlier this year.

Acosta called the White House’s claims “lies” and CNN defended its reporter in a statement.

The network said: “[The revocation] was done in retaliation for his challenging questions at today’s press conference. In an explanation, press secretary Sarah Sanders lied. She provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. This unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. Jim Acosta has our full support.”

A network spokesman later attacked the video shared by Sanders on Twitter. Matt Dornic, a CNN executive, tweeted at Sanders that her behavior was “absolutely shameful”. He added “You released a doctored video – actual fake news. History will not be kind to you.”

The White House Correspondents Association also condemned the action to revoke Acosta’s credentials. Its president, Olivier Knox, said in a statement Wednesday night that the group “strongly objects to the Trump administration’s decision to use US Secret Service security credentials as a tool to punish a reporter with whom it has a difficult relationship. Revoking access to the White House complex is a reaction out of line to the purported offense and is unacceptable.”

Knox added: “We urge the White House to immediately reverse this weak and misguided action. We encourage anyone with doubts that this reaction was disproportionate to the perceived offense to view the video of the events.”
Click to expand...

View: https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1060503703713669121



View: https://twitter.com/mdornic/status/1060500212307910661



Video of Acosta incident posted by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders contains extra frames
A video shared by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders showing an incident involving CNN reporter Jim Acosta and a White House intern contains extra frames that do not appear in the C-SPAN broadcast of the event.

Acosta had his White House press credentials revoked after questioning President Donald Trump about the migrant caravan. Sanders later justified the ban by tweeting that Acosta had placed “his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern.”

Sanders then tweeted a video showing the incident, based on the C-SPAN coverage. However, according to an analysis of that video by Storyful, it has several frames repeated. These frames do not appear in the original C-SPAN footage, and appear to exaggerate the action of Acosta. The video shared by Sanders appeared under an hour after the same video, with the same close-up, was posted by Infowars.com contributor Paul Joseph Watson.

ANALYSIS

The video was posted using interlaced frames, rather than C-SPAN’s progressive frames, so cannot be made to match up exactly with the original footage. However, when compared side-by-side, there is a clear moment (Frames 13, 14, 15 in our first clip, where the C-SPAN version is on the left) when the Sanders video halts and the C-SPAN footage does not. The two clips, which were roughly in sync before that moment, are out of sync thereafter.

The same three still frames are repeated in the zoomed-in clips of the incident posted in the Sanders video.

Both the C-SPAN video and the footage posted by Sanders was set to play at 29.7 frames, as was the software suite we used to do this analysis, eliminating the possibility that the error was caused when the footage was imported into editing software by Storyful.

Watson said of allegations that his video was doctored: “The video was not ‘doctored’ by me — all I did was zoom in on the original from the Daily Wire. I did not ‘speed up’ anything. The screenshot from Sony Vegas Pro here proves that.”

The Daily Wire version Watson called “original” is a GIF. See that GIF here.
Click to expand...

View: https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1060227002832056320

Jim Acosta: White House shares apparently doctored video posted by conspiracy site InfoWars to justify suspending CNN reporter’s press pass
 
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
26,916
26,589
Not the first time this administration has released fake videos in an attempt at rewriting history.
 
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
26,916
26,589
Kemp to resign as Georgia secretary of state
Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp is stepping down from his post as Georgia secretary of state, effective on Thursday.

Kemp's move comes as he remains locked in a close race against Democrat Stacey Abrams, which national outlets have yet to call.

The secretary of state submitted a brief letter to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) on Thursday announcing his forthcoming resignation later in the day.

The Kemp campaign declared victory in the governor's race on Wednesday, but Abrams has refused to concede and vowed to push for a recount, citing votes that have yet to be counted.

Kemp has faced repeated calls and legal challenges urging him to resign his post or recuse himself from any matters related to the election in which he is a candidate.

As secretary of state, Kemp would oversee vote counting, result certification and could call for a runoff or recall of votes.

A last-minute legal challenge filed hours before polls closed on Tuesday asked a court to block Kemp from presiding over the race.

As of Wednesday, Kemp held a slight lead over Abrams, with more than 284,000 mail-in ballots yet to be counted.

The race between Kemp and Abrams was roiled by accusations that Kemp was trying to suppress minority voters with the state’s voter registration laws.

Kemp’s campaign, meanwhile, accused Democrats of a hacking attempt. Both candidates have denied the respective accusations.
Click to expand...
 
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
26,916
26,589
Last edited:
Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
26,916
26,589
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom