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@hightor,

Snort! You're having trouble winking and farting at the same time.

Poor lad.

@Builder,

Builder wrote:

CNN is not a news service at all, which means he's not a reporter.

Well, besides what has been already said above (he's actually the chief White House correspondent for CNN) is a "reporter" only a person with a "news service"?

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@Builder,

Quote:

You're having trouble winking and farting at the same time.

You're having trouble proving that Jim Accosta isn't a reporter or that CNN isn't a news service. Making silly accusations at me for asking you to back up your specious claim is juvenile. Eyeball and sphincter coordination is irrelevant. What CIA-planted stories has CNN reposted and what is Accosta's relation to that coverage?

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@Walter Hinteler,

He shouldn't have put his hand on that intern when she went to get the microphone from him. It figures you leftists would spin this as Acosta was asking hard questions and that's the reason his pass was pulled. Can't even be honest about the facts of the events that took place.

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@Walter Hinteler,

I'd like all news media to stop covering his events. I know Fox already cut back - that was talked about a couple of weeks ago. They all need to go full radio silence on him. Stop letting him work his family brand.

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@ehBeth,

Tell me again who the fascists are?

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@Baldimo,

Look at the video. He never touched her. Huckasand lied. What do you expect from the Trump WH.

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@MontereyJack,

I have seen the video and he did indeed touch her, it was violent in any way, but he did prevent her from taking the mic away.

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@Baldimo,

Nonsense. Would you like to retract the "it was violent" in your post? If there was any contact, she clearly instigated it, not Acosta. Trump is notoriously intolerant of any first amendment rights directed against his bullshit..

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@MontereyJack,

Nonsense is not believing what your eyes are seeing.

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@Baldimo,

I think she touched him while trying to grab the mike. She should be fired for gross sexual assault, evidently... :-)

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@Olivier5,

Quote:

Washington Post
44 mins ·
Press secretary Sarah Sanders shared a video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta that appeared to have been altered to make his actions look more aggressive toward a White House intern.

interesting times

it is true that you see different videos at different sources - something is edited. I'm def not sure which is the original.

___

and what happened to the caravan? did they stop? did they turn back? did they serve their function?

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@Baldimo,

Baldimo wrote:

I have seen the video

where did you see it?

your source will effect what you see

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@Olivier5,

The first one I saw seemed to show him trying to get away from her touching him.

Watching it on another site ... it looked different.

Looked at it on another site in the last few minutes - I'm back to thinking it shows him trying to lean away from her while she is pretty forceful in trying to get the mic - and she touches him.

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@Olivier5,

Quote:

I think she touched him while trying to grab the mike

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When they showed the clip on MSNBC later that evening, that was clearly the case. I guess nowadays a picture isn't worth a thousand words. But from what I saw, she looked uncomfortable in going after the microphone but determined to do her job and he looked as determined to lean back and keep her from succeeding. Mountain and mole hill kinda thing in this context. However, it just goes to show how autocratic Trump is when he would take away a reporters freedom of the press just for asking ordinary questions.

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@ehBeth,

and the source of the altered one?

infowars by way of the WH

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/439dyp/the-white-house-is-circulating-a-doctored-infowars-video

not sure why I can still feel disappointed by the WH

Quote:

The doctored clip appears to be sped up to make it look like Acosta forcefully raised his hand at the intern, bringing it down on the crook of her arm as she tried to physically take away the microphone he was holding. In reality, network video from the press conference shows Acosta already had his arm in the air, pointing at the president, when the intern lunged at him to grab his mic.

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Quote:

Maggie Haberman
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@maggieNYT
Yes, the White House press office is sharing a manipulated video that makes it appear that Acosta was menacing the intern when he was not and did not. The intern reached over Acosta to grab the microphone while he was trying to ask another q and Acosta tried to pull away.

Julie Scelfo
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@JulieScelfo
I am pretty sure that @maggieNYT is here referring to the official White House press office, but it would be best if she clarifies. Pay close attention, America: the United States @PressSec is circulating a demonstrably fake, i.e. doctored video.
cc @PENamerican @pressfreedom https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1060521094594134018 …

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@ehBeth,

Who cares, really? Since when should men and women never touch each other? And yet men can still touch men and women can still touch women????

This is ridiculous. Just a fig leaf for Trump's bruised ego.

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@ehBeth,

I know they really should rename the WH press briefing to something like WH spin room.

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