The White House press office merges with Infowars
by digby
CNN’s Jim Acosta was told to turn in his press pass. He’s no longer allowed on the White House grounds:
We stand by our decision to revoke this individual’s hard pass. We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video. pic.twitter.com/T8X1Ng912y— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) November 8, 2018
The video embedded in her tweet is sped up to make it seem as if Jim Acosta is “karate chopping” the woman’s arm as she reaches for the microphone.
Slowed down the @Acosta encounter to show the FOUR times the White House staffer touched HIM… not the other way around. Unclear if she's been suspended. pic.twitter.com/gBhlR2r5P1— Sarah Burris (@SarahBurris) November 8, 2018
Okay, this smear by @PressSec was so awful and I like nerding out on Final Cut so much that I had go full Zapruder here. Look at the "placing his hands on a young woman" she's referring to which is clearly the exact opposite of what she claims. cc: @Acosta pic.twitter.com/2HvJ3CgmlW— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 8, 2018
Guess where Huckabee Sanders’ clip came from?
Trump’s press secretary, who frequently calls accurate but critical reporting “fake,” is sharing doctored video produced by InfoWars, a lunatic conspiracy theory outlet who has falsely claimed that the Sandy Hook massacre was faked & that John Kerry shot a hurricane with a laser— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 8, 2018
On the first day after the midterms, Trump held a rambling press conference in which he acted as if he was drugs. (Nothing particularly uniques about that …) Then he fired Jeff sessions and appointed an unqualified toady who auditioned for him on CNN by trashing the Mueller investigation as the Attorney general of the United States.
And later that night his press secretary banned a White House reporter and tweeted out an Alex Jones doctored video to justify it.
It’s still only Thursday.
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