# White House likley altered video of Jim Acosta **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242 "2018-11-09T15:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/1 "2018-11-09T15:06:52Z")
> **[AP: Video expert says White House clip of CNN reporter was likely doctored...](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/ap-video-expert-says-white-house-clip-of-cnn-reporter-was-likely-doctored/)** > > Analysis: Video is sped up to make reporter's actions look more aggressive. Jim Acosta recently had his press badge revoked after an incident with a intern. Frame by frame analysis shows that the WH version is sped up to make Acosta’s actions look more aggressive than they actually were. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/2 "2018-11-09T15:15:34Z")
Altering media to fit a narrative, revoking press credentials of critics, and using the power of the state to attempt to swing an election in your favor: all things that happened this week in the United States of America. Not Russia, not the DPRK, not Turkey, but here. (may have also happened in those places) ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/3 "2018-11-09T15:31:35Z")
To be fair, the White House didn’t alter it, some rando at InfoWars did. Sarah Sanders simply tweeted it out via the official press secretary account without questioning it. Somehow I feel like that’s worse than if the WH actually did it. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/4 "2018-11-09T15:36:01Z")
It is funny how Trump loses his shit when not surrounded by yes men. The democrats should seriously pass a law restricting any President’s right to ban the press, it is a flagrant abuse of power. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/5 "2018-11-09T15:43:18Z")
Tis small beer compared to the fact that we now have an illegally installed Attorney General. This Keystone Cops administration seems to outdo its own incompetence daily. Is there a list somewhere of altered and intentionally misleading media that’s been released by this administration? The Sarah Slanders video is hardly the first. ---
**Author:** ![UnwittingAmericans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d9b06d/32.png) [@UnwittingAmericans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwittingAmericans)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/6 "2018-11-09T15:52:41Z")
That kind of crap is going to be everywhere shortly. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/7 "2018-11-09T16:05:34Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > …we now have an illegally installed Attorney General… How so? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/8 "2018-11-09T16:07:42Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How so? Today’s [NYT’s OP ED](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/trump-attorney-general-sessions-unconstitutional.html) > [@](#): > > The president is evading the requirement to seek the Senate’s advice and consent for the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and the person who will oversee the Mueller investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/9 "2018-11-09T16:20:14Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Today’s [NYT’s OP ED](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/trump-attorney-general-sessions-unconstitutional.html) Coauthored by Kellyanne Conway’s husband. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/10 "2018-11-09T16:20:50Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Today’s [NYT’s OP ED](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/trump-attorney-general-sessions-unconstitutional.html) Thanks, Procrustus. I thought the candidate had to be confirmed within 120 days. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/11 "2018-11-09T16:26:22Z")
Cross-posted from GD: > [@Whit Sessions gone, what will become of the Mueller probe and its findings to date?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whit-sessions-gone-what-will-become-of-the-mueller-probe-and-its-findings-to-date/824160/17): > > I don’t think there is any ambiguity. 5 USC § 3345 defines three classes of government employees eligible to temporarily perform the functions and duties of a vacant “advice and consent,” office. The first two are iffy, perhaps, but Whitaker clearly qualifies under the third. > > Whitaker served as Chief of Staff to AG Sessions immediately prior to Sessions’ resignation, and the default and automatic first rule is that when an “advice and consent,” office becomes vacant, “the first assistant to the office,” becomes the acting officer. See §3345(a)(1). > > The term “first assistant to the office,” is not defined in §3345, and perhaps the administration might argue that the Chief of Staff is the “first assistant.” But this would seem to be scuttled by 28 USC § 508, which provides specifically that for the Department of Justice, “…[F]or the purpose of section 3345 of title 5 the Deputy Attorney General is the first assistant to the Attorney General.” > > The second possibility is that the President may ask any other “advice and consent,” officer to serve. The Senate approved Whitaker as a US Attorney, but I agree there’s a time and function argument to be made there. Fortunately for Whitaker, if not for the rest of us, the third category is one under which he clearly qualifies. > > The third rule: the President can select a senior “officer or employee,” of the same executive agency, if that employee served in that agency for at least 90 days during the year preceding the vacancy and is paid at a rate equivalent to at least a GS-15 on the federal pay scale. §3345(a)(3). > > That manifestly covers Whitaker, who has served as Chief of Staff since September 22, 2017, a position that’s on the ES scale, and thus above a GS-15. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/12 "2018-11-09T16:38:13Z")
Are you guys trying out for the U.S. Olympic Hijack team? Most impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/13 "2018-11-09T16:48:13Z")
This isn’t about Sessions or Whitaker. Take that discussion to a different thread. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/14 "2018-11-09T16:49:45Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > [AP: Video expert says White House clip of CNN reporter was likely doctored [Updated] | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/ap-video-expert-says-white-house-clip-of-cnn-reporter-was-likely-doctored/) > > Jim Acosta recently had his press badge revoked after an incident with a intern. Frame by frame analysis shows that the WH version is sped up to make Acosta’s actions look more aggressive than they actually were. > > Brian You are being less than scrupulous with your thread title and your post. As has been established in almost every story on this I was reading yesterday, the video was doctored by some right wing conspiracy site (exactly which one was still up for debate when I went to sleep). Sanders simply re-tweeted it as evidence to support the action taken against Acosta. Making an assertion that the White House itself did the alteration is defamation of character, under the circumstances. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/15 "2018-11-09T17:33:06Z")
Wrong. The White House used a poorly sourced video to _defame_ a respected journalist. It’s completely irresponsible for the White House to take random internet trash and present it as definitive. Unacceptable, in fact. Sanders should resign immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/16 "2018-11-09T18:40:02Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > You are being less than scrupulous with your thread title and your post. As has been established in almost every story on this I was reading yesterday, the video was doctored by some right wing conspiracy site (exactly which one was still up for debate when I went to sleep). Sanders simply re-tweeted it as evidence to support the action taken against Acosta. Making an assertion that the White House itself did the alteration is defamation of character, under the circumstances. :dubious: And now that this has been pointed out, Sanders will retract the tweet and offer a full clarification and apology to Acosta. I’m sure it’s coming any minute now.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/17 "2018-11-09T19:08:39Z")
Acosta’s press pass wasn’t revoked based on the video. Trump and everyone else saw him behaving like an asshole first-hand. Can’t you grasp at a better straw than that? And no, not behaving like an asshole to Trump. Behaving like an asshole to the woman he put his hands on, and the other reporters in the room. Most people learn to take turns in kindergarten. Apparently not at CNN. Acosta needs to learn that he is not the most important person in the room, and people are not there to listen to him. He won’t, but he should. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/18 "2018-11-09T19:12:23Z")
He was called on and tried to ask a question while Trump insulted him. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![MDfive21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@MDfive21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MDfive21)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/19 "2018-11-09T19:32:25Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Acosta’s press pass wasn’t revoked based on the video. Trump and everyone else saw him behaving like an asshole first-hand. Can’t you grasp at a better straw than that? > > And no, not behaving like an asshole to Trump. Behaving like an asshole to the woman he put his hands on, and the other reporters in the room. Most people learn to take turns in kindergarten. Apparently not at CNN. > > Acosta needs to learn that he is not the most important person in the room, and people are not there to listen to him. He won’t, but he should. > > Regards, > Shodan frankly, the intern was in the wrong for invading acosta’s space, then grabbing the mic which he was obviously not giving to her. don’t they teach people not to snatch things in kindergarten too? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/20 "2018-11-09T19:38:48Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > He was called on and tried to ask a question while Trump insulted him. That’s all. That’s not all. Acosta was also assaulted by White House staff. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242.md?page=2)