# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 88
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242/88 "2018-11-15T19:25:20Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > For folks who don’t want to watch the video, **Shodan’s** description above is absolutely false. > > An accurate description would be to say that part of Acosta’s arm brushed against the WH aide’s arm while she was trying to forcefully pull the microphone out of his grasp. In fact, if you watch the various slo-mo versions out there, you see that maybe the side of his wrist or possibly just his sleeve contacted the intern. He did not put his hand on anything. And, that was just because he was moving his arm down while the intern got in the way – he obviously didn’t intentionally put his wrist or sleeve on her, it was incidental contact. I have no idea why posters on this board are falling for such obvious lies by the administration. It’s really bizarre. I wonder if they also think the turnout for Trump’s inauguration was huge. One can argue over the effects of tax bills or deregulation, and who should get the credit, but some facts are just objective. I find this episode to be very strange. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-likley-altered-video-of-jim-acosta/824242)._