Kellyanne Conway Just Admitted That the Jim Acosta Video Was Edited
"That's not altered, that's just sped up."
BY GABRIELLE BRUNEY NOV 11, 2018
Kellyanne Conway admitted to Fox News’s Chris Wallace Sunday that the Jim Acosta video tweeted by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was, in fact, doctored. And in doing, so she coined another phrase that, though not as catchy as "alternative facts," is just as Orwellian.
"That’s not altered, that’s sped up," said Conway of the video, "They do it all the time in sports to see if there’s a first down or a touchdown. I have to disagree with, I think, the overwrought description of this video being doctored."
Conway's statement is mind-boggling on a couple of counts. For one, speeding something up almost certainly falls under the definition of altering it. And sports analysts don’t usually speed up the action to get a clearer look at it—slowing things down tends to offer a more detailed look.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a24937408/kellyanne-conway-jim-acosta-video-doctored/