Bonnie Kristian — Kellyanne Conway claims the doctored video of CNN's Jim Acosta is 'not altered,' just 'sped up'

The doctored video of CNN's Jim Acosta shared by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was "not altered," White House counsel Kellyanne Conway claimed on Fox News Sunday, just "sped up."

"They do it all the time in sports to see if there's actually a first down or a touchdown," she told host Chris Wallace. "So, I have to disagree with the, I think, overwrought description of this video being doctored as if we put somebody else's arm in there."

Independent expert analysis of the clip commissioned by The Associated Pressfound changing the speed of portions of the video is exactly how the alteration was accomplished. By speeding up one section and slowing another, the editing made Acosta's movement to block a White House intern's attempt to take away his microphone look more aggressive.…

“It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.” — President Bill Clinton

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Kellyanne Conway claims the doctored video of CNN's Jim Acosta is 'not altered,' just 'sped up'

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Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous

After Trump administration Press Secretary Sean Spicer rebuked the media for accurately reporting the relatively small crowds at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, senior White House aide Kellyanne Conway told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Spicer wasn’t lying; he was simply using “alternative facts.”

"Alternative facts" = bullshit.

Not to be confused with "fake news."

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Trump isn’t lying, he’s bullshitting – and it’s far more dangerous
Lauren Griffin | Director of External Research, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida