Jim Acosta the Accoster

Only liberal women's rights matter

That's because it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXZ2jRZMLrg

LOLz okay, let's play this game...

The video clearly shows acosta used his left hand to force the young lady's arm downward

what part of that are you NOT seeing?

What I'm saying is that the video on the right was clearly doctored when you see how out of sync it was with the original footage.

the videos are identical.

they may well have different frame rates and compression ratios (Twitter does this automatically when you upload video, and so does youtube, so the video on the right has been pre-processed at least twice!)...but they are identical.

It was doctored in a way to look more aggressive. It was not default by Twitter of YT.

The White house doctored it.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/expert-acosta-video-distributed-by-white-house-was-doctored-1.6637262

*previous comment deleted cos i accidentally posted while trying stretch the comment box!

*******ANYONE OUT THERE GOT IMGFLIP PRO????*******

When you upload a video to Twitter or YouTube, their service automatically adjusts frame rates and compression ratios to suit the limitations of their respective platforms...this affects video quality and sometimes audio syncing...that's just fact

anyhoos, here's EVERYTHING your link says...

"Earlier, Shapiro noticed that frames in the tweeted video were frozen to slow down the action, allowing it to run the same length as the AP one."

That's it! that's everything there is to this video "doctoring" expert's claims.

first, the fact that Sanders video didn't have audio suggests that it's actually an animated gif. many people use this technique today as it's less resourceful than publishing video. Also judging by the poorer quality of image on the Sander's upload (compared to the upload of the c-span broadcast) I would bet my money that Sanders uploaded a gif.

Here's how it works and here's what your expert isn't telling you...

if you have imgflip pro you can test this yourself....if you record 15 seconds of video at say, 30 frames per second (it's around this mark for broadcast TV)...you have 450 individual frames each displayed for 0.03333 seconds each

if you then create an animated gif from that video file at say, the typical rate of 15 frames per second, you end up with half the amount of individual frames, 225 each being displayed for twice as long, i.e. 0666 seconds

If you did this with imgflip pro, you could turn that video into a gif....with audio
and guess what, both clips will be 15 seconds long and the audio will run from start to finish on each clip...BUT....it won't sync up as well because half the frames have been removed (DumpTrump's point!)

That's all there is to this nonsense, if you want to carry on believing it, that's your prerogative, but you simply cannot back up these ridiculous claims

Shapiro says a frame-by-frame comparison with an Associated Press video of the same incident shows that the one tweeted by Sanders appears to have been altered to speed up Acosta’s arm movement as he touches the intern’s arm, according to Abba Shapiro, an independent video producer who examined the footage at AP’s request. He also says it is too precise to be an accident.

LOLz, i was about to reply when i decided to look and see if this expert had uploaded a video...here's his analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pP-XUqBQJY

feel free to read the comments, i think you'll find they ALL concur with everything i have said here..re. compression and frame rate factors

Note that he mentions "anomalous blurring" as being the main flag here and how it indicates being "slowed down" but also note how this expert omits to tell you that when the frame rate is lowered, there is a function called "interlacing" used which overlays two images into one (causing some blurring) but which is used to give a more realistic look to a video with a lowered frame rate edited in.

when he demonstrates slowing down and speeding up, again he's not telling you that when comparing gif (or edited video with lower frame rate) to raw video you have to account for frame rate. what happens is: the first frames in both videos sync up, for the second frame, the gif/low frame video appears to slow down purely and simply because it is displayed for 2-3 times longer. these actions repeat for consecutive frames throughout....synced, slowed down, synced, slowed down....the video does NOT speed up, it SYNCS up

Also, his final analysis..."so that it would appear that he was being a lot more aggressive then he actually was...he was simply turning away"

"more aggressive than he actually was" deflecting from acostas agressive behaviour with allegations of video editing, says it all really. if he had any video evidence that acosta was simply "turning away", why not simply show this in the analysis to absolve acosta of any wrong doing?

I started working with video and editing software (and animated gifs) 20 years ago and while I certainly wouldn't classify myself as an expert as this guy does, I know this expert is full of shit, not for what he says, but for what he doesn't say!.... and i suspect his business will take a hit over this.

looks like i was right about the gif. apparently the Daily Wire turned the C-span video into a gif, Paul Joseph Watson then turned the DW gif into a video, and Sanders tweeted PJW's copy

which begs the question....why did the expert not mention or account for this in his analysis? see my previous comment for answers to that one!

please watch this expert's analysis video...and read the comments. this analysis is the most desperate thing i've seen in the last two years, you'd be doing yourself a huge favour by stepping away from it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pP-XUqBQJY

There isn't a single comment defending his analysis. there are however, a lot of comments coming from people who, like myself, have some knowledge of video compression. These commenters may well all be republicans but ask yourself, where are all the dems with knowledge of video compression? why aren't they defending his analysis from these comments/attacks?

More proof that CNN sucks!!

Try WATCHING the footage instead of just quoting your IRA script.

I saw the footage, Acosta used his left hand to swipe at her arm, and I'm not Irish so take your IRA bullshit and stuff it. Stick to your NPC talking points, soyboy

Would you like a mug to hold all your liberal tears??? ROFL!

I deleted my previous commnent and made it into a caption for the meme below, for those who don't know.

Oh boo hoo, you said I'm lying (I'm not, BTW), oh like that's gonna trigger me (NOT), what else can you say that would stop my trolling on a roll?? Plz I'm laughing my azz off so hard.

That's adorable.

LOLz!! well, they do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I'll take that ;)

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Could be called assault in court...Jim Accoster!

Dude the video was slowed down so it looked harder. Try to use real facts.

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He put his hand on her hand as he pulled the mic away from her, the speed of the video is irrelevant.

ugh here it sure looks a lot less aggressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rXqqLPbo4&feature=youtu.be&t=55
Our president was being very rude and he wanted to keep talking so he PUSHED HER ARM WAY
Forget about when Trumps top official manhandled the Breitbart reporter. Were you complaining then?

Who said it had to "look aggressive"?
He touched her. Period. No further comment necessary.
The reporter doesn't get "to keep talking" regardless of how much of a rude, huge douche tRump is...

He ejected for unnecessary roughness!

From the doctored video.

haha

I'm sure your comrades will make sure the young lady gets sufficiently "body-slammed"

Antifa violence is terribly inflated on imgflip. Most of them look like this.

most of them don't. most of them are violent thugs...and if you can't or won't condemn them...YOU are part of the problem

I officially condemn their actions and the bad ones. I disagree with the antifa, but most of them are not violent thugs they are misguided and at heart want everybody to be kind and equal and turn to socialism. Most white supremacists aren't violent either. Don't believe everything you hear.

If someone sides with antifa or defends their actions, that person is a violent thug...they probably just don't have the balls to do it themselves

I'm not saying everyone on the left is a violent thug, just a small minority. but that small minority will become a majority if others on the left continue condoning them thru their silence