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Old 11-08-2018, 02:22 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA
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Looks like the White House staffer made the first move and rather aggressively too. Looks like her job was to circle around the press people to grab the mike when someone asked a question that the President did not want to answer.
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:22 PM
 
Location: Over Yonder
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Where do the GOP snowflakes that claim Acosta assaulted her stand on this?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNn0GnnLvs
Okay, first I would have to say please, come up with your own derogatory term to use against the GOP. Snowflakes is taken, and it just seems silly when Dems try to appropriate the term. The term may have originally been a non-partisan dig, but at this point, when most people hear the word "snowflakes" in a political discussion, they automatically think of liberals/Democrats. Not saying that's okay, just saying that's how it is.

Now, as far as this video is concerned, I don't quite know what to say about it. I mean, it's completely different than the Acosta video, yet I have to admit when I saw it the first thing that popped in my mind was "that seemed rude". For some reason it looks like Trump really felt he needed to be in front of that guy. Maybe the guy cut in front of the line. Either way, the videos show two completely different kinds of interactions. But Trump definitely seemed to rather rudely push his way past the man in the video.
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Gaston, South Carolina
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You don't even need to play that vid.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wtoN6kn4SA
The bolded would explain why you think he assaulted the intern. Because you have not seen the whole video, just this one still, which does not show his "hands" on her. You apparently watched the InfoWars version that Sarah Sanders sent out

What the still in this video shows is his arm making incidental contact as he speaks with her arm as she reaches across his body to get the mic
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Self explanatory
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The bolded would explain why you think he assaulted the intern. Because you have not seen the whole video, just this one still, which does not show his "hands" on her. You apparently watched the InfoWars version that Sarah Sanders sent out
LITERALLY FAKE NEWS, being pushed by the Trump admin, and now his tools.
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Over Yonder
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Still posting doctored videos I see. I have no idea how you aren't banned from this site for doing it.
Here's a better link to the video, although I am having trouble seeing how you might feel a more complete version of the video is better. In this video, you actually really see that Acosta meant to put his arm down to stop this woman from retrieving the microphone because she had already attempted to retrieve it twice before the third attempt which resulted in his making contact with this woman's arm. Up to this point, I had been giving him the benefit of the doubt on this, because I thought perhaps this was simply a thoughtless reaction to this woman coming to take his mic. But seeing as how she had actually attempted to retrieve it twice before she was actually struck, it seems to me he absolutely knew what he was doing. However, I still wouldn't call this an assault. But I do think he deserved to have his White House pass suspended. As would all of you had this been a reporter from Fox News. We gotta start being willing to call out those we support just as quickly as those we do not. Otherwise, our society will fall into total chaos.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46133268
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:32 PM
 
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Okay, first I would have to say please, come up with your own derogatory term to use against the GOP. Snowflakes is taken, and it just seems silly when Dems try to appropriate the term. The term may have originally been a non-partisan dig, but at this point, when most people hear the word "snowflakes" in a political discussion, they automatically think of liberals/Democrats. Not saying that's okay, just saying that's how it is.

Now, as far as this video is concerned, I don't quite know what to say about it. I mean, it's completely different than the Acosta video, yet I have to admit when I saw it the first thing that popped in my mind was "that seemed rude". For some reason it looks like Trump really felt he needed to be in front of that guy. Maybe the guy cut in front of the line. Either way, the videos show two completely different kinds of interactions. But Trump definitely seemed to rather rudely push his way past the man in the video.

The use of the term at all is stupid. Using it to mock its typical users for the exact type of behavior they CONSTANTLY deride is the only appropriate use of the word.
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:32 PM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Looks like the White House staffer made the first move and rather aggressively too. Looks like her job was to circle around the press people to grab the mike when someone asked a question that the President did not want to answer.
Your timing is off. The intern's job was to transfer the mic to the next journalist called on by POTUS. Watch the entire press conference video on C-SPAN. Not one other journalist used physical force/intimidation against the intern to try to keep the mic after POTUS had already called on another journalist as Acosta did.
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Over Yonder
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The use of the term at all is stupid. Using it to mock its typical users for the exact type of behavior they CONSTANTLY deride is the only appropriate use of the word.
Fair enough. I can understand and respect that line of reasoning.
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:35 PM
 
Location: DFW
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Your timing is off. The intern's job was to transfer the mic to the next journalist called on by POTUS. Watch the entire press conference video on C-SPAN. Not one other journalist used physical force/intimidation against the intern to try to keep the mic after POTUS had already called on another journalist as Acosta did.
Libs love to twist the truth don't they? That big mean girl tried to rip it out of poor Jims hands and beat him over the head with it. (she should have)
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Old 11-08-2018, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Self explanatory
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Libs love to twist the truth don't they? That big mean girl tried to rip it out of poor Jims hands and beat him over the head with it. (she should have)
Libs didn't come up with alternative facts, or saying the truth isn't always the truth.
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