When the President of the U.S. runs a press conference and wants to move on to the next question, that's the President's right. It's not Acosta's place to run the press conference and control it. He's one of 60 journalists in that room. There's 1 President. Ok, if you were in a court room, the judge runs the show. When you're in the White House, the President runs the show. Simple as that.
That's fair. The President can run his press group however he wants.
But we, as citizens, can also fairly criticize the President for pushing the doctored video and lying to us. This doctored video is proof positive that the White House Press Secretary is willing to photoshop videos to push their viewpoint.
This is a sad day in America. We all know the technology is possible, but to use it on such a trivial issue as "who was trying to grab the microphone" just demonstrates the poor sense of judgement of the current administration.
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The President has the ability to revoke the Press Pass of whoever he wants. But why would they push a false story while doing so? This isn't even that important of an issue, but to see them doctoring up videos and pushing them around is... worrying... to me.
The video wasn't doctored. They're arguing about the frame rate and whether it was sped up or down. Acosta clearly used force against the staffer's arm. Whether he used 100 Newtons or 200 Newtons... nobody cares. It's the principle, and the disruption and the grandstanding.
I agree that the President as the right to move on to the next question, I was more wondering why people seemed to be focusing on this "confrontation" when, to me, it seemed like nothing of consequence actually happened. It just doesn't make sense to me why this incident is even being talked about when it is so minor.
