Posted on 11/08/2018 10:54:08 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Kellyanne Conway defends yanking 'grandstanding' Jim Acosta's press pass as she doubles down on White House's claim CNN reporter 'put his hands' on female intern during press conference
CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, a longtime critic of the president, was denied access to the White House on Wednesday night and his pass was confiscated
Acosta's heated press-conference shouting match with Trump had ended with brief physical contact with a female intern who tried to take the microphone
He pulled the mic back and continued asking questions, momentarily pushing the young woman's arm away
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway cast the moment in #MeToo terms: 'You don’t put your hands on a woman'
She said Thursday morning that the confrontation was a scary male-on-female moment like those that Trump-supporting women often face
Sen. Marco Rubio said the White House shouldn't have revoked Acosta's pass but called him 'an activist, not a journalist'
Kellyanne Conway said Thursday morning that the White House was right to cancel CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials on Wednesday, casting his tense but momentary physical contact with a White House intern as a male-on-female threat.
Acosta found himself without access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue following a contentious press conference that included a heated shouting match with Trump and a near-tussle over the White House's microphone as he pushed the intern's arm away.
In a 'Fox & Friends' interview, Conway described it as 'a rough moment for the young aide' and cast Acosta as a chauvinist villain for stopping the young woman from taking the microphone back once President Donald Trump said he was finished answering the reporter's questions.
'The reporter from NBC was already standing, getting ready to ask his question, and she was just doing her job,
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Why does the media keep running to Rubio to get his opinion on what the President does?
And secondly, a reporter does not get to badger the President, or anyone else, until they give him/her the answer they want.
As primarily a White House “guest”, you don’t get to set the rules, or manhandled the staff...at any level.
It could have been a “set up” to invoke a reaction, although I’m not completely convinced of that theory. Getting a White House “hard” press pass is an aspired-to status for any reporter, not an entitlement.
The first amendment says, paraphrasing, that “Congress” shall make to law abridging “freedom of the press”, it doesn’t say the press can force or badger anyone into saying things not true.
But, if they can’t attend the briefings and show the respect and decorum expected of them in that setting, you don’t have rights to “demand” anything. If a reporter came to your home, or business, and you ran him out because of his behavior, you have NOT violated their “freedom of the press”...s/he can still write, and publish/broadcast, anything s/he wants the next day. That’s where the “freedom of the press” comes in, not in “access”.
Actually it’s assault consummated by a battery. A simple assault doesn’t require contact. Physical contact makes it a battery.
He touched her. THAT is assault.
Learn your legal terms. He touched her.....that is Battery!
She may have a bruise from that chop across her arm.
BUT—in any case—he still is guilty of UNWANTED TOUCHING.
You want to play the #metoo movement for 36 hours per day on everyone-—then this gets to be part of the mix.
IF Acosta had done this BS on the playground of my grade school, he would have gotten a whooping from the rest of the students.
You know, in the “old” days, he just would have put his hat on her, and the rest of them would have jumped her.
It’s the same thing.
The same knuckle-dragging neanderthalism that made Detroit a ghost-town is alive and well again in America.
Just like the Unions, Antifa and the Dems have nothing to offer but violence.
“Looks like he was copping a feel.”
Believe it or not, I heard one pundit on CNN said that the video had been doctored.
Precisely.
The point is he had no right to do it.
And he did it.
“... against anyone.”
And he would have been equally out of bounds doing so.
He was explicitly ordered to give up the mike by the President at a White House press gathering.
They are there by courteous invitation, and are expected to behave like the professionals they claim to be.
A real employee in a regular job could get fired for that.
Yep. Assault does not require touch.
There is a reason for not giving her name.
Consider the recent events and Tucker Carlson.
I respectfully disagree about not putting your hands on a woman. Ms Conway's statement is too general imo.
More specifically, if anybody has a gun and is treating to do harm with it then you’ve got to defend yourself.
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