Orwellian intention in the Huckabee-Sanders video

Even *More lies* in doctored video~ a Palmer Report echo

"..‘And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth'.” — George Orwell, 1984

In her most recent outrage against common sense and the First Amendment, Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted this week: “We stand by our decision to revoke [Jim Acosta’s] hard pass. We will not tolerate the inappropriate behavior clearly documented in this video.” The video Sanders alludes to, as it happens, was doctored, unconvincingly, to create the illusion that CNN’s Jim Acosta (jesuisJimAcosta!)  assaulted a White House staffer as she was attempting to grab his microphone away from him during a tRump press conference.

Actual un-retouched footage from various angles contradicts Sanders’ video, giving the lie to the entire squalid rationale. 

While the provenance of Sanders’ spurious video is still under dispute (at one point it passed through the hands of (the alt-right) InfoWars), its nefarious and quite possibly unlawful intent is not: 

it was meant to pervert Acosta’s constitutionally sanctioned right to ask the “president” (aka Donald tRump) a legitimate question.

In the Orwell prophetic classic, 1984, we are introduced to the concept of “doublethink,” a word now in common coin, by the book itself. To again quote 1984: “All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.”

The whole sordid, solipsistic, White House spin on the Jim Acosta (jesuisJimAcosta! encore!) “assault” affair positively reeks of Orwellian doublethink. We are once again called upon to disbelieve the evidence of our eyes and our ears and, through a “series of victories over our own memories,” but to believe, in their place, the word of this gaslighting, and disingenuous and corrupt tRump administration.