Kellyanne Conway admitted to Fox News’s Chris Wallace Sunday that the Jim Acosta video tweeted by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was, in fact, doctored. And in doing, so she coined another phrase that, though not as catchy as "alternative facts," is just as Orwellian.

"That’s not altered, that’s sped up," said Conway of the video, "They do it all the time in sports to see if there’s a first down or a touchdown. I have to disagree with, I think, the overwrought description of this video being doctored."

The interview came in the aftermath of the White House’s suspension of Acosta for "placing his hands" on an intern who was trying to take away his microphone. Suspending a journalist’s White House credentials is a nearly unprecedented move, one that prompted outrage from reporters and supporters of a free press. To justify the suspension, Huckabee Sanders tweeted a video originally posted to Infowars, one that experts say was both sped up and slowed down to suggest that Acosta made aggressive contact with the aide.

Conway's statement is mind-boggling on a couple of counts. For one, speeding something up almost certainly falls under the definition of altering it. And sports analysts don’t usually speed up the action to get a clearer look at it—slowing things down tends to offer a more detailed look.

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Gabrielle Bruney Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture.

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