{"id":1742908,"date":"2022-11-17T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742908"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:34:54","slug":"thank-you-for-your-service-lib-journo-cries-stolen-valor-after-rival-shares-his-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-you-for-your-service-lib-journo-cries-stolen-valor-after-rival-shares-his-video\/","title":{"rendered":"THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE: Lib Journo Cries \u2018Stolen Valor\u2019 After Rival Shares His Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthank-you-for-your-service-lib-journo-cries-stolen-valor-after-rival-shares-his-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1742908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Former Vox employee Aaron Rupar throws Twitter tantrum <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 November 17, 2022 4:20 pm  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Rupar, the left-wing activist who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MuellerSheWrote\/status\/1583506004007788558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited<\/a> the White House last month, threw a tantrum on Twitter. The former <em>Vox<\/em> employee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1593282015490674689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> a rival journalist of committing &#8220;stolen valor&#8221; after retired NBC executive Mike Sington shared a video Rupar clipped from OAN&#8217;s coverage of a Herschel Walker campaign event.<\/p>\n<p>Rupar lashed out at Sington&#8217;s &#8220;sleazy&#8221; behavior in a rant posted on the immigrant-owned social networking website. &#8220;I actually watched the speech, you lazily saw my video go viral and decided to rip it off for stolen valor,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;You do this all the time and people notice. Give people credit for their work when it is due.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crucial context<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;work&#8221; to which Rupar is referring is the act of watching television, using a third-party application to clip a portion of the footage, and posting the clip on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stolen valor&#8221; is a term most commonly used to describe the act of lying about or exaggerating one&#8217;s military service.<\/p>\n<p>Urban Dictionary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=rupar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defines<\/a>\u00a0the word &#8220;rupar&#8221; as follows: &#8220;To lie with impunity; a brazen statement with a focus on misleading, usually with intention of a predetermined outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rupar <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/lib-journo-wnba-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended<\/a> a WNBA game in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Rupar has tweeted 111,500 times since April 2011, which works out to an average of 26 tweets per day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t, really. It&#8217;s just another annoying example of a journalist comparing his job to military service. Many have claimed that covering the Donald Trump administration and the COVID-19 pandemic has given them post-traumatic stress disorder. The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/journalism-self-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poynter Institute<\/a> developed a course to help journalists cope with this trauma, which includes suggestions such as &#8220;take time to be sexual with yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/journalists-are-the-real-heroes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Nazaryan<\/a>, the journalist best known for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2016\/01\/06\/newsweek-senior-writer-deletes-tweet-accusing-ted-cruz-of-nazism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comparing<\/a> Ted Cruz supporters to Nazis, described covering the Trump administration as &#8220;thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn&#8217;t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go deeper<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/lincoln-project-showtime-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Project<\/a> schlubs have also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-steve-schmidt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared<\/a> themselves to the American soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion.<\/p>\n<p>We admire their passion and honor their sacrifice.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rupar, the left-wing activist who visited the White House last month, threw a tantrum on Twitter. The former Vox employee accused a rival journalist of committing &#8220;stolen valor&#8221; after retired NBC executive Mike Sington shared a video Rupar clipped from OAN&#8217;s coverage of a Herschel Walker campaign event.<br \/>\nThe post THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE: Lib Journo Cries \u2018Stolen Valor\u2019 After Rival Shares His Video appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1742911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}