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Progressive Media Hack Gets Wrecked Over Claim Of ‘Stolen Valor’

Journalist Aaron Rupar

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Nicole Silverio Media Reporter
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Members of the media mocked liberal journalist Aaron Rupar on Thursday for claiming that a network executive did not retweet him to receive “stolen valor.”

Rupar embedded a video, filmed by OAN, of Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker giving a speech mocking President Joe Biden for falling off of his bike and saying that “vampires are cool people.” NBCUniversal senior executive Mike Sington posted the same video, prompting an angry response from Rupar.

Rupar asserted that Sington should have retweeted him instead of posting the video “without attribution” to get this so-called “stolen valor,” even though the footage belongs to OAN.

“This guy loves posting the exact same videos others have already posted without any attribution,” Rupar said in a quote tweet to Sington. “Pretty sleazy and I’m not the only one who has noticed it.”

“Aaron, not trying to be sleazy. I thought the clip was from OAN, their logo is on it. Willing to learn, what should I have done differently?” Sington replied. (RELATED: Hill Reporters Mocked After Describing ‘Trauma’ Caused By Jan. 6 Riot)

“RT mine? i actually watched the speech, you lazily saw my video go viral and decided to rip it off for stolen valor. you do this all the time and people notice. give people credit for their work when it is due,” Rupar replied.

The tweet included a reader’s context defining “stolen valor” as a “phrase that specifically refers to people pretending to be veterans to claim social benefits.”

Sington said he “never saw” Rupar’s tweet of the video. Rupar continued to moan that it was his video, claiming that he must have stolen the video from his post because it had an identical “audio/video sync issue.”

“The audio.video sync issue is my OAN feed that you can see in the Herschel video I posted is also in yours, so this doesn’t pass the smell test.

Rupar also informed Sington that he would now follow him to “keep calling” him out on not attributing the OAN footage to him and told him to “be better.”

Social media users mocked Rupar for ranting about Sington’s tweet.

“Dear CBS, please credit .@atrupar. He watched this speech and tweeted about it. Do not steal the valor of this American hero,” former Daily Caller and current Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross tweeted. “Please try to do better.”