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The liberal media lost their minds recently after a slowed down video falsely claiming to so show Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-D) drunk and slurring her words went viral. Then, in what their editor-in-chief called a “right on the money” response, The Daily Beast hunted down the creator of the video and exposed his identity. It’s a seedy tactic CNN themselves have used against Trump supporters and private citizen in the past, so it’s no wonder Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter promoted it.
There to promote their article with the headline proclaiming “we found the guy behind the viral ‘drunk Pelosi’ video”, Daily Beast editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman boast about how reporter “Kevin Paulsen was able to track down the kind of network of fake news sites that were pushing this, and then the person that first uploaded the video.”
Stelter then pounced on the $1,000 the uploader made in ads on the video as his motive for making the video, but Shachtman pushed back. “It might have been a lot of money to him. But I don't think it was a pure profit motive. I think for him it was a matter of ideology. It was – You know, he's a big Trump supporter,” he said.
The article itself actually noted how the video maker refused to talk with The Daily Beast at first because he was afraid for his privacy. The leftwing news outlet had no reservations about publishing his full name, the city and neighborhood he lived in, his arrest record, and what he currently did for a living.
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