Independent journalist Aaron Rupar compared not getting retweets for his publicly available Twitter videos to stealing the honor of military veterans Thursday.
2022 Patriot Awards celebrates America's heroes by naming Gary Sinese the 'Service to Veterans' award recipient.was mocked on Twitter Thursday after he compared not getting credit for videos he tweeted to"stolen valor."
According to the military website Home of Heroes,"’Stolen Valor’ is a term applied to the phenomenon of people falsely claiming military awards or medals they did not earn, service they did not perform, Prisoner of War experiences that never happened, and other tales of military actions that exist only in their minds."
Rupar, now an independent journalist, responded angrily when Mike Sington, a former senior executive at NBCUniversal, tweeted video from aRupar pointed out Sington's tweet and said,"This guy loves posting the exact same videos others have already posted without any attribution. pretty sleazy and i'm not the only one who has noticed it." Sington responded that the slight wasn’t intentional and wondered how he could make it right:"Aaron, not trying to be sleazy.
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