We Found The Guy Behind the Viral 'Drunk Pelosi' Video

[applegrove]

We Found The Guy Behind the Viral ‘Drunk Pelosi’ Video

Kevin Poulsen at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-found-shawn-brooks-the-guy-behind-the-viral-drunk-pelosi-video?ref=home

"SNIP.....

On May 22, a Donald Trump superfan and occasional sports blogger from the Bronx named Shawn Brooks posted a video clip of Nancy Pelosi on his personal Facebook page. The clip showed Pelosi at her most excitable, stammering during a press conference as she voiced frustration over an abortive infrastructure meeting with the president. Brooks’ commentary on the video was succinct: “Is Pelosi drunk?”

Thirteen minutes later, a Facebook official told The Daily Beast, Brooks posted a very different Pelosi video to a Facebook page called Politics WatchDog—one of a series of hyperpartisan news operations Brooks runs (with help, he claims). This clip had been altered to slow Pelosi down without lowering the pitch of her voice. The effect was to make it sound as though the Speaker of the House was slurring her words drunkenly while criticizing Donald Trump.

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Brooks acknowledged that he’s involved in the management of both Politics WatchDog and AllNews 24/7, the Facebook pages that sent the bogus video on it’s viral tear. To the outside observer, the two pages are unconnected, but after a tell-tale link on one of the pages led The Daily Beast to Brooks, he admitted that the ad revenue for both outlets goes directly into his personal PayPal account.

In the first hint at a possible motive for the Pelosi smear, Brooks volunteered that the video brought in nearly $1,000 in shared ad revenue.


.....SNIP"

So people can make $1000 of a viral post? Look for more bull**** to come. And no longer from just GOP motivated partisans.

[Blue Owl]

1. Remember the videos of tRump played at half-speed awhile ago, sounding drunk?

Every time I saw one of those videos, it was made perfectly clear that "This is a video of trump played at half-speed".

This is much, much shadier -- someone trying to pass off a doctored video as reality.

A shameless, dirty GOP sleaze job!

[applegrove]

2. And you can make money the more extreme and false your content until

you get tagged as fake.

[Chin music]

3. I bet he's lying. Safe bet bc they all do.

1000.00? I'd think he probably made a lot more than that, especially by the time it's done.
Shawn Brooks eh?
What ever happened to the "Anonymous" group that was supposed to be the "V" for vendetta, for some of lifes injustices via the internet? Haven't heard much from them lately. Seems like they'd have tapped out a few people in the last two years. DAmn, lifes strange in 2019.

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. I've been watching the same videos featuring Тяцмр for months.

The Pelosi video is just a copycat. Why did it get so much publicity and his didn’t?

Probably because right wingers are stupid enough to think it’s real.

[SMC22307]

5. Black dude from the Bronx?

NOT what I was expecting. I read the whole piece -- he seems like a major piece of work. And Facebook still refuses to take down the video...

[applegrove]

6. But even though they are no longer paying him maybe he is getting more

followers so he will make more the next time.

[SMC22307]

7. Get him back into that court-ordered domestic violence program...

and yank his social media privileges. I read the article again -- what a mess he is! Plus blaming Obama for companies hiring undocumented workers.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. No worries,. Throw that to our party's savvy, highly skilled

cutting edge media team!

[UTUSN]

9. K&R

[Sanity Claws]

10. What a great bio!

Brooks is a 34-year-old day laborer currently on probation after pleading guilty to domestic battery.That's from the Daily Beast article.
Day laborer means unemployed, doing occasional jobs to get some money.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. Get ready for more dishonestly edited and distorted video in the coming year or so.

And apparently Russia will be one of the suppliers.

Deepfakes using computer tech will look very real:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mona-lisa-deepfake-video-1561600

[UTUSN]

12. Details: He's Black, "a day laborer," turned wingnut "because of Obama," lost job to undocumented

immigrants, and on probation for domestic violence.