RUPAR (verb)
16th August 2023
Definition: To edit a video or audio clip (typically by removing context) such that it appears to suggest the opposite of the actual case.
Examples:
- The Charlottesville Fine People Hoax: Deliberately truncated to remove Trump’s explicit disavowal of the Nazis in the march and to exclude them from the previous remark that the people marching included ‘fine people’.
- The Drinking Bleach Hoax: Deliberately truncated to remove Trump’s beginning and ending comments making clear that he was talking about the use of light as a disinfectant.
- The Covington Kids Hoax: Deliberately truncate to make it seem that one of the kids had confronted the Old Indian Agitator when it was the other way around.
Named for Democrat ‘journalist’ Aaron Rupar, who makes this sort of thing a regular practice.