Vox.com “journalist” Aaron Rupar needs no introduction here. We’ve documented plenty of instances where he’s tweeted out dishonest captions for videos that have been deliberately edited/shortened to make it appear as though people (mostly Republicans or Fox News media figures) have said something shocking and/or outrageous. Rupar’s intentionally deceptive videos have sometimes helped set entire news cycles, as was the case when he smeared a Georgia sheriff’s officer back in March after the Georgia spa shootings to the point the officer almost got fired.

Perhaps even more bizarrely was that one time earlier this year when Rupar actually took issue with how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was sitting during a Republican governors’ town hall on Fox News.

Something else Rupar has become infamous for over the past year or so were repeated instances where he engaged in some mask/COVID-shaming of people who went to sporting and political events sans masks during the pandemic, and the respective Governors of their states like DeSantis and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Like other Karening journalists, Rupar strongly insinuated that such folks were killing people by allegedly causing “superspreader events” instead of taking precautions by staying at home.

But over the weekend, Rupar got hilariously hoisted with his own petard after he posted pictures of himself with family members at various events, some indoors, some outdoors, where he wasn’t wearing a mask. The one he took the most grief over was attending a packed wrestling event where very few were seen wearing masks – including Rupar:

Huge pop for CM Punk in Chicagoland. #AEWRampage pic.twitter.com/aSmGuIX4LJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2021

At a Cubs game (Aaron’s on the left):

We saw quite the Cubs game. Wrigley is a joy. pic.twitter.com/JoUZUtv0Y2

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2021

At another sporting event:

Rupars pic.twitter.com/MM9UqML2lh

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 5, 2021

The “Ruparing” of Rupar was epic:

So….Aaron Rupar is getting Rupared so bad right now. #superspreader https://t.co/0bJch5JcGG pic.twitter.com/KXFp1KZpJl

— Julesie (@justjules99) September 4, 2021

After Spectator contributor Stephen Miller went after him, they went round and round, with Miller getting the best of him and flinging much of what Rupar has said about maskless people back in his face:

Aaron, are you wearing a mask? Aaron there is no social distancing. People are dying, Aaron. You see a packed arena and I see five 9/11s https://t.co/rnszJLLm8e

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 4, 2021

Rupar never said whether or not he was wearing a mask during the wrestling event, so we’ll have to assume he wasn’t:

https://t.co/Mf8oNtSQSQ pic.twitter.com/jzIyaXek5i

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 4, 2021

After he had been thoroughly owned by Miller and others, Rupar seemed to have a convenient change of heart on mask-shaming and having a social life during a pandemic:

I don’t pretend to have all the answers about Covid but castigating vaxxed/masked people for taking part in some semblance of social life doesn’t seem very constructive. We have to take extra precautions for kids and vulnerable adults but I don’t think that precludes socializing.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 6, 2021

Though Rupar was quick to point out that much of his mask-shaming occurred when there was no vaccine, it completely missed the point. We’re being told now that case numbers are up in a lot of states due to the Delta variant and that to be extra safe we should be taking precautions again like masking indoors and outdoors, especially when you know you’ll be in close proximity to others, even when vaccinated. And yet there Rupar was for the entire Labor Day holiday weekend doing things he’d ordinarily shame other people for doing.

If Rupar hadn’t been such a dishonest jerk about shaming people for the last year, the whole back and forth about his “brothers weekend” might have been obnoxious, because he was doing what a lot of Americans were over the holiday weekend – spending time with family and having fun. But it never, ever gets old seeing a hack like Rupar getting held to his own double standards, especially when you consider how often his dishonest video tweets and COVID-shaming rants get amplified by supposedly “objective” reporters.

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