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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Since countering Aldean's claim the video only contains "real news footage," Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 159 points 1 year ago

Last week Country Music Television, which initially aired the video, pulled it from rotation. But after Aldean defended the music video by stating that "there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage," Stark said it was easy to prove him wrong

In a TikTok video that's gotten at least 1.5 million views, Stark found that two of the clips in the video came from stock footage. One showed a woman flipping off police at at labor day event in Germany and another was a commercial stock clip of a molotov cocktail.

Lying about it and then getting caught.

Stark shared screenshots with NBC News of hateful messages she's received since posting her videos about Aldean's song, which included racist slurs, fatphobic remarks and death threats.

Just bizarre.

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 149 points 1 year ago

It’s not bizarre, the right wing are terrorists. This is how they respond to anyone who challenges their fiction.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Don't you see? Since the whole video is news now, by definition all footage contained in it is news footage. Check mate

[-] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 7 points 1 year ago

@MicroWave

>A representative for Aldean did not immediately respond to a request for comment from on Monday.

Ofc they didn't. 🙄

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Bizarre? It would only be bizarre if the insecure losers didnt do this

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