‘I think it’s fair’: Juan Williams endorses doxxing amid controversy over viral ‘Drunk Pelosi’ video

Doxxing, the act of maliciously exposing someone’s private information for the purpose of encouraging their public harassment, has become an acceptable form of political retribution among leftist activists and crusader journalists. It is a form of violent intimidation and online vigilantism that should be prosecuted as a criminal offense.

And yet, Fox News co-host Juan Williams publicly endorsed this dangerous tactic during a recent broadcast of The Five, arguing that a private citizen who recently produced a doctored video about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deserved to be outed and exposed.

“I think it’s fair. This guy put out something that went viral,” Williams said on Wednesday.

Revenge journalism

Members of the Fox News panel were debating the demerits of doxxing after the Daily Beast published personally sensitive information about a “day laborer” who allegedly posted the deceptive video. The amateur video editor artificially slowed down Pelosi’s voice to make her appear drunk, fooling dozens of high profile conservative who thought the speech was authentic.

Instead of focusing on this story, however, Daily Beast contributor Kevin Poulsen’s article was a vile hit-piece aimed at destroying the clip’s alleged creator, described as “a proud member of Trump’s razor-thin African-American support base.” Poulsen spent hours combing through his target’s social media history, criminal record, and employment records as a janitor and construction worker.

“We Found the Guy Behind the Viral ‘Drunk Pelosi’ Video,” reads the Daily Beast’s self-congratulatory headline. But according to National Review senior writer David French, it “wasn’t a news story.”

“The report wasn’t a news story; it was a 2,000-word piece of opposition research — all directed at a relatively powerless American citizen who’d made a single deceptive video about arguably the most powerful woman in the world,” French wrote.

Let’s be reasonable

Although Williams was clearly proud of the Daily Beast for slandering an out-of-work janitor, his co-hosts were more reasonable. Jesse Watters, who hosts Fox’s Watters World on weekends, insisted that media outlets are panicking because amateur bloggers have created an “even playing field.”

“The old media gatekeepers, the old guard have lost control of the message,” Watters added. “They’ve lost control of the narrative because now anyone of us can go online and manipulate technology and video and it’s kind of even[ed] the playing field and they are scared.”

Fox Business’ Lisa Kennedy agreed, suggesting that doxxing has become a “tool of behavioral control.”

“If you’re worried that someone is going to put all your personal details, you’re going to think twice about putting something out there,” Kennedy said.

Token liberal

For his part, Williams is Fox News’ perfunctory attempt to appear politically inclusive. He dispensed with any notion of media ethics long ago, and has since journeyed so far down the totalitarian rabbit hole that he now supports exposing sensitive personal information about working-class American citizens with whom he happens to politically disagree.

Where was Williams’ unfettered rage at the dozens of journalists and celebrities who shared edited video demonizing a MAGA hat-wearing teen who refused to be back down from an angry mob of liberal activists?

Why isn’t Williams publishing personally embracing details about TIME magazine foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large Ian Bremmer, who just this weekend attributed an invented quote to President Donald Trump in a viral tweet that was shared and legitimized by Democratic lawmakers and liberal media personalities?

The truth is that Williams isn’t defending ethics in journalism when he supports doxing conservatives. He isn’t interested in the facts — he merely seeks retribution against Americans who refuse to buy into social liberalism.

Juan Williams is nothing but a Democratic Party shill who should be kicked off of The Five and replaced by an actual journalist who knows how to engage in political discourse without resorting to acts of violence.