Russian news clip of Fred Phelps’ death a fake
RECENTLY, a viral video surfaced on social media of a Russian TV news anchor laughing her way through out takes as she tried to report on the death of controversial homophobic Westboro Baptist Church founder Pastor Fred Phelps.
However, it was brought to the attention of the Star Observer that the translated English subtitles in the video were all inaccurate.
The original video was posted in 2011 and the subtitles then show that the news anchor was reporting on a story about a marijuana plantation that was discovered by Canadian police and guarded by 13 bears, a big dog, a pig and a racoon. The Star Observer has not been able to confirm if these subtitles were correct, either.
Original video:
The fake video:
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David,
My thoughts exactly. And it was clear that she says “Canadian Press” as a source which wasn’t in the subtitles.
Pretty obviously fake from the get go, words like “Fred Phelps”, “Kansas” etc should sound the same or similar in any language…