Methinks I smell desperation.
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Aka a nobody to anyone who isn't terminally online and political obsessed. No offense meant by that my dude, but you know what I mean.
That incident is what catapulted him into main stream name recognition, a Right wing fan base (who would constantly attack his fence sitting for years after), and his current level of power.
It was absolutely his moment of cracking into the big leagues, even if he did so for entirely legitimate reasons.
The concept of "independent journalist" was different back in 2010-2016. At the time "journalist" still held some kind of weight instead of being a epithet. This was an era when Vice News had actually done good work... partly because of him.