Andrew Kaczynski

Andrew Kaczynski (November 30, 1989) is an American journalist and a political reporter for CNN. He became well known in 2011 by posting old video clips of politicians, often of them making statements contrary to their current political positions, to YouTube. He was described as "the [2012] Republican primaries' most influential amateur opposition researcher". He was hired by BuzzFeed in December 2011. He attended college at Ohio University, but got involved with political reporting and left school without a degree. As of 2012, he was enrolled at St. Johns University to study early American history and did online courses to meet his degree requirement but did not eventually graduate. At 19, Kaczynski had a bout of pancreatitis leading him to eschew smoking and alcohol. Slate political reporter Dave Weigel called him "the Oppenheimer of archival video research." Kaczynski got his start by emailing reporters' tip boxes with clips he found of politicians contradicting themselves. In 2012, Kaczynski uncovered numerous clips of Mitt Romney supporting an individual mandate, contradicting his then-current campaign position. He also uncovered a clip of Barack Obama protesting at Harvard while at law school over a lack of faculty diversit