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New Yorker magazine fact checker accuses ICE Agent of being a Nazi because of a tattoo
June 19, 2018, 10:31 AM
lkdr1989New Yorker magazine fact checker accuses ICE Agent of being a Nazi because of a tattoo
Stuff like this makes me hate the media even more.
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ICE Demands Apology from ‘New Yorker’ Fact Checker Who Smeared Agent as Nazi
New Yorker fact checker Talia Lavin falsely claimed that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was sporting a Nazi tattoo, according to a statement released Monday by ICE.
ICE is also demanding an apology from Lavin and from the New Yorker, a far-left anti-Trump news outlet.
According to ICE, the establishment media fact checker made this false statement via Twitter over the weekend. Lavin’s Twitter account is now locked to outsiders.
“Over the weekend, social media perpetuated by a Tweet by New Yorker reporter Talia Levin erroneously implied that a tattoo on one of the arms [of ICE agent Justin Gaertner] was an Iron Cross and essentially labeled him a Nazi,” the ICE statement read.
“Per Gaertner, the tattoo … is actually ‘Titan 2,’ the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan,” the statement said, adding, “The writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed which is about protecting family and children.”
The statement says Gaertner is a “combat wounded U.S Marine who continues to serve his country as an ICE computer forensics analyst, helping solve criminal cases and rescue children who have been sexually abused.”
Due to his combat wounds, Gartner is a wheelchair-bound para-Olympic athlete who “has volunteered his time to motivate other wounded warriors and Boston bombing victims.”
Lavin’s alleged tweet hit during this weekend’s fake news frenzy over the separation of families caught crossing out border illegally, something the Obama administration did and no one cared about.
In their zeal to manufacture this controversy, the media have compared America’s legal and humane separation policies (that are meant to protect children from human traffickers and to remove the incentive of abusing children by making them walk through miles and miles of desert) to Nazi concentration camps.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...eared-agent-as-nazi/
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Ryanp225Talia Lavin
May you get what's owed.
June 19, 2018, 10:55 AM
konata88Some fact checker. Should be fired if that superficial level is all she delivers. On top of that, bias in a fact checker is an oxymoron.
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PASigquote:
Originally posted by Ryanp225:
Talia Lavin
May you get what's owed.
This twat has made her Twitter account private now.
June 19, 2018, 11:48 AM
dsmackOf course she has... and the Bonus Check is in the mail!
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June 19, 2018, 12:15 PM
sigcrazy7This is why I don’t believe “fact checkers.” Even if it were an Iron Cross, that is not a Nazi symbol. (Shush, don’t the New Yorker, but the modern Luftwaffe is sporting the Iron Cross.)
Politically motivated, uneducated, dumbass hacks.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus June 19, 2018, 12:19 PM
Mars_AttacksApology?
Too bad the first amendment doesn't require licenses that can be revoked and jail time for blatant lies.
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June 19, 2018, 12:21 PM
parabellumMas, listen to the nonsense that's coming out of your mouth. You want to issue licenses in order to exercise First Amendment rights? Think about what you're suggesting.
If you want to feel indignation over this, do so, but let's stay on planet Earth, please.
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June 19, 2018, 12:27 PM
Il CattivoSo fact checkers are, like, apprentice journalists? That oughtta keep the media straight.
June 19, 2018, 12:37 PM
stoic-oneEven the anti-defamation league says the iron cross is "verboten"
and a hate symbol... They don't bother to make it very clear that the nazi version has a swastika at the center.
Odd, since it predates the nazi's by just a couple years... Fact checkers without the facts, who'd a thunk it.
June 19, 2018, 12:41 PM
Mars_AttacksIt was just sarcasm based on the left's requirement of us having to have a license to carry a constitutionally legal right weapon and face fines for not having the license on person or accidentally carry it in the wrong place.
However the leftist "journalists" face zero consequences for their outright reckless attacks on what they deem "evil" under the guise of their first amendment rights.
That was all.
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June 19, 2018, 12:52 PM
12131Man, these metally deranged maggots are so desperate they will try anything, hoping something will stick.
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June 19, 2018, 12:54 PM
Il CattivoWell, in their case it helps to be partially informed and partially ignorant. That way they know just enough to scream "NAZI!" when they're wrong.
June 19, 2018, 01:04 PM
GregYLooks as much like a St Florian's cross as anything, at least to me.
Which would make him one of those..... gasp.... firemen.
June 19, 2018, 01:18 PM
FenrisThe Nazis wore shoes. If he's wearing shoes, then he is a Nazi.
Oh, wait...
Never mind.
God Bless and Protect our Beloved President, Donald John Trump. July 23, 2018, 12:01 PM
BamaJeepsterThe 'fact checker' got a promotion after this. Just hired on by Media Matters to research 'right wing' groups.
Can't make this stuff up!
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58748
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- John Adams July 23, 2018, 12:06 PM
ChuckFinleyIs that Flounder?
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July 23, 2018, 12:11 PM
rscalzoquote:
Talia Lavin
After three years at The New Yorker as fact checker, Lavin tendered her resignation days after an creating an online firestorm when she falsely accused Justin Gaertner, a wheelchair-bound ICE agent, of having a Nazi Iron Cross tattoo over his left elbow.
She deleted the tweet a short time later after several people pointed out that the tattoo looked more like a Maltese Cross, a symboy used by members of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars.
July 23, 2018, 12:15 PM
corsairJust another attack by liberals, constantly putting conservatives on the defensive. Unbelievable she landed on her feet at Media Matters for THAT job
July 23, 2018, 12:20 PM
Sigmundquote:
Originally posted by corsair:
Just another attack by liberals, constantly putting conservatives on the defensive...
May I revise slightly: Just another false attack by liberals, who feel no shame and face no consequences when they're exposed.