Left-wing magazine’s fact-checker resigns over tweet falsely implying disabled veteran is a Nazi
"This has been a wild and difficult week,” Lavin wrote, the paper reported. “I owe ICE agent Justin Gaertner a sincere apology for spreading [a] rumor about his tattoo. However, I do not think it is acceptable for a federal agency to target a private citizen for a good faith, hastily rectified error.”
Ah yes, typical leftist. An apology that isn't really an apology. I love the "it was a good faith error" part. Yeah, you had good faith this guy was a nazi cuz...why? Oh right, cuz he works for ICE and leftist cultists have been calling them nazis.
"However, she also said ICE was dishonest about her role in the dust-up, the Times said.
“ICE also lied about me, saying I originated the scrutiny of Gaertner’s tattoo,” Lavin said in a tweet, the paper reported, adding that the 28-year-old also claimed ICE targeted her because of the New Yorker’s criticism of the federal agency.
“I wasn’t the genesis of this rumor; there are tweets still up with tens of thousands of likes explicitly calling the tattoo ‘Nazi,’” Lavin said in a message to the Times."
This is the standard for journalism these days. "Strangers online called him a nazi". No wonder the media constantly gets shit wrong about Trump and others. Ron Pearlman also got involved cuz....reasons?
"The paper said in previous story that actor Ron Perlman tweeted questions about the tattoo: “I know I’m a leftist, ‘D List’ actor, so my twitter feed is probably deceiving me, but is that an iron cross tattooed on this hero’s arm? This is a mistake, right? Cuz the Iron Cross was a symbol of Nazi Germany. Gotta be my twitter feed is leaning left again.”
Lol. Yeah, your feed *was* leaning towards the zone of cultists on the left Ron. Do better. His apology is even better:
"My apologies! I mistook the symbol on this man’s arm before I actually knew the facts. So again, I apologize to the man in this picture for my mistake. Maybe it was the gusto, the relish this agency seems to project in their obsession to racially profile decent people."
Leftist cultist logic: these people racially profile so I'm gonna...racially profile. Logic! Best part though:
"She also told the paper she was “a useful foil: a fat Jewish feminist with a Harvard education. ICE said I ‘baselessly slandered an American hero,’ artificially pitted me against a disabled veteran, and engineered a conservative news cycle in which I was a villain.”
Gee, a fat feminist? Shocking.