New Yorker Fact-Checker Under Fire After Mistaking ICE Worker’s Tattoo for Nazi Symbol
20th June 2018
The problem ain’t what they know, it’s what they know that ain’t so.
And yet: If it were a hammer-and-sickle? No problem, I suspect.
UPDATE: John Hinderaker, in Desperately Seeking Supremacists, has some thoughts:
An obvious question is, what on God’s green Earth would cause anyone to think that the vaguely cross-like symbol on Gaertner’s elbow is a Nazi or white supremacist sign? Only a person far gone in hatred for ICE employees would leap to such an irrational conclusion.
Part of the story, I think, is that the Left is hard up for white supremacists. Liberals talk about them all the time, but to the best of my knowledge, I have never met one. Have you? Liberals need to come up with someone other than Richard Spencer; hence the eagerness to libel a heroic ICE employee.
Lavin made her Twitter account private after the falsity of her smear was revealed, and the New Yorker appears to be throwing her under the bus….