{"id":167110,"date":"2018-06-20T04:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=167110"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:29:31","slug":"new-yorker-fact-checker-under-fire-after-mistaking-ice-workers-tattoo-for-nazi-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=167110","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker Fact-Checker Under Fire After Mistaking ICE Worker’s Tattoo for Nazi Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

The problem ain’t what they know, it’s what they know that ain’t so.<\/p>\n

And yet: If it were a hammer-and-sickle? No problem, I suspect.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: John Hinderaker, in\u00a0Desperately\u00a0Seeking Supremacists<\/a>, has some thoughts:<\/p>\n

An obvious question is, what on God\u2019s green Earth would cause anyone to think that the vaguely cross-like symbol on Gaertner\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read it. 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\u00a0Desperately\u00a0Seeking Supremacists, has some thoughts: An obvious question is, what on God\u2019s green Earth would cause anyone to think that the vaguely cross-like symbol on Gaertner\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416716,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167110\/revisions\/416716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}