Justin Gaertner
Posted on 06/19/2018 1:11:32 PM PDT by BBell
A Harvard-educated fact-checker for the New Yorker is being excoriated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for “baselessly slandering” a Marine veteran — by falsely accusing him of having a Nazi tattoo, according to reports.
Officials with ICE are now demanding that the New Yorker and Talia Lavin apologize over her erroneous tweet about Justin Gaertner.
In the gaffe, Lavin allegedly implied over the weekend that Gaertner, a combat-wounded veteran and ICE forensics analyst, had the Nazis’ Iron Cross inked on his elbow.
But she deleted her post after “military veterans responded that the tattoo looked more like a Maltese cross, a symbol associated with firefighters,” ICE said in a statement.
The tattoo, according to Gaertner, is actually a “Titan 2” symbol for his platoon when he served in Afghanistan.
“The writing on his right arm is the Spartan Creed which is about protecting family and children,” ICE said. “Anyone attempting to advance their personal political opinions by baselessly slandering an American hero should be issuing public apologies to Mr. Gaertner and retractions. This includes Levin [sic] and the New Yorker.
Gaertner lost both of his legs and suffered other permanent injuries when an IED exploded during his deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He served as a fire team leader and lead sweeper for IEDs.
Now Gaertner is a para-Olympic athlete who has “volunteered his time to motivate other wounded warriors and Boston bombing victims,” according to ICE. With the immigration agency, he helps solve criminal cases related to sexually abused children.
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Justin Gaertner
In any argument, the first one to yell ‘NAZI’ loses................
Lavin is another tragic victim of a disease rampant among the left - the dreaded Dunning-Krueger syndrome.
Obviously a Harvard education is now pretty worthless, if one of their graduates doesn’t know what a Nazi Iron Cross medal looks like and can’t be bothered to look it up, before dashing off a smarmy, specious article.
I had to look up Dunning-Krueger syndrome and it is an apt description of the minds of these people.
One of the definitions of googol is “...something approximating the measure of things progressives do not know.”
Earth to journalists, that’s “googol”, not “Google”,the empire of evil deception, lying and selling of person information.
Dunning-Krueger is most easily explained this way.
Seldom right, but never in doubt.
Just like when that snowflake in NYC yelled about Nazi symbols on the sidewalk when in fact it was just markings by the utility company to locate cables/pipes.
That is not a Maltese cross. It’s a St. Florian’s cross. Journalists must take a test to get their jobs: if they’re discovered to know anything at all, they don’t get hired.
The media are truly America’s biggest enemies. They are real scum.
I thank that Marine for his service. I thank him for the loss he suffered for my freedom.
But he is NOT owed an apology from tagging his body like that and having someone mistake his “art” for a Nazi symbol.
So...you idiot much?
I would argue the opposite - the shiat bag Harvard grad needs to apology given it is so frakin’ obvious that the ‘tat’ symbol is not a Nazi symbol... did you have issues recognizing this?
She’s advertising but apparently not making the sale
Instant classic!
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