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Chicago TV Station Wishes Jews A Happy Yom Kippur With Nazi Emblem
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| 9-24-15
| Katherine Krueger
Posted on 09/24/2015 7:01:49 AM PDT by SJackson
A Chicago television news station made a truly unfortunate art choice to accompany a segment on the Jewish High Holidays on Wednesday: the yellow Star of David that Jews were legally required to wear during the Holocaust.
The stock photo was first flagged by a Chicago editor, who posted a screenshot of the WGN news broadcast online.
The station responded to apologize for the art choice about 30 minutes later, and said in a tweet the image was "inadvertently" used.
In a statement posted online, the station said the picture came from its image bank, and they "failed to recognize that the image was an offensive Nazi symbol."
"We are extremely embarrassed and we deeply apologize to our viewers and to the Jewish community for this mistake," the WGN statement said. "Ignorance is not an excuse."
The station was also taking apologies to its viewers out of the public sphere, with "J. Lyons, News Dir." directing individual users to direct message WGN's account.
European Jews were legally required to wear the yellow badge on their clothing beginning after Kristallnacht in November, 1938, but the anti-Semitic practice of forcing Jewish citizens to don an identifying badge dates back to the 13th century.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; chicago; fail; illinois; jew; jewish; nazi; yellowstarofdavid; yomkippur
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To: SJackson
In other words, no Jews work here.
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posted on
09/24/2015 7:55:09 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Tijeras_Slim
42
posted on
09/24/2015 7:57:58 AM PDT
by
ru4liberty
(I wish FR were still "The Premiere *CONSERVATIVE* Site on the Net" :'(.....)
To: SJackson
OMG!! Even a goyim gentile from Oklahoma would know better...
F-ing IDIOTS!
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posted on
09/24/2015 8:00:21 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Chamberlain at least was a real Englishman, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
To: mikey_hates_everything
One of my favorite movies! Thanks.
44
posted on
09/24/2015 8:06:56 AM PDT
by
Honcho Bongs
(Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. - Churchill)
To: tflabo
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posted on
09/24/2015 8:37:00 AM PDT
by
Dante3
To: SJackson
Americans are generally remarkably stupid.
Especially those attracted to “journalism”.
46
posted on
09/24/2015 8:48:07 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Imagine the GOPe spending half as much energy attacking liberals as they do conservatives!)
To: SJackson
Shocking but not really surprising for a city that thought electing Obama would be a good idea . We have really become a nation of some kind of stupid .
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posted on
09/24/2015 8:54:26 AM PDT
by
Lera
(Proverbs 29:2)
To: Uncle Miltie
That’s why part-time unpaid bloggers generally do a better job of covering the news than paid professional “journalists”.
To: verga
“Further proof that the LSM doe snot have 2 brain cells to rub together.”
Deer boogers? I just love typos sometimes.
49
posted on
09/24/2015 10:39:39 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
To: mikey_hates_everything
Wow ... Godzilla meets ... what the?
Is this really a thing?
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posted on
09/24/2015 10:55:27 AM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: SJackson
Well, at least that’s the only such mistake they’ve ever made...
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posted on
09/24/2015 10:58:09 AM PDT
by
polymuser
( Enough is enough)
To: fredhead
My spelling is above average, my typing is well below average.
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posted on
09/24/2015 11:15:11 AM PDT
by
verga
(I might as well be playing chess with pigeons.)
To: SJackson
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posted on
09/24/2015 11:37:18 AM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: An.American.Expatriate
WGN always was the “Short Bus” of Chicago stations.
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posted on
09/24/2015 11:37:44 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: BlueStateRightist
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posted on
09/24/2015 11:40:47 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: mikey_hates_everything
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posted on
09/24/2015 11:44:51 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: Kommodor
Watch the movie “Idiocracy” and you’ll get it.
To: null and void
Good Lord Almighty.
Publik skools, I guess.
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posted on
09/25/2015 5:14:16 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: IYAS9YAS
Doing a simple Bing search on "Jewish Symbol" resulted in only one symbol similar to that, and that was in a banner under the suggested search term "Jewish Holocaust" not anywhere in the actual image results of over 100 images on the first page. Doing a google image search for jewish star of david has that coming up as the second image.
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posted on
09/25/2015 5:26:04 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: mikey_hates_everything
“First to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world! ... But then an even greater force emerged: The un! And the un un-nazied the world! Forever!”
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posted on
09/25/2015 5:27:52 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
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