The far-Left Media Matters purports to report on media bias, but it’s just yet another in a long line of hard-Left propaganda sites. Recently it tried to get Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) in hot water because I endorsed his book back in 2015 — foes of jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, etc. are always on the Left’s list for defamation. In any case, Media Matters has now shown what it is all about by hiring a discredited Leftist “journalist” who smeared a disabled veteran by falsely claiming he had a Nazi tattoo to research “far-right extremism.” This reminds me of the time some years ago when counterjihadist-turned-projihad-stooge Charles Johnson identified the Tennessee state flag as some kind of neo-Nazi, white supremacist banner. Maybe Media Matters will hire him next.
“Can’t make it up: Fact-checker who misidentified ICE agent’s ‘Nazi’ tattoo hired by Media Matters to research alt-right,” Twitchy, July 21, 2018:
Remember last month when blue-check celebrities like actor Ron Perlman smeared as a Nazi a veteran of the Marine Corps and double amputee who now works for ICE as a computer forensics analyst? Why? Because of the Iron Cross tattoo on his arm.
After Perlman and others spread the false claim far and wide, ICE issued a tweet clarifying that the tattoo is a symbol of his platoon in Afghanistan.
Justin Gaertner is a combat wounded U.S. Marine who continues to serve his country as an ICE computer forensics analyst, helping solve criminal cases & rescue abused children. The tattoo shown here is the symbol for his platoon while he fought in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/BaOBxaAMHS
— ICE (@ICEgov) June 18, 2018
Among those giving steam to the idea that ICE had hired a Nazi was former New Yorker fact-checker Talia Lavin, who this week tweeted that she’s found a new gig with Media Matters for America researching right-wing extremist groups. Great hire, guys.
Some personal news: I'm delighted to be joining Media Matters (@mmfa) next week as a researcher on far-right extremism and the alt-right, part of a brand-new team. I'll be working full-time with some of the smartest, most passionate people in media right now and I'm psyched.
— . (@swordsjew) July 20, 2018
Wow.
ICYMI: Media Matters has hired Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) as a "researcher" on "far-right extremism," despite the fact that her only claim to fame here was falsely accusing a disabled war veteran of sporting a Nazi tattoohttps://t.co/wwLOdWIaDm
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) July 21, 2018
Jon Levine writes at The Wrap
Media Matters for America has hired Talia Lavin, a former fact checker for The New Yorker, less than a month after she left the magazine over a tweet falsely accusing a disabled ICE employee of having a Nazi tattoo.
The liberal media watchdog group will employ Lavin as a researcher on far-right extremism, she said Friday in a tweet….
DBM echo says
Talia Lavin – she’ll be a real plus for them; as in a plus-sized gal. Wondering if she negotiated an all-u-can-eat clause for their desert tray. The only thing she’ll be researching are the happy hours w/complimentary hors d’oeuvres at the local bars.
SAE says
Good call, DBM. Lavin definitely looks like a buffet-kinda gal. Worse yet, she lies and exudes liberal smugness and superiority, even over an American war hero.
That’s a huuuge BEOOOTCH.
J D S says
More stupidness in hard, far left, liberal so called Journalism..What a waste.
El Guapo says
Please…gasp!…wheeze! I’m laughing too hard!
Oh…wait on a mo…this is serious and for real? Not comedy?
Kathy says
Oh, jeez, here we go again… another stupid female with a brain the size of a pea and an ego the size of a small galaxy, doing all thinking women the world over a disfavor by spreading her own distorted brand of leftism throughout the media in the name of ‘enlightened womenkind’, all the while passionately believing that she is ‘saving the world’ from fascism – while in actual fact she is just helping to dig us further into the trap the left and Islam have set for us… Pathetic!
I mean, just look at that smug, stupid face! That really says it all!
SAE says
Yeah…I picked up on her haughty smugness too. See above. Great minds……you know.
Indiana Tom says
Iron Cross is not a Nazi Symbol. Wait until she sees one of my ancestral family symbols which is a White Swastika which is square positioned. A lot of the Nazi symbols were around long before the Nazis.
Lydia Church says
Just a quick ‘behind the scenes’ peek at the operation of the left…
and these are the ones they are using to come after us….
oooooy!
She should have applied to the SPLC!
A total shew in!
Emilie Green says
In her case she’s likely a total shrew-in.
Shrew, a bad-tempered or aggressively assertive woman, or both
SAE says
I’d say….”bring it on” but she might take me literally. Yikes!
pemba says
ICE is doing good job, according to rules and regulation of USA and I have to say THANK you ICE, keep it up.
gravenimage says
Yes–overall ICE has acted keep us safe.
gravenimage says
Media Matters hires “journalist” who falsely accused ICE agent of having Nazi tattoo to research “far-right”
……………………
What a tool. She has also sneered at the idea of Islamic terrorism.
And here she is, covering a story of a dhimmi who tried desperately to meet the Hamas terrorist who tried to murder his wife, recounted in his book, “What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?”.
In the process–Israeli authorities wisely blocked his efforts, he decided that “Palestinians” are “not monsters”.
He never says if his poor wife–seriously injured and almost killed–agrees.
https://www.jta.org/2013/08/27/arts-entertainment/author-of-new-memoir-opens-up-about-terrorism-victimhood-and-politics
Berengaria says
Big Talia has a chip on her shoulder too, & those big shoulders can handle a man-sized Chip.
She’s filled with Gusto to go hunting for Right-Wingers & Media Matters has fulfilled her Dreams. They’re setting Big Talia loose on all of us Trump Supporters, so watch out. After her episode of Maligning an ICE Employee, she is not known for Checking her Facts. I believe that’s why she was terminated at her last Position.
Tjhawk says
Researcher?? She couldn’t find the source of a fart when her and the dog are the only two in the room.
SAE says
I bet it’d be her. Poor dog.
Johm says
She is a flaming idiot too !
Johm says
She should be fired again !
No Muzzies Here says
Full time job at Media Matters! How many other individuals are employed full time? Where does Media Matters get its money from?
Note that she was not hired “despite the false accusation” but BECAUSE of it.
James Lincoln says
Did I somehow missed the apology by former New Yorker “fact-checker” Talia Lavin to Justin Gaertner, the combat wounded US Marine who does very important work for ICE ???
XRZ1138 says
That photo is of the Lady on Jeopardy who referred to “Turd Fergason” in her final answer.
She might be the same person….but that image is easy to recall (what a move! ;0)
Giacomo Latta says
Has she discovered the fact that she has been educated light years beyond what her brain can handle?