There's Something You Should Know About the Writer Who Trashed the Virginia Gun Rights Rally in GQ

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

The lying fat pig.

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Former NYU professor and laid-off HuffPo journalist Talia Lavin ...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/01/23/theres-something-you-
should-know-about-the-writer-who-trashed-the-virginia-gun-rights-rally-in-
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Remember that Virginia gun rights rally that was supposed to be some neo-
Nazi boogaloo? Yeah, it wasn’t that. There aren’t that many neo-Nazis in
the country, nor are there hordes of white nationalists. These people have
always been here, an extreme minority trying to find life in other
people’s causes. What happened in Richmond was peaceful. It got the
message through don’t mess with Americans’ Second Amendment rights. The
Virginia Citizens Defense League organizes this event every year at the
start of the new legislative session. It wasn’t really out of the
ordinary. The only difference is besides around 1,000 people coming, tens
of thousands showed up. Now, these folks were supposed to be horrible
Nazis who spread violence and mayhem week before this event. It truly is a
wonderful place to know when you’re right and watch from afar as the
narrative the left-wing dolts in media have manufactured is trashed within
minutes. An even greater part is watching their smug self-righteousness
get wiped off their faces when it happens.

There was not a single arrest at this rally. There were no Confederate
flags (I don’t count three as widespread use), no swastikas, but
apparently this event was not peaceful, so says Talia Lavin in GQ:

Incredible interview and he’s 100% right.

Watching the media desperately try to find even an instance of violence in
this protest of 22,000 peaceful patriots was pathetic. I wish they would
have as much scrutiny of an antifa protest/riot!
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— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 21, 2020
WATCH:

Reporter: Why do you think it’s important for women to exercise the
#SecondAmendment?

Richmond 2nd Amendment really attendee: “It’s definitely very important
especially for women because it keeps us safe. I think that’s
fundamental.”
pic.twitter.com/cJqO9XkXBg

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 20, 2020
One woman's sign directly addresses the people accusing the #VirginiaRally
of being a "white nationalist" or racist gathering.
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— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 20, 2020
No one was shot—a frankly extraordinary turn of events given the sheer
amount of weaponry, the density of the crowd, and the weapons stuffed
casually into backpacks or held loosely in the crooks of pale arms. This
happy vicissitude of fate led right-wing groups to declare the event a
triumph—in the words of fringe-right publications Gateway Pundit and
InfoWars, a “peaceful protest.” Mainstream media, too, bought into this
analysis: “Pro-gun rally by thousands in Virginia ends peacefully,” was
the assessment of the Washington Post. Having made Northam the butt of
their rhetorical ire during the rally, conservative groups further
condemned his choice to declare a state of emergency in the state’s
capital: “Gov. Northam fantasizes he saved Virginia from volatile
situation,” crowed a headline at Breitbart.

All this confidence belied the fact that bloodshed—great and heavy and
perhaps unprecedented on American soil—was narrowly averted. A federal
motion for detention released Tuesday revealed that three members of neo-
Nazi terror group The Base had planned to attend Monday’s rally in
Virginia, kitted out with a home-built, functioning fully-automatic rifle
capable of firing several rounds at a time; survival gear; and 1,500
rounds of ammunition. They had planned to open fire into the crowd.

According to the affidavit, one of the men had postulated that there were
enough “radicalized” individuals slated to be in Richmond that “all you
gotta do is start making things go wrong and Virginia can spiral out to
fucking full blown civil war.”

[…]

But even with the Base threat—which was thoroughly ignored by right-wing
media—neutralized, it seems myopic at best to describe the Monday event as
“peaceful.” There was, it was true, an absence of immediate bloodshed; but
what abounded, in that armed and insurrectionist sea of humanity, was the
promise that bloodshed might happen at any time, should the will of the
mob be thwarted. America’s exceptional tolerance towards armed white
gunmen—its brooking of gun-toting militias around the country, and the po-
faced seriousness with which the media takes claims of “freedom” when it
comes to the right to own weapons of mass slaughter—is entirely restricted
to this demographic.

Oh, my lord, where to begin with this nonsense. The fact that law-abiding
citizens don’t go off half-cocked, spool for a fight, or are irresponsible
with their firearms goes right over her head. The identity politics angle
is just garbage. Gun rights are universal to every American. There were
Asians, blacks, pot smokers, and even pro-LGBT folks there. There was that
memorable sign, “I want gay married couples to be able to protect their
marijuana plants with guns.”

So, obviously Lavin wasn’t there, which is something that our own Julio
Rosas pointed out; he was there. As was the Washington Free Beacon’s,
Stephen Gutowski. Yet, please keep in mind that Lavin was forced out of
her so-called fact-checking job at the New Yorker after falsely accusing
an ICE agent of having a Nazi tattoo. It wasn’t. the ICE agent was a
veteran of the war in Afghanistan and the tattoo was a symbol of the
platoon he served under during the conflict. Lavin was out of a job at the
publication in June of 2018over this rake-stepping incident:

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
When New Yorker fact-checker Talia Lavin posted a series of photos on
Twitter mistakenly implying that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement
agent had a Nazi tattoo, she was quickly informed of her error. So she
deleted her tweet, and explained why in a follow-up. Within a week, she
found herself resigning from her job.

“I just feel like I made a small mistake and it’s destroyed my life,”
Lavin told the Cut…

Only a liberal would go off half-cocked unlike the tens of thousands of
law-abiding gun owners who descended on Richmond to voice their concerns
about Al Jolson’s, excuse me—Gov. Ralph Northam’s anti-gun agenda.

This is major eyeroll material, but one that will certainly be eaten up by
the snobby condescending progressives the dominate the professional Left.



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