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Big Journalism's Dana Loesch Does Not Apologize for Publishing Nazi Cartoon

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lawhawk12/16/2011 1:44:06 pm PST

Let me see if I’ve got the timeline right here.

This was a cartoon first published in 1942 in an anti-Semitic posting to support the ongoing Nazi regime.

Breitbart’s outfit, as edited by Dana Loesch, then uses a recycled version (take out the Star of David, adjust the nose, add Media Bias) but otherwise keeps the cartoon identical on January 8, July 2, and then this week (December 15).

It’s used three separate times, and only after the third time, does Media Matters note its use and highlights its anti-Semitic origins.

The response from Breitbart and Loesch? Not to admit that they screwed up for using it, but to attack those who highlight its origins.

Then, they have the audacity to claim that Joel Pollak noticed the graphic, and alerted Dana that Joel suspected it was a recycled anti-Jewish cartoon. (Dana notes that he’s an Orthodox Jew with a degree in Jewish Studies, so he tends to pick up on these things.) If that’s the case, why didn’t he pick up that the first two times it ran.

Seems that they had no problem with it running the first two times, and are only complaining about being caught when it ran a third time after being exposed by Media Matters and Charles.

Frickin’ crybabies. Own up to screwing up and move on. Show some frickin’ journalistic integrity that you claim is lacking everywhere else in the media (but which seems to be wholly lacking from right wing echo chamber sites like Big (fill in the blank) and Breitbart in general.