Posted on 03/17/2016 4:50:34 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
In a Tuesday night special about Republican Donald Trump invigorating first-time voters, PBS NewsHour profiled a woman volunteering for the campaign who had prominently visible tattoos of widely recognized white power symbols.
In the segment, which was first flagged by Gawker, PBS profiles Grace Tilly, who is shown making calls at a Trump campaign phone bank in North Carolina.
“This is my first time voting,” Tilly tells the camera. “Being 33, that’s kind of crazy, but it says a lot.”
While Tilly makes a call, her tattoo of a symbol that Gawker identified as a Celtic Cross is easily visible on her right hand.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Celtic Cross is used by neo-Nazis, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and “virtually every other type of white supremacist.” The symbol is also used in the logo for Stormfront, an online hub for white supremacists.
Gawker also identified the tattoo on Tilly’s other hand as the number 88 which, according to the ADL, is white supremacist shorthand for “Heil Hitler.”
PBS made no mention of the symbols in the story, Gawker said.
A TPM request for comment from PBS NewsHour was not immediately returned Wednesday afternoon.
You can watch a clip of the segment over at Gawker.
This is it! Trump’s poll numbers will tank now, I tell ya!
It took them several months, but they finally found one!
Anti-Defamation League certainly seems to be one sided with whom it picks as hate groups or peoples
Sounds like the same swill that Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved have been selling on Salem radio. They push the line that Trump failed to repudiate the KKK.
....guess next week they will look into the back ground of Soros and move on.....
How many communist symbols do we see featured on Hillary and Bernie supporters?
Found one, or inserted one.
The uniparty won’t go down without a fight.
Lie, Cheat, Steal, it’s all on the table.
What a cheap trick.
...and in the meantime Cruz has ‘crazy beck’; ‘gay linda graham’ and ‘crybaby jeb bush’...
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Celtic Cross is used by neo-Nazis, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and “virtually every other type of white supremacist.” The symbol is also used in the logo for Stormfront, an online hub for white supremacists.
It’s also used by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a number of other Presbyterian denominations, churches and organizations, but I guess that’s irrelevant . . . .
I thought the KKK endorsed Hillary on Tuesday
...and why did that only get a 2 second blip on CNN?
To repudiate the KKK is to repudiate the Democrat Party and its former military wing.
88, not so much...
A friend got a Celtic Cross tattoo today because she is Irish. I guess I will have to tell her she is actually a white supremacist.
Perhaps her child was born in 1988. Who knows! :-)
That’s a different Celtic Cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_cross
And in this instance, it appears they also will use tax monies to that end.
The LSM passed crying wolf a LONG time ago now.
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