On Tuesday, New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait decided to attack and mock the aging World War Two veterans visiting Washington, D.C. by suggesting in a tweet that the memorial put up in their honor be outfitted with tank traps and manned by aging Nazi soldiers, Breitbart.com reported Wednesday.
"Idea: fortify WWII memorial with tank traps and pillboxes manned by elderly Germans," he tweeted.
Warner Todd Huston called Chait's tweet a "pretty hard-hearted 'joke,'" given that many of the veterans are in their late 80s and 90s and might not be able to make the trip again.
Chait later claimed he was mocking tourists, not the veterans, but Twitter users weren't buying it.
"Also, the joke was on the idea that the memorial would be blocked to tourists, not on the tourists," he tweeted.
"Great joke, keep explaining it," one person said in response.
"[Y]eah, cuz jokes you gotta explain are awesome," another person added.
Chait later played the victim card, claiming he was being targeted.
"Left and right both whip up fake-outrage mobs online, but conservative fake-outrage-ists seem more taken with violent fantasies," he claimed.
"[T]his from the man who wants Nazis guarding Monuments while the left wants tanks firing on Congress," one person said, referencing an article in the liberal New Republic implying Obama should use tanks against members of the Tea Party.
Twitchy said Chait wasn't the only liberal "reporter" mocking veterans over the shutdown.
"Going up to Gettysburg tomorrow to see if Civil War veterans are storming the battlefield," tweeted Daily Beast writer Ben Jacobs.
"Say that to a marine, coward," one person told Jacobs.
On Tuesday, Twitchy said World War Two veterans knocked down the barricades erected at the memorial.
According to Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office, the White House and the Department of the Interior knew of the request to visit the memorial in advance, but rejected it.
"Palazzo," Charles C. Johnson wrote at the Daily Caller, "helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service Tuesday, when the heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial."
Palazzo said he believes the White House played politics by making it harder on veterans visiting the memorial.
The visits, he said, are planned a year in advance and cost anywhere between $80,000 to $100,000.
"How low can you get with playing politics over our nation’s veterans?” he asked.
Veterans in future visits to the memorial have been told they could face arrest.
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