A Fox News contributor who appeared on Sean Hannity's program Wednesday night was widely derided for posing in a tactical vest at the southern U.S. border with Mexico.
Lawrence Jones III tweeted several photos of himself posing with U.S. Border Protection agents and appeared on Hannity's Wednesday show wearing what many mocked as a bulletproof vest.
Jones spent several hours defending himself on Twitter Thursday morning as veterans, war reporters and other notable journalists — including Roland Martin — weighed in on the matter of the tactical vest. While some social media critics edited Mexican ponchos and Elmo bookbags onto Jones, others defended journalists"playing dress-up" as a non-partisan problem.
"This is totally ridiculous," replied MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff. "I have never once worn a bulletproof vest at the border, nor has CBP ever asked me to -- even while on a chase with Border Patrol to apprehend migrants in remote Arizona desert in the middle of the night. Because. The. Border. Is. Not. A. War. Zone."Journalist Roland Martin was less constructive in his criticism of Jones, simply mocking the Fox reporter's faux-soldier appearance.
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