>Advanced Faggotry
That faggotry was so advanced that it turned me into a CNN viewer and gave me beerflu so I had to give up after the first paragraph.
>~~gives~~ gave
Whilst your first strike through is legitimate, your second is somewhat dubious.
Grammatically speaking, your second point is valid, however the present simple form of the verb is often used in media headlines and reporting to give a sense of immediacy that the past simple and correct verb tense lacks.