The Left catapulted Valerie Plame to stardom without figuring out what she thinks (Antisemite)
CIA Agent. Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton . Apparent anti-Semite. Valerie Plame is many things.
The left-wing darling just tweeted an article accusing Jews of starting American wars. After the predictable blowback, Plame first encouraged her audience "to put aside your biases" and read the article before admitting that she "didn't do my homework on the platform."
An especially embarrassing gaffe for a veteran intelligence analyst, the UNZ.com article in question asserted, among other things, that Jews "own the media," that Jewish people should wear labels while on national television, and that their beliefs are as dangerous as "a bottle of rat poison."
One doesn't need training in espionage though to recognize the bigotry of the piece. One also doesn't need to be some sort of covert agent to recognize the flimsiness of her excuse.
While Plame insists that she was unfamiliar with the source of the bigoted article, a quick search shows that she frequents the website and often shares its content. Since 2014, Plame has posted nine UNZ articles including one titled "Why I Still Dislike Israel" and another about "Dancing Israelis" on 9/11.
Of course, Plame is entitled to her opinions and her excuses. Everyone else is also entitled to mercilessly mock the very people who have promoted her for so long, because her story provided something politically useful to them.
A young beltway socialite, Plame was catapulted to stardom in 2003 when her name appeared in a Washington Post column. While working as a CIA operations officer, according to conservative columnist Robert Novak, she had recommended sending her husband, a former ambassador, to investigate the production of yellowcake uranium in Niger.
The Left accused the Bush White House of outing Plame in the press as retribution for her husband's opposition to the war. (It came out much later that Novak had actually learned about her involvement from Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.) She was cast as a victim, becoming a cause célèbre overnight. She was quoted, booked on television, and handed a book deal.
Plame's star faded when Bush left office and she found other pursuits. Recently she was a bundler for Hillary Clinton's ill-fated presidential campaign and launched a campaign to buy Twitter in-order to delete President Trump's account.
That painful ordeal could've been avoided had the Left vetted Plame. If someone bothered to find out what she really thought, if they would've "done their homework," they could've avoided elevating an anti-Semite.
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That painful ordeal could've been avoided had the Left vetted Plame. If someone bothered to find out what she really thought, if they would've "done their homework," they could've avoided elevating an anti-Semite.
Kind of like the vetting that Stephen Miller, an avowed open white nationalist or Sebastian Gorka who openly wore the medal of Vitezi Rend, a Nazi organization, or maybe that's EXACTLY what the Trump administration wanted! Strange how the right can now want to that was missed but yet Plame's anti-Semite "comments" wasn't, especially from the right!
That painful ordeal could've been avoided had the Left vetted Plame. If someone bothered to find out what she really thought, if they would've "done their homework," they could've avoided elevating an anti-Semite.
What is truly amazing about all of this is that despite the anti-Semite comments of Plame AND others in the progressive establishment AND former Presidents Obama & Carter's frosty treatment of Israel - American Jews support the left anyway:
"The reality is that most American Jews, while not necessarily economic liberals, are definitely social liberals who would find it difficult to support a staunchly pro-Israel conservative candidate like Michelle Bachmann. The term “knee-jerk liberal” or “knee-jerk Democrat” certainly applies here, and while most American Jews would decry such a characterization, the facts validate its veracity. In 1980, Ronald Reagan ran against incumbent Jimmy Carter, whose anti-Israel credentials certainly rival those of Obama.
When Reagan succeeded in capturing 35% of the Jewish vote, it was considered a major accomplishment, as many independent-minded Jews for whom Israel was a highpriority issue shifted to the other side of the aisle; but the majority remained faithful to the overall Democratic agenda and rationalized away the anti-Israel feeling that Carter conveyed."
In other words, at least for most American Jews, liberal ideology is baked right into the culture, thus progressives get to take them for granted.
Wegmann is full of crap. The Bush DOJ accused the Bush White House of outing Plame because they DID out Plame. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was a member of the Bush White House.
BTW, I don't care one wit about Plame's politics or what she did after she had to leave the CIA. She was an undercover CIA agent whose family and whose foreign operatives were put in danger for political reasons.
I'm pretty sure that a review of Wegmann's twitter feed will reveal that he hasn't properly vetted each and every link that he's passed on. Plame apologized, profusely, butt Wegmann and his ilk desperately need to attack anyone on the left that makes a mistake to keep those 'shinny objects' coming...
Note that they rarely if ever hold their own supporters to the same standard of perfection.