Valerie Plame may have once claimed that it was evil Republicans that illegally outed her as an undercover CIA operative (she wasn’t, she was openly employed as a desk jockey working in Langley), but the same Valerie Plame is having a rough go of it explaining her retweet of a call to place “warning labels” on America’s Jews.
In a long since deleted message sent via Twitter, Plame plainly sent just the title of an article from something calling itself The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media, Plame linked to a certain article that calls for making everything old (Nazi), new again.
With a title that leaves little to the imagination, Plame did her bit to popularize America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars, penned by a certain Philip Giraldi.
In Giraldi’s biography on the decidedly leftist Huffington Post, he’s touted as a “former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer”, despite independent verification being rather hard to come by.
But with all that aside, here’s some of the Giraldi’s wordsmithing that Plame re-tweeted; (emphasis mine)
For those American Jews who lack any shred of integrity, the media should be required to label them at the bottom of the television screen whenever they pop up, e.g. Bill Kristol is “Jewish and an outspoken supporter of the state of Israel.” That would be kind-of-like a warning label on a bottle of rat poison – translating roughly as “ingest even the tiniest little dosage of the nonsense spewed by Bill Kristol at your own peril.”
Hmmm… warning labels on Jews. What a concept.
For her part, Plame posted a flurry of tweets in a pathetic attempt to cover her six. Just one short minute later, she fired off;
1) First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don’t imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish. https://t.co/m5oGgKPo2a
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
So what? Many neocon hawks are Scottish Presbyterians, many neocon hawks are Mexican Catholics, many neocon hawks are (insert race here) agnostics. On the flip-side of the coin, there are many American Jews who are hard-core appeasement at any cost Obamaistas.
2) Just FYI, I am of Jewish decent. I am not in favor of war with Iran, or getting out of the Iran nuclear treaty. There are simply https://t.co/AR3Jsl1yml
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
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So now she plays the “but I’m Jewish, too” card? Yet again, I’m forced to ask, so what?
But wait… I’m confused. First she bemoans how so many American Jews are neocon hawks, then she blows her own argument out of the water with her “but I’m Jewish, too”. Is it just me or is Plame starting to flounder a bit?
3) too many who are so ready to go to war. Haven’t we had enough for awhile?
4) Read the entire article and try, just for a moment, to https://t.co/wyd3uJ06nt— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
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put aside your biases and think clearly. https://t.co/dHsVF8ZCH6
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
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Yeah, she’s panicking.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>I missed gross undercurrents to this article & didn’t do my homework on the platform this piece came from. Now that I see it, it’s obvious.</p>— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) <a href=”https://twitter.com/ValeriePlame/status/910914329138130944″>September 21, 2017</a></blockquote>
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She “missed gross undercurrents”? What part of America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars did she not understand?
But choosing not to leave well enough alone, when Plame hits rock bottom, she starts digging a hole, possibly in a bid to break the land speed record of going through the five stages of grief.
Apologies all. There is so much there that’s problematic AF and I should have recognized it sooner. Thank you for pushing me to look again.
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
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I’m not perfect and make mistakes. This was a doozy. All I can do is admit them, try to be better, and read more thoroughly next time. Ugh.
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
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OK folks, look, I messed up. I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest.
— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017
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