The Bigotry of Valerie Plame
Published at 10:48 on 21 September 2017
Yes, that Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson’s wife, the ex-CIA agent. First she tweets:
Then 90 minutes or so later she makes a feeble attempt at walking it back:
And yes, it’s a feeble attempt. If she “zeroed in on the neocon criticism,” then why mention Jewishness at all, if the problem is neoconservatives? Why retweet the subject, which was “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars.” Not “America’s Neocons” or even “America’s Jewish Neocons”, but “America’s Jews” as a whole. The problem was identified as Jewishness, not political ideology.
That an article so titled would resonate with her (to the point of prompting an instinctive retweet) points to deeply-held antisemitic attitudes on her part. That’s a far bigger problem that a simple “Oopsie!” can atone for.