{"id":2667,"date":"2017-09-21T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2017-09-22T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T00:48:42","slug":"the-bigotry-of-valerie-plame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"The Bigotry of Valerie Plame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,\u00a0<em>that<\/em> Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson&#8217;s wife, the ex-CIA agent. First she tweets:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_bigotry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2666\" src=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_bigotry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_bigotry.png 585w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_bigotry-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_bigotry-500x202.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then 90 minutes or so later she makes a feeble attempt at walking it back:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_walk_back_attempt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2665\" src=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_walk_back_attempt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_walk_back_attempt.png 589w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_walk_back_attempt-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plame_walk_back_attempt-500x220.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, it&#8217;s a feeble attempt. If she &#8220;zeroed in on the neocon criticism,&#8221; then why mention Jewishness at all, if the problem is neoconservatives?\u00a0Why retweet the subject, which was &#8220;<strong>America&#8217;s Jews<\/strong> Are Driving America&#8217;s Wars.&#8221; Not &#8220;America&#8217;s Neocons&#8221; or even &#8220;America&#8217;s Jewish Neocons&#8221;, but &#8220;America&#8217;s Jews&#8221; as a whole. The problem was identified as Jewishness, not political ideology.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s a far bigger problem that a simple &#8220;Oopsie!&#8221; can atone for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes,\u00a0that Valerie Plame, Joseph Wilson&#8217;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&#8217;s a feeble attempt. If she &#8220;zeroed in on the neocon criticism,&#8221; then why mention Jewishness at all, if the problem is neoconservatives?\u00a0Why retweet the subject, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}