Valerie Plame Apologizes For Tweeting Out A Story Which Blames American Jews For Foreign Wars

On Thursday, mega lib icon and former CIA operative Valerie Plame tweeted out this article:

America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars https://t.co/oUH7b0QPMt

— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017

If it looks like she tweeted out an article which blames American Jews for foreign wars, it’s because she tweeted out an article which blames American Jews for foreign wars.

Here are a few tidbits from the article. There’s this:

I spoke recently at a conference on America’s war party where afterwards an elderly gentleman came up to me and asked, “Why doesn’t anyone ever speak honestly about the six-hundred-pound gorilla in the room? Nobody has mentioned Israel in this conference and we all know it’s American Jews with all their money and power who are supporting every war in the Middle East for Netanyahu? Shouldn’t we start calling them out and not letting them get away with it?”

This:

So it is safe to say that much of the agitation to do something about Iran comes from Israel and from American Jews…

 

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.”

And this:

As none of the above is likely to happen, the only alternative is for American citizens who are tired of having their country’s national security interests hijacked by a group that is in thrall to a foreign government to become more assertive about what is happening. Shine a little light into the darkness and recognize who is being diddled and by whom. Call it like it is. And if someone’s feelings are hurt, too bad. We don’t need a war with Iran because Israel wants one and some rich and powerful American Jews are happy to deliver. Seriously, we don’t need it.”

I think you get the idea. You can read the entire thing here.

People immediately wondered WTH she was thinking.

Can’t believe I didn’t recognize Valerie Plame before pic.twitter.com/hoeT6MWsrZ

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) September 21, 2017

Valerie Plame should be ashamed of herself for tweeting such anti-Semitic nonsense pic.twitter.com/uUnyknHxxg

— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) September 21, 2017

Valerie Plame sounds awfully anti-semitic.. pic.twitter.com/MBbrcOWuMe

— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) September 21, 2017

I’m assuming her account was hacked.

— eli friedmann (@eligit) September 21, 2017

Just to be clear: are we 100% sure she is making all these tweets?

— eli friedmann (@eligit) September 21, 2017

She backtracked. Kinda.

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

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

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

put aside your biases and think clearly. https://t.co/dHsVF8ZCH6

— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017

Open your mind!

An hour later, she ate her own words.

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

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.

— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) September 21, 2017

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

There’s so much that is “problematic AF,” you guys. So much. AF.

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

Either 1.) Plame is telling the truth and admitting that she doesn’t actually read articles she tweets or 2.) She really DID read it and really DID agree with it but decided to backtrack once everyone turned on her.

Either way, she’s an idiot.