September 4, 2012 - 10:37 pm
Probably not. But that’s as good an explanation as any of her exploiting Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren with an outright lie, claiming Oren said Republican policies toward Israel were “dangerous.” Oren – one of the smartest guys around – would never say anything like that and issued an unequivocal denial. The execrable Wasserman-Schultz then doubled down on her lie and said she had been misquoted. She hadn’t, as an audio tape from Phillip Klein at the Examiner shows. Klein broke this sorry story. Read about it here. Wasserman-Schultz continues to be one of the most wretched figures in American politics. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party dropped reference to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel from its platform. And the beat goes on.
Deborah Whatshername has no idea what words are coming out of her mouth.
Maybe when she grows up she can be Joebiden.
DWS (no way am I going to type out that hyphenated mess) doesn’t hate Israel. Oh, no; perish the thought! Like almost all gentry-class Jews now, though, she does find it to be a profound embarrassment and a threat to her place in the gentry. She would do nothing direct to hurt Israel, BUT if it were no longer a factor, she and many others like her would sigh with relief…
What do you expect from using schmaltz in her hair?
Roger – You wrote: “The execrable Wasserman-Schultz then doubled down on her lie and said she had been misquoted.” Of course she was misquoted. After all, she’s a Leftist and being a Leftist means that the truth is what you want it to be, not what is. In her reality, her truth is she was misquoted, and that voice you hear on the tape, which sounds just like hers, has to be someone else; give it no mind.
Morton Doodslag @3: Terrific!
Last week, she misquoted the LA Times, and doubled down on stupid even after being confronted by Anderson Cooper about it.
This week, the Israeli ambassador got his turn, and she stuck by her story even when confronted with the evidence.
Things happen in threes, they say……so who’s next?
Wasserman is simply taking the addage ‘Perception is reality” to it’s logical extreme. If it does not fit in the narritive it is illegitimate or does not exist.
“Does Deborah Wasserman-Schultz Hate Israel?
Probably not….”
Well, you’re allowed to define your own terms within reason, of course, but I’d say that it is definitely a form of hate when she uses the Israeli ambassador’s name and the interests of his country in propagating a lie intended to serve the base political interests of the Democratic party and herself. When one person uses another to satisfy their own needs without regard to the needs or well-being of that other, I think that is an act of hate. That’s how Wasserman-Schultz used Oren and Israel.
I think DWS hates the GOP more than Israel (and loves Baracky more that the truth itself).
She’s a Democrat, of course she hates Israel. I’m surprised they haven’t adopted “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” in their platform officially.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz loves power. She will do and say whatever she believes will provide it. Since her power comes from being elected as a Democrat, she will do what serves her party, and the leader of her party.
This includes—indeed, it starts with—saying whatever she believes will serve herself, her elected position, and her party. Objective reality has nothing to do with it. Therefore, if she wants the Jews in her district to vote Democrat—and she does—she will say anything that she believes will urge them to do so. She knows that most Jews vote Democrat by reflexive, ingrained habit, so if she says something objectively false about Israel and its attitude towards the Republicans, she will help her cause. She knows what she says will be widely reported, merely because of her position—and the retraction will not be, and most people will not fact-check what she said.
She does not “hate” Israel; she probably does not even think about Israel more than considering it a buzzword to mobilize a portion of her electorate. But whether or not Israel means anything more to her than a buzzword, she loves her power and her career more than any damage she causes Israel, or the US. She simply does not care about anything other than herself.