The great irony is that Omar didn't have to apologize, politically speaking. Major swaths of the Democratic grassroots agree with her. She represents an electorally-safe district. She could've used the controversy to gain even more leverage and support. But she got awful advice.
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Blame the cowardly, cynical liberals (and some leftists) who rushed to condemn her, setting the stage for the frenzy that ensued. It's because of them that her forceful questioning of the ghoul Elliott Abrams today, for example, will be overshadowed. These people are total idiots
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I was totally opposed to any apology wanted her to use the attention to list Israeli criminality. But given what she did w Abrams today I’m hoping she will use it, if she’s for real: I apologized outright for a slight and all you people can’t apologize for genocide?!
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She would have been censured. Fwiw, she was right but doesn't seem smart. Had she played the identity politics game, claiming "As a black woman, I feel.." she would have gotten away with this and much more.
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Yep, i think she'll learn this, to honestly just attack israel as a sitting congressmen and not be rdy for the hell ur gonna recieve is a very inexperienced move to say the least
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Yup, she should have stood her ground, for sure
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I am not certain I’ve ever seen apologies work in politics. There is never forgiveness, regardless of whether the apology was warranted or not.
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I love your work, Mike. This whole issue will all make sense to you, if you can just accept that there are good-faith progressive Jews who were offended by the "All About the Benjamins" tweet. They are real. I'm married to one.
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She should have learned from what happens to Corbyn. This beast is insatiable, it only accepts total surrender!
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Totally agree.
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She's so "delegitimized" that everyone on twitter is retweeting her kickass demolishment of a genocider today. That's how "delegitimized" Omar is. She's getting huge. The Left has simply got to get more unsimpleton about how all this shit works. Step it up. Learn. Watch.
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We don't know what threats the Dem leadership made to her. They could have been very serious.
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Didn't help that she's wasn't sincere, because she CAN'T IMAGINE why anyone would condemn her PREVIOUS ANTISEMITIC COMMENTS (which IS what she complaining about) without some heavy "Jew money" involved. Thing is she would have been dead to Dems, stripped of committee assignments.
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