UPDATE: Rejected!
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Bagley will fit right in on Biden’s team of Leftist anti-Semites: Hady Amr, Robert Malley and so many others.
“‘The Jewish Factor, It’s Money’: Biden Ambassador Pick Under Fire for Anti-Semitic Tirade,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, June 22, 2022 5:45 pm
The Biden administration’s nominee to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Brazil spoke at length about the influence of Jewish money in politics, claiming the “Jewish lobby” exerts undue influence over the Democratic Party with its “major money.”
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, a longtime diplomat and Democratic Party insider, is scheduled on Thursday to have her nomination advanced to the full Senate by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But Bagley’s comments about Jewish money in politics—tropes long considered anti-Semitic in nature—are raising red flags among Democratic and Republican members of the committee, senior congressional sources told the Washington Free Beacon.
Bagley, in a 1998 interview, a full copy of which was obtained by the Free Beacon, bemoaned “the influence of the Jewish lobby because there is major money involved.” She went on to claim “the Democrats always tend to go with the Jewish constituency on Israel and say stupid things, like moving the capital to Jerusalem always comes up.” Support for these Israel-related issues are due to “the Jewish factor, it’s money.” The interview was conducted by a historian at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training for an oral history project….
Bagley opened up about the “Jewish lobby” and its impact on Democratic Party politics in the 1998 interview. She was asked about “the Israeli influence” on the Clinton administration, where Bagley served as the ambassador to Portugal.
“There is always the influence of the Jewish lobby because there is major money involved,” Bagley said. “But, I don’t remember any major issues coming out on that, besides the usual ‘make Jerusalem the capital of Israel,’ which is always an issue in the campaign.”
Democrats, she said, “always tend to go with the Jewish constituency on Israel and say stupid things, like moving the capital to Jerusalem always comes up. Things that we shouldn’t even touch.”
“Jewish Democrats,” she continued, “were going to give their money to Clinton anyway and Jews are mostly Democrats on social issues.”
The “Jewish factor” is not about the raw number of electors who care about these issues, Bagley said, “it’s money.”
When questioned about these remarks during a May 18 confirmation hearing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bagley claimed they were the result of a “free-flowing discussion” with the interviewer.
“The language you used in regard to the Jewish community, Israel’s influence on our election, and Jewish money have me concerned,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.) said during the hearing. “The choice of words was fit into the traditional tropes of anti-Semitism.”
“I regret that you would think that it was a problem,” Bagley told Cardin. “I certainly didn’t mean anything by it. It was a poor choice of words, but it was something that the interviewer had asked me, prompted by something about politics.”
Bagley added that she is “very sorry about that choice of words.”…
Robert_k says
Bagley is sorry she got caught.
VICTORMc. says
YES as ever with these things it’s not the ‘crime’ it’s always the ‘cover-up’ that catches you. Look round the world Bagley (how suitable the name)
Infidel says
Hopefully, enough Jews have woken up by now and switched sides. I understand their desire not to be counted as Christians, but wokeness is as big a threat to Judaism as it is to all real religions. Note that I didn’t mention islam
Wellington says
Noted, Infidel.
Kenneth J Johnson says
I am surpised at the number of anti semites Bidens handlers can find.
I always thought that the number ws small A Jewish friend iof mine toild me
that I have been living with blinders. KEN
Infidel says
Oh no, there are plenty, on both the Left and the Right. The ones on the Right are mostly in reaction to liberal/Left leaning Jews
gravenimage says
Oh, there are genuine antisemites on the hard right, too–but many don’t realize how common this is on the hard Left. And with Muslims, needless to say…
Walter Sieruk says
Who else but a thoroughly anti-Jewish person would Joe Biden chose for an important US government position since Biden is a friend the Jew and Israel hating PA ,Mahmoud Abbas. As Biden also likes Hamas and Hezbollah and greatly favors that hostile vicious anti- Jewish ,anti- Israel and als anti- America agressive tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
Elizabeth Bagley is anti-Jewish that she is, in essence, very un-American. As the late US President, William Howard Taft , wisely, declared in a speech that “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Wellington says
Rather fitting in a perverse historical way since many Nazis fled to various South American countries, including Brazil, as WWII was drawing to a close.
tgusa says
I watched a modern day investigation in to the post WWII Nazi escape routes. Very interesting and well done but a bit slow and repetitive at times. The people in it were not out of Hollywood. The different routes were snake like. The series name is, Hunting Hitler.
gravenimage says
Biden’s pick for ambassador to Brazil railed against ‘the Jewish factor, it’s money’
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Just sickening–but not surprising. Glad Elizabeth Frawley Bagley was caught. Kudos to the Washington Free Beacon for reporting this story.
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“Jewish Democrats,” she continued, “were going to give their money to Clinton anyway and Jews are mostly Democrats on social issues.”
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More disdain for Jewish voters. And I have heard Democrats speaking similarly about other voters, such as Blacks and other minorities. Of course, this is a major reason why more are voting Republican.
tgusa says
She used the “Jewish factor” because using the “Jewish question” has already been used and still has terrible connotations. What a ditz she is.
Andrew Blackadder says
I wonder what the reaction would be if she said something about the influence of the Vatican or Catholics in American politics, the amount of money the Churches pour into any given candidate for supporting anti abortion or the such like, why is it always the Jews that have money in politics, are all the other religions broke? How many Jews are in the top Job of the IMF. UNICEF, World Bank, CEOs of the most powerful Companies, and if the Jews were running the world I would think they would have a larger country….
Dont you?.
VICTORMc. says
IF only…..If the Jews and Israel were running the world it would be a far far better place than it is now. But never forget the words of Gadaffi…” we don’t need guns we will breed you all out of existence”