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By Nia-Malika Henderson February 3 at 11:01 AM
Associated Press photo of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
In this day and age, every elected official should speak and act like every single thing they do and say is being recorded and at some point will become public. And that's especially true if your tenure as the head of an organization has been as rocky as Debbie Wasserman Schultz's at the Democratic National Committee.
A Florida-based political blog, has posted audio of Wasserman Schultz speaking at a recent Jewish Federation event in Miami where she said "Islamic fundamentalists" -- a phrase Republicans have criticized the White House for not utilizing-- and went on to criticize MSNBC, the go-to network for liberals.
Unfortunately what happens, particularly with the global war on terror and the Islamic fundamentalists that are combating and leading it, we are the crux of the reason that they are engaged in that fight, Wasserman Schultz said.
Wasserman Schultz went on to knock MSNBC for its coverage of Gaza.
Clearly they were highlighting what Israel had done to Gaza and the plight of Palestinians, she said. And my first thought was, 'Where is the balance, where is the spotlight on what Jewish children in Israel go through from being victims of rocket attacks ... in Southern Israel and the constant needing to flee into a bomb shelter.'
Will Wasserman Schultz join Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) in publicly criticizing the Obama administration for not talking about "radical Islam," when they talk about terrorism? Probably not.
What we know about politicians is that they say different things in public than they do in private. Call it pandering, call it a public transcript versus a hidden one. It can be damaging -- Mitt Romney and "47 percent," and then-candidate Barack Obama's spiel about clinging to guns and religion. A South Florida Sun Sentinel columnist recently asked, "Could Debbie Wasserman Schultz win a Senate race?" Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) could run for president, which would leave an open seat for 2016. Wasserman Schultz has obviously built her fundraising prowess in her current job, and while she is one of the most liberal Democrats on Florida's bench, that bench is notoriously thin. In other words, Democrats could do worse than her.
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Nia-Malika Henderson is a political reporter for The Fix.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/18/how-gender-mattered-in-the-rise-and-fall-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz/
ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)She's a Member of Congress, and has to run every two years in a District that has that as a key constituency and outlook on events in the Mideast. This is part of the reason she was selected as DNC Chair, and a large part of the reason she is now criticizing Obama. In that specific, she shares something with the GOP.
ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)F Her, DWS and her ILK, the corporate crowd, they all are the single biggest problem with the DNC Today.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)I do wish the party moguls would widen the job search.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I've never been quite sure about her. That sounds like something her dad Mike would say. He is a vicious homophobe who flipped from R to D while a state senator. The Dems actually caucused to decide if they wanted him!
RandiFan1290
(6,365 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Maybe we should help her out?
tridim
(45,358 posts)She's not even close to the right person for the job.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)kydo
(2,679 posts)MSNBC does have some progressive, liberal programing. But it also has lots of right winged faux type programing. And then there's the lock up.
However for DWS to say what she did was more the kettle calling the pot black. She ain't exactly getting the progressive/liberal message out the way we it should be.
They are both part of the problem.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)it's stretching to make these comments into a scandal. Her comments are lame, but they are not damaging to her. I could easily see her making the same comments on TV, even on MSNBC itself.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)by the hundreds under precision guided weaponry, jet launched missiles and artillery....there is plenty of selective outrage going on.
Gaza kids dead 500, Israel kids dead 0.
She is right, "....where is the balance?"
Bad Granny
(28 posts)Not when she worked against Democratic candidates and with the enemies in the GOP from Florida.
But what do you expect from a DLCer?
SamKnause
(13,740 posts)so I can't fault her for that.
As chairwoman of the DNC she sucks.
Her opinion of Israel is one sided.
AIPAC sucks.
I wish all of our politicians that love Israel would move there.
We have enough lying assholes in our government.
We don't need more lying assholes that are more concerned with Israel than they are with the needs and concerns of the U.S.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,206 posts)...and I'm not so sure about you.
SamKnause
(13,740 posts)Do you think MSNBC tells the truth ?
Do you think Morning Joe is liberal and tells the truth ?
Do you think AIPAC members tell the truth about Israel ?
Do you think Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells the truth ?
I have watched her tell lies on Real Time.
Do you think she did a good job in 2014 ?
Alan Grayson tells the truth.
Bernie Sanders tells the truth.
Elizabeth Warren tells the truth.
Why the insult ?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,206 posts)Really.
SamKnause
(13,740 posts)You and yours have a safe and pleasant evening.
QC
(26,371 posts)No surprise here.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)I don't like it and I'm not a great fan of hers, but that's pretty much the bottom line.