Massie, a libertarian Republican from Kentucky, emerged as a troublesome anti-Trump rebel motivated substantially by his opposition to Israel. He was defeated in an expensive Republican primary battle decided when President Trump endorsed his opponent: it was so expensive because anti-Jewish and anti-Isreal haters from both political parties gave generously to keep Massie on Capitol Hill. Among his fans are—no surprise— Al Jareeza, the Arab news agency, and ex-MAGA boob-turned-full-time-publicity-whore-Trump-basher Marjorie Taylor Greene. Marjorie, you may recall, claimed that the Rothschilds may have caused California wildfires using secret space lasers, and refused to support the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Bill in 2024, arguing that the measure could convict Christians for the Bible account that Jewish leaders handed Jesus over to to be crucified. I’m not a believer in guilt by association, but in the case of Marjorie Taylor Greene I could be persuaded to make an exception. Now to be fair, Massie is smarter than Marjorie.
But then so is my coffee mug.
Massie blamed AIPAC and “Zionists” for his defeat, and today, with nothing to lose, he took the House floor to deliver an alleged remembrance of the victims of the 1967 friendly fire attack by Israel on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed and another 171 wounded in the incident which, like the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is a favorite of anti-Israel conspiracy theorists. An investigation—more than one, in fact— concluded that the tragedy was the result of mistake by Israeli forces in believing they were attacking an Egyptian ship. Israel took responsibility for the disater within hours of the incident on June 8, 1967, officially apologized and later paid millions of dollars in restitution to the families of victims and to wounded survivors.
Never mind. Anti-Semites like Taylor Greene, Massie and lots and lots of powerful Democrats are convinced that the incident was one more plot by those evil Jews.
Again, this occurred in 1967. Why would a U.S. Congressman decide that it needs to be rehashed now, in 2026? I’ll give you three guesses, and the first two don’t count. We said things like that in 1967.
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When did Jew hate become so pervasive in the United States? I thought Islamophobia was the big problem. And where are Jews supposed to go? Are they being driven out of the Democrats’ ranks? Are they finally leaving? I’ve never understood how Jews could be Democrats when they are so anti-business. Of course, I’ve never understood how Jews could become card carrying Communists.
Oh, it’s all intersectionalism insanity. The Palestinians are darker than the Israelis, hence they are the oppressed victims, hence they had a right to slaughter Jewish civilians, thus the unavoidable military action against Hamas in Gaza is “genocide.” Yes, it is almost that simple. You know. Morons.
The now-dead Helen Thomas, formerly of the White House press corps and probably the most physically ugly woman in the modern era, said the quiet part out loud about 16 years ago when she said that the Jews should go home to Germany and Poland and the United States and all those other places and leave Palestine to the Palestinians.
Quiet part out loud in PUBLIC. The fact that Thomas was “beloved” by her press corps colleagues–or so we were always told—should raise questions about their biases. In my experience, anti-Semites give themselves away in many ways: I have never believed that Helen’s anti-Jewish opinions came as a surprise to anyone who worked with her.
Probably not. Her colleagues were wise enough and classy enough not to “out” her (which is a despicable thing to do), but they couldn’t stop her from outing herself.
“…probably the most physically ugly woman in the modern era…”
In the political ring, Blobfish Tlaib, Halloween DeLauro, and Mad Maxine Waters would object to not being considered in the competition.
Ugh, I feel like I’m going to turn to stone.
Janet Reno was no looker.
I still haven’t heard a reasonable answer to what strategic or tactical goal could be achieved by Israel purposefully attacking one of our ships. So the simplest answer based on everything else is that it was an accident.
There isn’t one. I almost used the Sidney Wang clip to introduce the post. It’s the ultimate stupid theory It would have made as much sense for Israel to attack a US vessel intentionally then as now.
I really wanted to reply to Massie’s video with a Sound of Music clip, but couldn’t find one that embedded properly:
“There’s a sad sort of clanging
From the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple, too;
And up in the nurs’ry
An absurd little bird
Is popping out to say “coo-coo.”
(Coo-coo, coo-coo.)”