Joy Reid Wrote About Possible 'Dual Loyalties' Of Israel Supporters, Said That AIPAC 'Holds The Whip Hand' Over U.S. Politicians

JUSTIN CARUSO
The Daily Caller
May. 31, 2018

MSNBC host Joy Reid once mused that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wore a “flak jacket” for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and wrote about the “possible ‘dual loyalties'” of Americans who support Israel, according to old blog posts that recently surfaced.

Reid also referred to AIPAC as a “powerful lobbying group that holds the whip hand over Republican and Dmeocratic [sic] members of Congress alike.”

Reid harshly criticized Blitzer, a Jewish journalist, for how he covered news about Israel. She pointed out the fact that Blitzer used to work for the pro-Israel group AIPAC, referring to him as a “former flak” of the organization.

In a 2006 post on her blog “Reid Report,” titled, “Blitzer’s bias,” she writes:

“With the Israeli ambassador, Blitzer was solicitous, even posing the incredible question of ‘what can we do’ about the deteriorating situation. We??? Would that be we Israelis or we in the United States, Wolf? Mr. Blitzer, a former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — though you’d never know it from his CNN bio — has consistently carried on that job in another form in his capacity as CNN host. He doesn’t even try to hide his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause, while turning instantly to prosecutorial mode when questioning any guest who has the dumb luck to be an Arab or Muslim in King Blitzer’s court.”

Reid also referred to AIPAC as a “powerful lobbying group that holds the whip hand over Republican and Dmeocratic [sic] members of Congress alike, and whose role in a certain series of Iran-related spying cases raises troubling questions about whether foreign agents are operating inside the United States, with the purpose of screening American foreign policy in the Middle East for the government in Tel Aviv? (Or twisting it on Israel’s behalf…)”

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