'I apologized for the way that my words made people feel'
Commenting on anti-Semitic tweets she wrote earlier this month, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) said she did not apologize for being anti-Semitic during an interview with The Intercept released on Thursday.
"You've since apologized unequivocally for the tweet. You've said rightly that anti-Semitism is real. But just to be clear, I mean we're a few weeks on now, what were you apologizing for? Was it a badly worded tweet that you were apologizing for? Or was it for being anti-Semitic, wittingly or unwittingly?" host Mehdi Hasan asked around the 12:45 mark of the audio at the link above.
"Oh absolutely not," Omar responded. "I apologized for the way that my words made people feel. Oftentimes, you know, we are in places where someone will say something, and they might not know how it makes you feel and it's not acceptable, that once you express to them that this is hurtful, that you have felt attacked by their words, they should acknowledge how you feel, they should speak to that, they should apologize and figure out a way to remedy that situation."
"That's why you apologized?" Hasan asked.
"That's why I apologized," Omar said.
"And is that why you deleted your tweets this week?" Hasan asked. "The chairwoman of the Republican Party is all over Twitter suggesting that was some sort of … bad faith move on your part."
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4 comments:
We can only hope that her term will end without a hope of her being reelected.
She is horrible, just absolutely horrible and not sorry for a damn thing she ever says.
She was swore in on the Quran which is totally illegal, and have never been allowed in our congress! We will be destroyed from with in our democrats will endorse until they are removed and it will be too late!
That sneering bitch isn't apologetic about a damn thing.
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