Dana Bash sucks. Her family history is a genuine tragedy, but she wields it like a cudgel while being a nepo baby (her dad produced Good Morning America), marrying the CIA and DOD chief of staff, then going on to be a nepo wife (married John King, who gave her "Inside Politics" when he left). I wouldn't expect any more from a woman who m…
Dana Bash sucks. Her family history is a genuine tragedy, but she wields it like a cudgel while being a nepo baby (her dad produced Good Morning America), marrying the CIA and DOD chief of staff, then going on to be a nepo wife (married John King, who gave her "Inside Politics" when he left). I wouldn't expect any more from a woman who married, might I repeat, the CIA and DOD chief of staff.
Also, she talks big, but when she became a trustee of Jewish Women International, she came under scrutiny for the organization's pro-choice stance. After conservative blogs pointed out this stance, she immediately resigned. She was a major supporter of JWI because of its zionism, but the second it was pointed out that they're pro-choice, she was out of there.
She pays lip service to understanding anti-zionism is not anti-semitism at certain points in her history, but that's all it is--lip service. I do genuinely think she's terrified of a variety of things and has gone kind of off the rails because of that fear. It's not an excuse (and made even worse by her position as a rich white woman), but I do think the failure comes down to two things: her and her beliefs AND the network for allowing this terrible, terrible journalism to air.
Dana Bash sucks. Her family history is a genuine tragedy, but she wields it like a cudgel while being a nepo baby (her dad produced Good Morning America), marrying the CIA and DOD chief of staff, then going on to be a nepo wife (married John King, who gave her "Inside Politics" when he left). I wouldn't expect any more from a woman who married, might I repeat, the CIA and DOD chief of staff.
Also, she talks big, but when she became a trustee of Jewish Women International, she came under scrutiny for the organization's pro-choice stance. After conservative blogs pointed out this stance, she immediately resigned. She was a major supporter of JWI because of its zionism, but the second it was pointed out that they're pro-choice, she was out of there.
She pays lip service to understanding anti-zionism is not anti-semitism at certain points in her history, but that's all it is--lip service. I do genuinely think she's terrified of a variety of things and has gone kind of off the rails because of that fear. It's not an excuse (and made even worse by her position as a rich white woman), but I do think the failure comes down to two things: her and her beliefs AND the network for allowing this terrible, terrible journalism to air.