Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the Democratic National Committee’s new Jewish outreach liaison should be forgiven for her 6-year-old Facebook post that used the term “Jewbags.”
Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the DNC’s chairwoman, highlighted the problems that social media can cause in standing by Danielle “Dani” Gilbert, who has apologized for the post. Both Wasserman Schultz and Gilbert are Jewish.
“She was 20 when she posted that picture,” Wasserman Schultz said in response to a reporter’s question at a Florida campaign event. “I spoke to my own children and gave that unfortunate posting as an example of how, no matter what you think is funny among your friends, nothing on social media is private.”
Gilbert was a former staffer in Wasserman Schultz’s legislative office. Her parents are financial supporters of Wasserman Schultz and President Barack Obama.
After her appointment to the new role of Jewish outreach liaison for the DNC was announced, the conservative Washington Free Beacon unearthed the Facebook photos of Gilbert jokingly referring to herself and her friends using the terms “Jewbags” and the “Jew cash-money team.”
Gilbert apologized last week through a Twitter post. — jta