If Ilhan Omar were an evangelical Christian, do you think the Minnesota establishment media would be acting this way? Neither do I.
“Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Perjury Evidence Blacked Out by Minnesota Media,” by David Steinberg, PJ Media, August 12, 2018:
According to CNN, 100 or more newspapers will publish editorials attacking President Trump on August 16.
Meanwhile, Minnesota’s largest newspapers — along with every other mainstream outlet in the country — just whiffed on covering this: Signed, notarized court documents and time-stamped photos showing the Democratic frontrunner for Minnesota’s highest-profile House seat appearing to commit perjury.
The common newsroom explanation, often valid, for having passed on a particular story — “we couldn’t independently verify it” — simply does not apply here. The evidence, reposted below, against Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-60B) consists of nothing but certified court filings and archived social media posts.
These court records are publicly available: Anyone can enter the Hennepin County District Court Records Center, sit at a self-service terminal, and retrieve them. The social media posts (which have since been deleted from Ilhan Omar’s and her ex-husband’s Instagram accounts) are easily verifiable by a novice, let alone a modern digital news outlet.
These court records do not describe decades-old college misdemeanors. They are from 2017.
This story was never obscure; the 2016 coverage of Rep. Omar’s marriage — which presumably motivated her filing for default divorce just a few months later — was global. Frankly, these court records may depict the most (only?) high-profile default divorce in U.S. political history.
If forced to provide an excuse, I expect most mainstream outlets will claim to have avoided the story because of its related salacious aspect: That Omar married her own brother to assist him in committing immigration fraud or some other crime. Yet even without regard for the (objectively convincing) evidence of that allegation, that excuse would be the most easily dismissed. We’ve seen how the nation’s mainstream newsrooms responded to an unverified “pee tape.”
Most importantly, however, the perjury evidence is entirely separate from the more sensational charge.
And perjury is yet another topic about which these outlets do not have a track record of extreme caution.
Phyllis Kahn is the 22-term incumbent whom Ilhan Omar defeated in 2016. Kahn, perhaps the only Democrat with no reason to fear speaking candidly on Omar, did so last week during an interview with The Intercept:
[Kahn] said without prompt that Omar was “anti-Semitic,” and that “the story about the two husbands is completely true,” referring to a 2016 controversy in which Omar was accused of being a bigamist who married her brother to commit immigration fraud. At the time, Omar said in a statement that the rumors about her personal life were “absolutely false and ridiculous.” Kahn, apparently, is not convinced. She said, “This kind of Minnesota niceness, or whatever, of not wanting to appear racist — it’s something no one’s willing to go after her for.”
Kahn mentions only part of the story. Party identification and Omar’s frontrunner status should be considered the primary reasons for the media silence. Nonetheless, Kahn’s comments will be valuable should Omar win on Tuesday and the pressure intensify for media to explain the blackout.
Read the rest here.
elee says
She’s got opponents, right? It’s a free country, anyone can pick up the phone and talk to anyone. Are you from Minnesota? Don’t gripe about “mainstream media,” pick up your telephone and your keyboard and get hot!
Anton Filipenkov says
That’s not about this particular election. It’s about the media. It’s about a dangerous tendency of concealing the truth about Muslim crimes, about Muslims’ desire to get into politics, about changing the rules in their favor, about the danger of imposing Sharia.
lebel says
It’s about being a Muslim and being guilty based on allegations.
Here’s another catch 22. If you don’t participate in politics it’s because you won’t integrate and Islam hates democracy. If you do participate it’s stealth jihad.
Anton Filipenkov says
And does your sarcasm contradict the holy texts? Maybe we see that growing percentage of Muslims in no way influence the society, crime rates, changing of certain communities?
SAE says
Allegations!?!
If possible, perhaps you should have someone read the article to you lebel. When there’s definitive proof it’s called EVIDENCE not ALLEGATIONS. Obviously, English is not your first language, sense you’re definitely deficient in reading comprehension and processing facts.
The United States should reinstate competency and literacy tests before allowing people to set foot in this great nation, along with other stringent criteria.
gravenimage says
What tripe from Lebel. Supremacist Muslims do not take public offices in order to integrate.
Good posts, Anton and SAE.
James Lincoln says
Lebel,
This should not be framed as a Catch-22.
Best case scenario would be that the Muslim becomes an ex-Muslim. That will allow them to fully integrate. Islam is not compatible with Western society.
If a Muslim participates in politics, it’s inevitable that the decisions they make will be compatible with Islam / Sharia, and bad for Western society. They take their oath of office on the Koran.
StellaSaidSo says
The only way for a Muslim to properly integrate into civilised society is by becoming an ex-Muslim.
Joe Felon says
allegations you say? its past the point of being alleged if there is proof and its already been proven. the point is that the main stream media dare not question muslims and intentionally hide or distort inconvenient facts. islam gets a free pass and if anyone dares to speak the truth about the dangers involved they are branded an islamophobe…and then the muslim plays the victim.
J D S says
Muslims expect, Even demand that they be given preference, not only in politics but everywhere and in everything…….and the traitorous MSM seems to be doing everything in their power to see that the Muslims get what they demand.
Now if that isn’t fact then the whole western world is wrong. Can they not see what Islamic adherents are doing?
Are they not interested in saving our American way of life that so much blood has been spilled to protect?And now all these newspapers , a hundred or more, I think, are going to put up a fight against our president with all kinds of rhetorical nonsense… it what galls me mostly is the FACT that there is a group of people out there that gobble up all that all the MSM outlets produce..traitors All!
Bruce says
That’s Right!
Andy says
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Her opponent better not say anything about her felonies. She’s a Moslima; bringing up unpleasant facts would be religious bigotry.
PRCS says
Good to know you’re still alive.
My Dad was born/reared in Rogers. The current Democratic party is not his Democratic party.
Don’t think the DFL ever was.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As the so-called Democratic Party has shifted into a form of full-on socialism, and the globalism and (reverse) racism that brings, the Democrats in MN have followed.
I remember when Rogers was the very northwest edge of the Twin Cities. Now it’s 20 more miles on I-94 before the forest and cornfields start.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I remember when Rogers was at the very edge. Now there are two more big suburbs beyond it.
PRCS says
His family sold “the farm” some years ago–to real estate developers.
Leo Smith says
Typical CRIMINAL activity from the Democrats(Socialist)
StellaSaidSo says
We see the same pattern of behaviour from Muslims and their leftist enablers throughout the West. Totalitarians are birds of a feather. Power – at any price – is their sole purpose.
mortimer says
Immigration Fraud
18 USC Sec. 1542
Sec. 1542. False statement in application and use of passport
Whoever willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in an
application for passport with intent to induce or secure the
issuance of a passport under the authority of the United States,
either for his own use or the use of another, contrary to the laws
regulating the issuance of passports or the rules prescribed
pursuant to such laws…
Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 25
years (if the offense was committed to facilitate an act of
international terrorism (as defined in section 2331 of this
title)), 20 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate a
drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 929(a) of this
title)), 10 years (in the case of the first or second such offense,
if the offense was not committed to facilitate such an act of
international terrorism or a drug trafficking crime), or 15 years
(in the case of any other offense), or both.
SAE says
When fundamental laws are blatantly ignored by politicians, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), it confirms that the United Staes is dismally becoming a banana republic. Additionally, what kind of perverse hand gesture is this scofflaw making, while giving her oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution? Her costume leads me to believe that perhaps her allegiance lies with a Swahili tribe of some sort. She certainly doesn’t present herself as an assimilated, professional American politician, neither in her dress, reverence, nor in her corrupt actions. Heaven help us.
Peter Anderson says
Looks like a lame attempt at the Vulcan salute
SAE says
You’re right, Peter, I didn’t consider that twisted possibility. However, I seriously doubt that the “honorable” U.S. Representative, Yabba Daba Du, wants us to “live long & prosper”. That stealth goal is only for her shariah-cabal. For “we infidels”, it’s quite the opposite.
PRCS says
Yabba Daba Du
Heh!
SAE says
via GIPHY
Isabellathecrusader says
Um, I can see her neck, okay?!
livingengine says
In response to the question “what would you do about Islamic terrorism?”” Ilhan Omar replies that “the white man” is the real problem.
https://youtu.be/0UmmvROd4J8?t=5m52s
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, livingengine. No surprise that she will not condemn Jihad terrorism.
No Muzzies Here says
Looks like Minnesota wants to be the first state to go Muslim. They have their eyes on all 50 and are willing to win them one at a time.
gravenimage says
Minnesota: Establishment media blacks out evidence of Muslim Congressional candidate’s perjury
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Grimly, this should not surprise.
Larry says
The House of representatives should refuse to seat this criminal. That is their right.
StellaSaidSo says
Why make an exception in this case? Consider the number of criminals who currently sit there, or who have done so in the past. The only difference in this case is that it is bindingly obvious who owns her.
Far says
The Minnesotans did not sacrifice themselves at Gettysburg for this. Most moving story in a battlefield of extraordinary moving stories.