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Washington Post inadvertently reveals how Rep. Ilhan Omar frequently plays fast and loose with the facts

Jul 8, 2019 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Omar reflects the Post’s worldview, so she gets a free pass as she dissembles and obfuscates the truth. The establishment media doesn’t even pretend to be a fair or objective news source anymore.

“In the Midst of a WashPost Puff Piece on Ilhan Omar, A Disturbing Trend Emerges,” by Tim Graham, NewsBusters, July 7, 2019:

Two Sundays ago, The Washington Post‘s front page mourned how two slaughtered Scandinavian women were a “weapon for the far right.” On July 7, the Post front page frets for over 3,500 words on “The complicated American story of Ilhan Omar: The congresswoman’s refugee narrative was made for the rancor and racial division of the Trump era.”

But once again, the exploiters of racial rancor are “conservative blogs” poking around in Omar’s weird marital and political history, not the divisive liberal newspapers who side with the “marginalized” over the right-wingers.

You can smell it in the way Greg Jaffe and Souad Mekhennet proclaim Omar’s ascent raises “something bigger — a battle over the American story — who was entitled to tell it and how it would be told.”

Translation: critics aren’t “entitled” to tell Omar’s story.

In the midst of hailing her on her terms as “America’s hope and the president’s worst nightmare,” the Post runs through the scandalous history — the “all about the Benjamins” tweet about Israel, the “somebody did something” sneer about 9/11 at a CAIR fundraiser, and her writing a letter urging leniency for nine Somalis convicted of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. (That was “an easy opportunity for her enemies to paint her as un-American.”)

At least the Post duo noted she’s not careful with the facts when she’s running down American racism and injustice:

Five years earlier, Omar told the students, she was working for a Minneapolis city councilman who asked her to report back on problems with the courts. There, she recalled encountering a “sweet, old . . . African American lady” who had been arrested for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her “starving 5-year-old granddaughter.”

After spending the weekend in jail, the woman was led into the courtroom and fined $80 – a penalty she couldn’t pay. “I couldn’t control my emotions,” Omar continued, “because I couldn’t understand how a roomful of educated adults could do something so unjust.”

“Bulls—!” she recalled yelling in the courtroom.

Laughter rippled through the auditorium, then silence.

Omar’s story echoed the plot of Les Miserables. If true, it is also probably embellished. City officials said that police aren’t allowed to arrest people for shoplifting unless there’s a likelihood of violence or further crime. Typically, shoplifters are sentenced to attend a three-hour class.

In an interview, Omar said she may have flubbed some facts. “She might have had a prior [arrest],” Omar said. “I’m not sure. . . . The details might not have all matched, but that’s what I remember.”

Then the Post alllowed [sic] Omar to recall how she was bullied in school — might that also be embellished, considering the last anecdote?

The family spent one year in the Washington suburbs, where Omar told a reporter for the New York Times that she was bullied by middle school students who stuck gum in her scarf, jumped her in the locker room and knocked her down the stairs. “They are doing this to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence,” she said her father told her.

Later, the Post reporters note another fact-mangling episode: “Recently, she told a group of veterans that about 45 percent of military families rely on food stamps. She was trying to make the point that Republicans didn’t care for the troops. The actual number is less than 5 percent, according to Pentagon statistics.”

Maybe the Washington Post “fact checkers” can start counting how many facts Omar mangles, like they do for the president….except the Post wants to be the president’s nightmare….

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  1. somehistory says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 4:23 pm

    She is ugly and evil and a pathological liar. She doesn’t expect to be called on any of her lies.

    There are Black kids a-plenty in the D.C. suburbs and all around D.C. Nearly all kids that go to school are “bullied” at some point by some other kids. One doesn’t have to be Black, foreign, moslim, ugly, overweight, underweight, wear glasses, etc. to have other kids view one as a target. So, if…if,if,if…she got bullied, big deal; she survived it.

    Trying to make people feel sorry for her so they give her a pass for her lies, her bigotry, her “i’m superior” attitude, may work for some, for awhile, but everyone…without exception…reaps what is sown. She will reap and her bushels will be full and overflowing.

    • Wellington says

      Jul 8, 2019 at 4:57 pm

      Seconded, somehistory.

      And true enough respecting what you wrote with the bullying crap. Most everyone was bullied one way or another when they were a kid. I certainly was because I was so skinny and this is why I took up weightlifting and by the time I graduated from high school I could bench press more than most any other male member of my graduating class—but I never complained, never sought victim status; I just did it.

      Self-pity is as natural to a Buttlim as is mendacity as well as contempt for all non-Muslims—per Sura 98:6, “the vilest of creatures” and all that shit. Omar functions here as Exhibit #1. So sick of her as I am of Islam and all apologists for the master faith forerunner of the master race ideology, i.e., Nazism.

      Hope you and yours are doing well in an unwell world. Now, back to the fight with wretched human beings like Omar.

      • mortimer says

        Jul 8, 2019 at 9:20 pm

        Good post from Wellington. We have to awaken people in the West to the dangers you enumerate. How do we awaken them?

        Whenever Muslims commit a heinous atrocity, the Leftards mock: ‘This will help the far right!’

        The Leftards deny that Islam is teaching Muslims to commit atrocities. How do we awaken them?

        • william carr says

          Jul 10, 2019 at 3:12 am

          Omar and her two friends are showing the country what radicals and especially Muslim radicals do when they are elected to high office. The MSM also makes them celebrities which they enjoy much like perorfomers do when they get ‘famous’. I am sure they are making as many enemies as friends,

      • somehistory says

        Jul 8, 2019 at 9:24 pm

        Thank you, Wellington.
        Thank you for sharing some of your life experiences. As has been said, what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. Or like an oyster bothered by a grain of sand, builds a pearl.

        I, too, am sick of her. Guess we’ll just have to build some pearls to counteract. I hope you and your family are well. I’ve been better, but also worse, so not complaining, thank you. Hanging in, doing some painting, appreciating what I have.

        Carry on!

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 8, 2019 at 9:30 pm

        Good posts, Somehistory and Wellington.

    • abad says

      Jul 8, 2019 at 7:30 pm

      Omar should be deported. She is much better off being in Somalia instead of the United States of America.

      More than half the time she does not even act like she is American.

    • Ko says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 1:40 am

      Ilhan Omar is a modern day hero . Do what you may … she is a real hero ….. we know that the establishment fears her . God Bless her and may you haters be forgiven

      • somehistory says

        Jul 9, 2019 at 3:35 pm

        Don’t include me in your prayers to satan. omar is that demon’s daughter and any who stand with her, share their evil.

        • Michael Scott Dreyer says

          Jul 10, 2019 at 6:39 am

          Amen!

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 9, 2019 at 10:14 pm

        How does lauding the horrors of Islam and hating the freedoms of America make her a hero? I doubt very much that Ko will say.

      • juleonly says

        Jul 10, 2019 at 6:25 pm

        KO, you pretend this is racism or because of the way people dress but that it the farthest thing from the truth. The fact is we read the Qur’an and history of Islam and and it is so negatively opposite to what we are and so far from what anything holy would actually look like. What is taught to you and so many little children is not things from any Gd/Allah. They are hurtful, unkind, Supremacist,
        cleverly put together dictatorial WARLORD ideas, and they cause people call ‘others’ enemy (today not even including the past) & to do some very bad things or at least send money/support to people who do some Very bad things. Those bad people you call ‘Hero’. Its so misguided but people have been taught to be that way, yet the motive is actually not Allah at all. We look at every Muslim country and what do we see….RUIN. Because of the basic teachings. If people were not given death or prison for criticising this warlord ideology, it would not even be in existence anymore. It is not racism or islamophobia but that is the only excuse people can think of because the truth is…we do not want this warlord way of life in our country as it destroys freedom. It is as unAmerican as nazigroups, KKKlan, Supremacists of everykind but more destructive to human life.

    • Steve Sarchett says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 10:31 am

      “Taqiyya”: Arabic meaning, lying is permitted to advance Islam or if you feel threated. Or in her case to create a false narrative about muslim persecution &/or to slander others. Wake up America

    • juleonly says

      Jul 10, 2019 at 6:46 pm

      somehistory…most of everything you say is true BUT..I have said this before and will say it again and again because i do not want our dislike of a dangerous warlord theocratic/gov way of like to be mistake for any ‘pergerous bias.. That is what happens when you say things like ‘ugly’ of ‘evil’. Please do not give any of them the EXCUSE to say we are just racist or based on looks. Their problem is in what they are taught to BELIEVE. They say ‘no compulsion’ but decide anything against Allah (as the early jews did in Medina, Mecca 630AD) and get punishment or death is one epitomy of No Choice but they call that ‘choice.’ Just please help teach people without using bis descriptions like ugly because that ruins all the rest of the important message.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 10, 2019 at 9:57 pm

        “Ugly” is not a reference to looks, let alone race, Jule. As for evil, it is hard to know how else to describe the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah.

  2. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 4:28 pm

    Are Coo-Coo birds native to Somalia?
    Just wondering.

    • carolyne says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 12:46 pm

      I don’t know about coo-coo birds but dodos are definitely native to Somalia.

    • Omar Omar says

      Jul 10, 2019 at 4:14 pm

      norrow mind people miss Omar is hero hate or love it

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 10, 2019 at 10:01 pm

        What makes her a hero–spreading the foul creed of Islam on civilized Americans?

  3. Angemon says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    “except the Post wants to be the president’s nightmare….”

    They need to get in line…

  4. tiredoldlady says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 5:28 pm

    Uuuummmm… I’m 51… In Idaho across the border from Washington… Of course I don’t wear a scarf… But, I had all that happen to me as well… I was bullied… Hair to my knees and cutting gum out of it… Locked in a locker by the shop room at least once a month… Called names, picked on… Difference??? I grew up… I don’t blame anyone for that 3 years of bullying… It taught me to different than that group of bullies… I wouldn’t do to others what I went through… Made me a better person… I’m not defending it… But, it didn’t kill me… I found positive in it… Omar turned her experience into hate for her bullies… Hate for AMERICAN’s and AMERICA!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 10:16 pm

      I would take Omar’s tails of being bullied for being Muslim with a large grain of salt.

  5. Lydia Church says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    Facts? Eh, facts… shmacts! Who cares about facts?!
    What are the facts… anyway?!
    Not the news media and not the public anymore obviously!

    • Mark Rogers says

      Jul 8, 2019 at 5:55 pm

      This is news!!!????

  6. Tim Whiteside says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 5:36 pm

    That this disgraceful woman is in congress is a testament to the willingness of the US to test its strength to withstand all voices ..even those of evil, to the utmost rigour…she will.ultimately fail in her destructive quest because the truth always wins in the end

  7. gravenimage says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 7:08 pm

    Washington Post inadvertently reveals how Rep. Ilhan Omar frequently plays fast and loose with the facts
    ……………………

    This is not accidental. All of her “mistakes” are intended to falsely paint the US as a cruel and vicious place. Just sickening.

    • abad says

      Jul 8, 2019 at 7:32 pm

      If the US is such a cruel and vicious place then why on God’s green earth did she move here to begin with?

      The vast majority of Americans would rather send her back to Somalia, where she belongs.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 10, 2019 at 10:02 pm

        Good question.

  8. mortimer says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    DOUBLE STANDARDS for Muslims … the precious pets of the globalists.

    WAPO sez: “What? Ilhan Omar lied AGAIN??? Ho, ho. Where is that free pass we always give her? I’m finding it harder to locate it every single time we need it … we need only need it when she opens her mouth.”

    Obviously, WAPO journalists see that she lies like a rug, but they have their orders. Just obeying orders, WAPO, just obeying orders.

  9. James says

    Jul 8, 2019 at 9:54 pm

    She reminds me of some of the writers who become celebrities for a fake memoir or fictional reportage in the media and are later exposed. Originally people want to believe highly improbable stories, but later questions are raised about them. Ann Coulter describes some of these cases in at least one of her books. A woman who grew up in an expensive suburb wrote about growing up in a ghetto where she was exposed to drugs and was the object of discrimination. There are a number of fake Holocaust memoirs by people who were not Jewish and not vicitims of the Nazis, yet initially many people wanted to believe. Their style of writing and the stories they tell are sometimes more dramatic than the actual stories of real Holocaust victims. . Or there was another woman journalist who wrote about drug abuse and children for the WaPo, and she was quite successful until the Post finally became suspicious. They could not find the family she wrote about, and she lacked some of the qualifications she claimed to have, like speaking French. The willingness to believe and take serious Omar has something to do with the desire to find a symbolic figure of oppression who fights back. Her true believers want a person who justifies leftist mass migration policies for people from the Muslim world and the Third World generally and the idea that they are fighters against injustice. They are touted as more virtuous and more deserving than Americans themselves. But because of her lack of credibility and the arrogance toward America and Americans, she provides ammunition for critics as well. She has a double strategy, claiming victimhood for herself while denying it to the victims of Islamism, such as the 9/11 victims. She takes advantage of her intersectionality, black, female, Muslim, immigrant. A group of identities that seem for the Left to validate her victimhood message and justifies her virtue signalling.

  10. carolyne says

    Jul 9, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    Maybe she hates the US because we don’t wear bags on our heads, women don’t have to stay home and we do not sexually mutilate little girls. All of which are part of Somali culture. If her preferred way of living is superior, why is she here?

    • Marcus Smith says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 5:46 pm

      For the same reason that she willingly accepts her capitalism generated pay check but screams how great socialism is.

    • Jaja says

      Jul 10, 2019 at 12:52 am

      May be ur very stupid of say something like that she is a congresswoman serving america how can she hate america do u know who hate’s america Aipac and the loby if u don’t know u shit

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 10, 2019 at 10:04 pm

        She hates everything that America stands for. Being elected does not automatically make someone a patriot.

        As for the rest, this is a hatred of Jews and our ally Israel–which is pretty much what one would expect from a fan of Ilhan Omar.

  11. Marcus Smith says

    Jul 9, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    Hi, I’m sure that someone on here will eviscerate me for saying this, Ilhan Omar is a domestic terrorist. The weapons that she uses are not bombs, guns or bullets, her weapons are ” words of discourse”. The sad thing is two fold, there are actually people that believe her and she now has an international platform to use as she wishes. I have made the statement before and was called every vile name one can think of. To prove my point look at the anti American things she espouses constantly, and when brought to task about it she gives a non- apology, apology. Look at the anti- Semitic things said by her. There is her being a keynote speaker at a CAIR conference. CAIR has been labeled as a terrorist group by another Muslim country. CAIR was labeled as an unindicted co- conspirator in helping fund Hamas in America. The other speakers at the same conference deny that Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood are terrorist organizations. Take a look at the fact she asked for leniency in sentencing of several Muslim men caught trying to join ISIS. Her actions alone show that she is a terrorist sympathizer. People wonder how she was elected in the first place, first she is from Minneapolis which has the largest Somali population in the country. Second unknown to alot of people, after winning her primary she recieved backing from the Justice Democrats, the same group that backed AOC, Ayanna Pressley and Rashid Talib. This same group is now backing 16 others to beat out incumbents in up coming elections. The really scary part is with the Democrats going as far left as they are, removing Omar and others like her will be almost impossible. Unfortunately there are no term limits for Congress or Senate. To complicate matters more don’t forget that she represents this country on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Budget Committee. The other scary part about this is that in the near future someone like her will be President. She can’t be because she wasnt born in this country, however AOC was. Just food for thought.

    • somehistory says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 10:07 pm

      I do not see anything in your comment that is incorrect. omar is in the business of spreading islam…however she can…and islam is synonymous with terror.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 9, 2019 at 10:18 pm

      You are quite right–Omar is a stealth Jihadist.

  12. Madeleine Dunn says

    Jul 9, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    the msm and leftist politicians are imbuing her with demonic power

  13. somehistory says

    Jul 9, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    https://thewashingtonstandard.com/top-ranking-member-of-house-foreign-affairs-committee-omar-has-to-go-from-committee/
    “But as for me, I think Omar has to go,” he said, eliciting wild applause and a standing ovation from the audience.

  14. Edwin Pedroza says

    Jul 10, 2019 at 7:44 am

    Shut the crack up omar you are the biggest liar.

  15. Prasad says

    Jul 10, 2019 at 12:14 pm

    Too much attention towards unwanted persons to get media publicity.

  16. Omar Omar says

    Jul 10, 2019 at 4:19 pm

    good job ilhan keep up the hardwork

    • Edward Noor says

      Jul 10, 2019 at 7:26 pm

      If she is in her country they will shut her mouth, and shove her in Jail. She should shut it in the US

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 10, 2019 at 10:07 pm

      Which of Ilhan Omar’s lies does Omar Omar consider to be a “good job”? All of them?

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