The media keeps lying to protect Omar

The first thing you’ll notice is that one says “the House” voted to deny Taylor Greene a committee spot, but the other says “House Republicans” booted Omar (and it was the same over at NPR, PBS, Yahoo!, etc.). Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has the power to unilaterally eject Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the intelligence committee, but the entire House was needed to remove Omar. Obviously both votes were largely along partisan lines, as almost all votes are these days. It’s a newsworthy fact. Yet AP editors simply couldn’t leave that aspect of the story out of the headline for only one of these incidents, even though Democrats were creating the partisan precedent.

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More misleading, however, is the claim that Taylor Greene was expelled for “spreading violent, racist rhetoric,” but Omar was targeted for the innocuous offense of being “critical of Israel.” This is just an endlessly repeated lie. Numerous politicians are “critical of Israel.” Omar doesn’t believe the Jewish people deserve a state, no matter what policies Israel engages in short of packing up. She is critical of the existence of this one nation. That’s a pretty important distinction.

But that’s not even the problem here. Omar, when already a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, compared the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. After she was elected to Congress, Omar diminished the 9/11 attacks—“some people did something”— to exaggerate the presence of “Islamophobia” in this country (a comment that was worse, not better, in context). When Omar says House members are expected to pay “allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country” or that supporters of Israel are in it for “Benjamins,” she is not “being critical” of any policy, she is spreading ugly “tropes.”

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And Democrats are fine with it.

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