Desperately Defending Timmy

Minnesota’s welfare fraud scandals dominate the national news, and calls are rising for Governor Tim Walz to resign. The Minnesota Star Tribune, a longtime DFL mouthpiece that is now run by a former Walz cabinet member, is doing its best to fend off criticism of the Walz regime. Toward that end, its “reporters” are desperately looking for a way to discredit the Nick Shirley video of Somali day care centers that has been seen by more than 100 million people.

Deena Winter, a Star Tribune reporter, evidently was assigned that task. In the Shirley video, he has a colleague who is identified only as “David.” Winter apparently thought this could be the weak link. So she set out to dox David:

Winter thought she had a good idea who David is, but she was wrong. She thought that he might be David Zimmer, American Experiment’s policy fellow specializing in public safety. I have no idea why, since David Zimmer bears zero resemblance to the guy in the video. Still, Winter DMed American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn on Twitter and texted American Experiment’s Communications Director Bill Walsh to try to confirm her theory that “David” on the video is David Zimmer. They both told her that her identification was wrong, and Zimmer had nothing to do with it, as you can plainly see if you look at his picture on our web site. But looking up a photo on a web site is too much to expect from a liberal “reporter.”