It must be good to be a black, Muslim woman, the first such to get elected to Congress and, not incidentally, a Democrat and an avowed hater of the United States and of Israel. If you can check all those boxes, then you can commit the most overt and obvious frauds and scams, and the mainstream media will act in lockstep to cover up, suppress and minimize your wrongdoing.
But at some point the brazenness can become too much even for the New York Times. That appears to have happened in the past couple of days in the case of Ilhan Omar, Congresswoman from Minnesota.
Two plus weeks ago, on October 12, federal agents executed a search warrant on Omar’s house in Washington, D.C. The authorities have been rather tight-lipped about the nature of the underlying investigation, but numerous news outlets, both liberal and conservative, have had pieces citing multiple sources (generally anonymous) who indicate that the investigation relates in some way to immigration and/or marriage fraud committed by Omar.
One of those outlets is the New York Times. On October 29, the Times published online a long piece by a guy named Ernesto Londoño headlined “Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage.” Londoño’s piece does not cover any significant new ground in what we know about Ms. Omar’s fraudulent marriage to her brother, or any of her other frauds. Mostly, it is significant because it breaks the taboo among the left-wing media on discussing the subject, and signals to the rest of the sheep in that farmyard that they are now allowed to mention this topic. Even so, the story looks to be of limited circulation, appearing so far only online for some reason that I do not know. I have gone through the entire print editions of the Times for both yesterday (October 29) and today (October 30), and it’s not there. Maybe they’re saving it for tomorrow (Halloween), or perhaps for after the election.
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