Posted on 12/08/2025 10:49:34 AM PST by OttawaFreeper
Anyone expecting tough questions from CBS’s Margaret Brennan to U.S. Representative Ilham Omar was sorely disappointed at the end of this week’s Face the Nation. Brennan instead provided a tour-de-force in media coddling, as Omar was the beneficiary of a kid-gloves interview that cast her as the victim of unfortunate events beyond her control.
This coddling of Omar is, as was noted by our own Tim Graham, part of a broader pattern seeking both to shield Omar from her connections to the Somali welfare scam currently roiling the state of Minnesota and to Trumpwash the scandal by focusing on President Donald Trump’s reference to Omar as “garbage” during a recent Cabinet meeting. As a reminder: Trumpwashing is that media tactic that suppresses any and all coverage of a Democrat scandal until President Trump reacts to it, then shifts coverage to turn Trump’s reaction into the scandal, as opposed to the scandal itself.
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Don't make me laugh.
Are they now dating? The love is very apparent and completely biased.
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The Scam and the Scum. It’s time for OMAR’s bony butt to be deported. Send her back with her own kind. She’s not an American and NEVER WILL BE. The Mammy of All Minnesota Porch Pirates.
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