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Salem Radio Network host Scott Jennings caused a CNN panel to melt down on Tuesday after he took a jab at Democratic Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for wearing a “Handmaid’s Tale” outfit while pandering to Somalis. Flanagan praised the Somali community in her state in a video posted on Thursday by Somali TV of Minnesota, during which she wore a hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women, during her visit to a Minneapolis-area market. Jennings described the “catering” to the Somali community as “a little weird,” prompting Jamal Simmons, a one-time aide to former Vice President Kamala...

On Saturday, Apostle Wayne T. Jackson of Great Faith Ministries, a black church in Detroit, wrapped Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a Jewish tallit, or prayer shawl, brought straight from the Holy Land of Israel for the purpose. If there were ever an image that could confound the false caricature of Trump as a neo-KKK antisemitic demagogue, that would be it. Which is precisely why Trump’s die-hard detractors are seething. The Times of Israel, covering the reaction on social media presented “both sides” of the issue: “…[W]hile some mocked the image of a Protestant presidential candidate receiving a Jewish...