Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar checks so many boxes on the wokeness list: Black, female, Muslim refugee from Africa. It’s a born-on-third-base situation. Liberal journalists would consider her President Donald Trump’s worst nightmare. That’s why they celebrated her victorious first campaign for Congress in 2018.
So if Omar messes up – an 11 on a scale of one to ten – the media won’t care. This week, the liberal congresswoman was in the news for reading World War II as “World War Eleven.” It was not a major blunder, as the press chose to cover it up rather than cover up the mistake. As they have done throughout her career.
On November 7, 2018, CBS correspondent Jim Axelrod simply praised Omar for becoming “the very first Somali-American elected to Congress” at the age of 36. Born in Somalia, she and her family fled the violence of the civil war at the age of 8. After years in a refugee camp in Kenya, she emigrated to the US at the age of 11, where she learned English in three months.”
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On NBC, congressional correspondent Kasie Hunt rolled Omar in a report touting gains for Democratic women.
“The latest congress with more than a hundred women, a new record. Among them the first Muslim women, Rashida Tlaib from Michigan and Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference in which she blamed President Donald Trump for death threats and attacks against her. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
The objectives of ‘Diversity, equality and inclusivity’ translate into coddling, polishing and defusing the media. But the broadcast networks have a partisan tendency to celebrate Democratic firsts and ignore similar Republican firsts as they did in 2018, praising Omar and passing over California Republican Young Kim, who became one of the first Korean American women elected to Congress.
They didn’t focus on Omar’s anti-Semitism. In a November 2012 tweet, Omar proclaimed: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah wake up the people and help them see Israel’s evil deeds.”
Within a month of her election, Omar inspired a bipartisan resolution against anti-Semitism when she suggested that money from a Jewish PAC was pushing American politicians to defend Israel. She wrote, “It’s all about Benjamin’s baby.” Because most Democrats were shocked, the networks briefly covered it.
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But overall, Omar is seen less as the perpetrator and more as the offended. The latest wave of positive news came last December when President Donald Trump called Omar “nonsense” after massive fraud by Somali-Americans was exposed in Minnesota. One of the fraudsters who pleaded guilty last year was Guhaad Hashi Said, who worked as a staffer on Omar’s first two congressional campaigns.
On the December 7, 2025, episode “Face the Nation,” CBS host Margaret Brennan tossed Omar a softball in which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “claimed that people associated with you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to depose Minnesota’s state welfare system.” Would you like to respond to that? Do you know what he’s referring to?’
Omar replied, “No way, and I don’t think the secretary himself understands what he’s talking about.”
Then, in January, at a town hall meeting, a strange man squirted a plastic syringe of liquid (apparently white wine vinegar) at Omar as she proposed abolishing ICE, and everyone reported the news of this “attack.” No one should be spraying politicians, but some politicians are cherished far more than others.
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ABC pointed its finger at right-wingers. Congressional reporter Jay O’Brien pointed out, “Omar has often been the target of conservative ire. President Trump has called her trash and mocked her Somali heritage.”
Trump told his ABC colleague Rachel Scott “that she probably got herself sprayed, knowing her.”
The same people who expressed concern about Omar being injected with an “unknown substance” were amused in 2008 when an Iraqi threw a shoe at President George W. Bush’s head during a press conference.
“An instant pop culture classic,” says ABC “Nightline” host Terry Moran.
But overall, Omar is seen less as the perpetrator and more as the offended.
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The networks ignored that. It wasn’t a Dan Quayle moment when the vice president read a card to a spelling bee that potato was spelled “potato.”
These are minor blunders, but in Quayle’s case it was fodder for liberal comedians for years. He was portrayed as a stupid person. Newsweek rushed to “fact-check” a real video, claiming it was “shared online without context” because Omar corrected himself.
None of the networks were interested in the ongoing mess over her financial statements to Congress. Omar’s filing valued her husband Tim Mynett’s winery, eSt Cru Wines, at about $1 million to $5 million. Mynett’s venture capital management firm, Rose Lake Capital, was valued between $5 million and $25 million. But in proclaiming that Omar’s “net worth has skyrocketed,” a spokesperson for her called it a “right-wing smear campaign.”
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On April 4, Mynett’s winery was abruptly closed as House Republicans investigated their finances. Omar now claims that the value of her and her husband’s assets is between $18,004 and $95,000 and not, as originally reported, between $6 million and $30 million.
This whole revisionist history has been fueled by Republicans and conservative media. The same broadcast networks that covered New York Republican Rep. George Santos for hours until he was expelled from Congress are refusing to live up to their righteous boast that they are “holding the government accountable.”
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