New York Post: Ilhan Omar’s pathetic bid to play victim after she downplayed 9/11
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Democrats, Twitter and the national news media offered plenty of outrage Thursday over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s description of 9/11 as a day when “some people did something.” But they directed it entirely at The Post’s front page for exposing and highlighting Omar’s cavalier words.
About the remark itself: total silence, with a few terse “no comments” from Democrats.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Omar, echoed by her allies, played the victim, accusing us of “incitement.” Others claimed we took her remark “out of context.”
Here’s the relevant passage of her 20-minute speech to the Council of American-Islamic Relations: “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”