When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Ilhan Omar doesn’t have a hammer, but she does have a problem in that she tries t nail everything down as racism. According to her, Tucker Carlson makes too much money, which is a racist attack against her. She also feels racially attacked because the Justice Department dropped its fraudulent case against Micheal Flynn. In Omar’s case it’s: when all you have self-pity everything looks like a racist attack.
This starts out yesterday when news broke that the Justice Department was dropping its case against Michael Flynn, mostly on account that the FBI under Obama and James Comey, set him up. Because Flynn is white *gasp!* Omar says its stone cold racism, yo.
White privilege at work. https://t.co/KfqzcvwXiV
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 7, 2020
Millions of people—mostly black and Latino men—spend years in jail trying to prove their innocence. Some die in jail.
Michael Flynn was exonerated for crimes *he admitted to* with the blink of an eye.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 7, 2020
Well, there was compelling evidence that the FBI lied and tried to set up Micheal Flynn, so there’s that. Also, charges weren’t dropped in the “blink of an eye” as this thing has dragged on for years and ruined Flynn financially. Finally, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying because prosecutors threatened to go after his son if he didn’t and ultimately the case was dropped because the “lying” charge was determined to be immaterial to the investigation against him.
But hey, Flynn is white.
Tucker Carlson thought Omar’s tweets were ridiculous and he ripped her apart on his show last night:
Tucker Carlson: Rep. Ilhan Omar “passionately hates the country,” “can a single human being actually be as loathsome as Ilhan Omar is? It’s hard to believe. She’s like a parody of repulsiveness” pic.twitter.com/yE2lxEWdxj
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) May 8, 2020
Which prompted leftist Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell to scream “racism!”
Tucker Carlson would never speak this way about a white man. Doesn’t matter what he does, thinks, or says – Tucker Carlson’s white supremacism is so deeply ingrained that he hates people of color, especially women, with more zeal than anything else https://t.co/xvEWjV54yI
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) May 8, 2020
Ilhan Omar not only agreed that it was racist for Carlson to call her stupid for saying Flynn’s exoneration was racist but also that Tucker Carlson making too much money is direct threat to her life:
Tucker gets paid $6 million a year to stare into a camera and incite his followers to threaten the life of a sitting Member of Congress.
There is a reason that every time Tucker does a segment on me death threats go up.
Corporate America, this is what your ads are bankrolling. https://t.co/cqoLzq9Cgd
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 8, 2020
To answer the question of how much racism Ilhan Omar can find in something that doesn’t have anything to do with her: a lot.
Also, did you notice how she didn’t dispute anything Tucker Carlson actually said about her? She didn’t disagree that she hates America. She didn’t deny that she married her own brother. She didn’t counter claims that she’s a virtue-signally race-hustler and in fact proved she is by claiming Carlson’s racism is making people want to kill her.
