In the Midst of a WashPost Puff Piece on Ilhan Omar, A Disturbing Trend Emerges
By Tim Graham | July 7, 2019 8:49 PM EDT
Two Sundays ago, The Washington Post's front page mourned how two slaughtered Scandinavian women were a "weapon for the far right." On July 7, the Post front page frets for over 3,500 words on "The complicated American story of Ilhan Omar: The congresswoman's refugee narrative was made for the rancor and racial division of the Trump era."
But once again, the exploiters of racial rancor are "conservative blogs" poking around in Omar's weird marital and political history, not the divisive liberal newspapers who side with the "marginalized" over the right-wingers.
You can smell it in the way Greg Jaffe and Souad Mekhennet proclaim Omar's ascent raises "something bigger -- a battle over the American story -- who was entitled to tell it and how it would be told."
Translation: critics aren't "entitled" to tell Omar's story.
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