{"id":67251,"date":"2018-06-26T06:56:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67251"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:26:58","slug":"this-is-todays-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67251","title":{"rendered":"This Is Today&#8217;s DFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ilhan Omar &#8211; DFL endorsed candidate for Congress in the 5th CD &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/ilhan-omar-why-i-hate-israel.php?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=sw&amp;utm_campaign=sw\">is a raving anti-semite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State representative Ilhan Omar has yet to complete her first term in the Minnesota legislature, where she has accomplished approximately nothing of substance, though she has now secured the DFL endorsement to succeed Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison in Congress. In the brief Weekly Standard article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/scott-w-johnson\/the-anti-israel-seat\">\u201cThe anti-Israel seat,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0I conclude with observations related to Omar\u2019s frank hatred of Israel. She doesn\u2019t sugarcoat it. She calls Israel an \u201capartheid regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is a defamatory falsehood with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/is-zionism-racism\">a shabby provenance<\/a>. In Omar\u2019s case, it is something more than an impulsive comment in a recent tweet. It represents her considered judgment. One can see it at work in her remarks on the floor of the Minnesota House in opposition to a bill (HF 400) opposing the boycott of Israel promoted by so-called BDS groups harking back to the \u201cZionism is racism\u201d lie of the 1970\u2019s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s fascinating how local media treats Omar&#8217;s anti-semitiem; exactly the same way as they treated her dubious family history.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense; their editors and producers know they&#8217;ll never get another invite to the Oceannarie if they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilhan Omar &#8211; DFL endorsed candidate for Congress in the 5th CD &#8211; is a raving anti-semite. State representative Ilhan Omar has yet to complete her first term in the Minnesota legislature, where she has accomplished approximately nothing of substance, though she has now secured the DFL endorsement to succeed Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Keith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,255],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-67251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-the-racket","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67252,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251\/revisions\/67252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}