http://www.dailywire.com/news/44457/ilhan-omar-says-her-obama-quote-was-taken-out-ashe-schow
By Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
March 9, 2019
On Friday, Politico Magazine quoted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as suggesting President Barack Obama was a murderer for the "droning of countries around the world" and that just because someone is more "polished" than President Donald Trump doesn't excuse their bad policies.
After the article published, Omar claimed her quote was taken out of context. So, she uploaded audio of the interview. The full context proved Politico's Tim Alberta quoted her accurately.
Alberta wrote the following paragraph regarding his conversation with Omar regarding Obama:
As she saw it, the party ostensibly committed to progressive values had become complicit in perpetuating the status quo. Omar says the "hope and change" offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the "caging of kids" at the U.S.-Mexico border and the "droning of countries around the world" on Obama's watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.
Alberta then quotes Omar directly:
"We can't be only upset with Trump. ... His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was," Omar says. "And that's not what we should be looking for anymore. We don't want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile."
Omar pushed back against Alberta's reporting, sharing her dismay on Twitter.
"Exhibit A of how reporters distort words. I'm an Obama fan! I was saying how [President] Trump is different from Obama, and why we should focus on policy not politics," Omar said in a now-deleted tweet.
She also posted audio of her interview, which completely backed up Alberta's reporting. ...
This odious, bigoted, terrorist-loving, simpleminded, hateful cow is so stupid that she believes she can say whatever comes to that fevered cranium of hers and then imperiously dismiss any criticism of her noxious words with "I didn't say that ... go away, peons ... don't bother me with facts."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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