Uh Oh! Tampon Tim Now in NY Times Doghouse

But in 2020, to Beat Trump, The Times Green Lit the Corruption of 'Little Mogadishu'

When he saw the New York Times chastising him, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had every reason to feel betrayed. In 2020, he and the Times were allies. Together, they helped protect from scrutiny the most flagrant vote fraud scheme ever caught on video. Hard to blame the Somalis for thinking fraud had consequences if you played on Team Blue.

“The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness,” reported the newly virtuous Times in a recent article. “Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Five years ago, however, the Times squandered the opportunity to excise this cancer and allowed it to metastasize. In 2020, the Times and its allies in the media, academia, and “fact checking” industry had an election to win. Fearing a Trump second term, Team Blue abandoned whatever principles they might have had and called the abandonment “saving democracy.”

Then still with Project Veritas, James O’Keefe did an excellent job of showing how the many gears of this machine meshed. In late September 2020, Project Veritas went public with its research into industrial strength vote harvesting in Minneapolis’s large Somali community.

Aiding the Project Veritas team were a few undercover journalists from within that community. They were alarmed by the Democrats’ exploitation of their countrymen. Exploiting immigrant voters, it should be noted, is nothing new. Democrats have held a near monopoly on urban vote fraud since at least the mid-nineteenth century when Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall mastered the art of picking winners.

Tweed’s power lay in his ability to control the Irish vote. “As long as I count the votes,” Tweed was caricatured as saying, “what are you going to do about it?” The New York Times of that era did not sit by idly. It was the Times reporting that led to Tweed’s downfall.

Unchastened, Tweed’s successors in New York and other cities would stake out claims to ethnic groups newly arrived from Europe, from Puerto Rico, from the American South, from China, from Mexico. For the next century, mainstream journalists competed to expose the election fraud they saw.

As Democratic and media interests began to meld, however, journalists stopped seeing fraud. By 2020, they were scolding those who did see it. As the November election approached, the media would ignore the cautions issued from Jimmy Carter’s 2005 election reform commission about absentee ballots and treat each Democratic vote as though Jesus Christ himself had notarized it.

In 2020 in Minneapolis, Project Veritas was serving much the same role as the Times did in 1870. Thanks to undercover video, Veritas captured several financial exchanges between harvesters and voters, but Veritas’s biggest catch was a video shot by a harvester himself. The harvester was Liban Osman, an ally of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the brother of Jamal Osman then running for City Council in an early special election.

The Osman Brothers

One video, posted on Snapchat, showed Osman sorting through a stack of ballots the way he might a roll of bills. “Two in the morning,” he sang as he sorted, “still hustling.” On camera, Osman boasted about a practice that would have made Boss Tweed blush. “Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie,” said Osman. “You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these. My car is full.”

Osman went on to explain a political philosophy as old as Tammany Hall. “Money is everything. Money is the king in this world,” said Osman. “If you got no money, you should not be here, period. You know what I’m saying?” Osman did not expect the video to fall into enemy hands, but it did. A Project Veritas source was following Osman’s Snapchat account and captured his video.

Through a variety of friendly channels, millions of Americans saw the Project Veritas videos. The chicanery they showed was too obvious and too consequential to ignore or defend. So Team Blue enlisted its go-to fixers at the Times. In a September 29 article headlined, “Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say,” reporter Maggie Astor led the attack.

According to Astor, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington concluded that the Veritas videos were “probably” part of a disinformation campaign. To build a major story around the word “probably” would have been unthinkable just a decade earlier, but the Times was all in for Joe Biden.

Once Astor enlisted academia to validate a transparent falsehood, the lesser media, including the local media in Minneapolis, felt free to pile on. Reinforcing the deception was the Team Blue “fact-checking” apparatus. A typical headline, this one from USA Today, read, “Fact check: No proof of alleged voter fraud scheme or connection to Rep. Ilhan Omar.” Apparently, the videos of the Somali harvesters at work did not meet the media’s new evidentiary standards.

Thanks to social media, millions of Americans witnessed not only a flagrant vote fraud scheme but also a coordinated disinformation campaign to bury the fraud. That campaign involved the Democratic Party, the major media, academia, the local media, and their “fact-checking” allies. Without an initial green light from the New York Times, none of this could have happened.

Months later Twitter got in on the game, permanently banning Project Veritas. In his book, American Muckraker, O’Keefe sums up media perfidy by quoting the “final, most essential command” of the “Party” in Orwell’s 1984, namely “to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

In 2020, Team Blue was that “Party.” Playing by Orwellian rules, the team shielded at least half of America from smelling the rot emanating from the once proud state of Minnesota. “Over the last five years,” the Times now tells us, “law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.”

“Last five years,” huh? One wonders what made the Somalis think they could get away with it? As to Liban Osman, in 2021 he was stabbed in the head during an altercation, ran to his car to retrieve his gun, and shot the defenseless man who stabbed him as he lay on the ground after being subdued by onlookers. The county attorney declined to press charges against Osman. Meanwhile Derek Chauvin rots away in prison.

As Minneapolis goes, so goes America?

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