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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ilhan-omar-marry-brother/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ilhan-omar-marry-brother/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p ibm="IBM" plex="Plex" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, when it looked like Ilhan Omar stood a good chance of becoming the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota state House of Representatives, rumors swirled that she had married her brother in an illegal effort to facilitate his obtaining U.S. citizenship status.</font></p><p ibm="IBM" plex="Plex" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Omar did win a seat in Minnesota’s House of Representatives, and two years later she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Like her peer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), Omar is young, outspoken, and champions progressive politics. And also <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-hot-dog-on-stick/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">like</a> <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-hot-dog-on-stick/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Ocasio</a>–<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/green-new-deal-recycle-urine/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Cortez</a>, Omar has been a frequent subject of <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ilhan-omar-brother-arrested/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">unfounded</a> <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ilhan-omar-white-men/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">rumors</a> (particularly ones that have <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ilhan-omar-isis/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">targeted</a> her family and religious background).</font></p><p ibm="IBM" plex="Plex" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The rumor about Omar’s brother that surfaced during her 2016 Minnesota campaign <a href="https://archive.fo/zKZLD" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">followed</a> her as she assumed her new leadership role representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2019:</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 2.75rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The origin of the rumor captured in the above tweet is spotty. The claim first appeared in 2016 as an anonymous, since-deleted post on SomaliSpot, an online discussion forum geared toward the Somali community.<b> Despite being unverified, the post was picked up by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190215214933/https://www.powerlineblog.com/about-us" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">Powerline</a>, a blog that “features commentary on the news from a conservative perspective,” who reported in a 12 August 2016 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181209185125/https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/08/ilhan-omar-her-back-pages.php" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">post</a> that:</b></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2.75rem -2.75rem 0px; position: relative; border-width: 0px; padding: 2.75rem; background: rgba(251, 212, 64, 0.2);"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information suggesting Omar’s involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. Hirsi is the father of Omar’s three children. Omar is depicted with Hirsi and their children on Omar’s campaign website here.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The post further notes that Omar married her <b>brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009,</b> implying that the latter marriage assisted his entry into the United States. Her brother was a British citizen. “As soon as Ilhan Omar married him,” the post continues, “he started university at her [a]lma mater North Dakota State University where he graduated in 2012. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Minneapolis where he was living in a public housing complex and was later evicted. He then returned to the United Kingdom where he now lives.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 2.75rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In response to the rumor, Omar issued a <a href="https://kstp.com/kstpImages/repository/cs/files/Ilhan%20Omar%20Statement.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">statement</a> in 2016 describing the issue as one based on “a difficult part of my personal history that I did not consider relevant in the context of a political campaign,” and she labeled accusations that her former husband was also her brother “absurd and offensive.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Omar asserted that she applied for a marriage license with her current spouse, Ahmed Hirsi, when she was 19 years old in 2002, but the couple never completed the application process for a civil marriage. Instead, Omar maintained, she and Hirsi were married in their Muslim “faith tradition.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In 2008 Omar and Hirsi reached an “impasse” in their relationship and separated</b> (again under Muslim <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2016/08/ilhan-omar-marriage-and-somali-culture-faq/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; position: relative; box-shadow: rgb(251, 212, 64) 0px -2px 0px inset;">custom</a>). In 2009, Omar engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen, but they separated in 2011 (without obtaining a legal divorce), and Elmi returned to England.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2017, Omar formally petitioned for divorce from Elmi, whose last known location — according to Omar’s statement as recorded in Minnesota court records — was in London as of 2011. Also in 2017, Omar reconciled with Hirsi, and they officially wed in 2018. (Omar and Hirsi have three children together, two born during their initial relationship, and a third born in 2012).</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>We found no public records or credible sources contradicting Omar’s account of her past, nor any substantive evidence corroborating claims that Elmi is her brother or that their marriage was otherwise fraudulent.</b> In addition, some of the claims offered in support of the rumor don’t seem to add up.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>One of the important factors in the rise of white nationalism is the way it has been normalized within the national media</b> — treated at best as an afterthought, a purely fringe phenomenon that we really needn’t worry our heads about, with coverage often accompanied by <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/1/1720249/-Nazi-sympathizer-gets-family-fired-losing-home-after-profile-in-the-New-York-Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">warm fuzzy features</a> remarking on how normal these neo-Nazi types can seem in real life.</font></div><div class="story-intro story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="p1_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People both inside and outside the media business often wind up scratching their heads in wonder that this sort of thing can happen even in an age when there is ample information on <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/29/1846144/-Why-the-rise-of-white-nationalism-should-be-a-major-issue-for-the-2020-presidential-field" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the toxicity that white nationalism represents</a>. But the more we learn about the alt-right and its tentacles, the clearer it’s become that there are people situated within the media mainstream who in reality are silently sympathetic to these causes, and they are influencing the decisions over what gets covered and how.</font></p><div class="p2_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A recent </span><a title="" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/katie-mchugh" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">BuzzFeed piece by Rosie Gray</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> does an excellent job of e<b>xposing how white nationalism has managed to insinuate itself inside the Beltway media ecosystem,</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">mainly through a coterie of ostensibly mainstream conservatives who, it seems, are extraordinarily tolerant of neo-Nazism</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. It recounts the saga o</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">f Katie McHugh, an alt-right provocateur who moved in the right-wing Washington circles of Breitbart, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Daily Caller</em>, GotNews, and WorldNetDaily, and who now deeply regrets the error of her ways.</span></font></p><div class="p3_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not entirely clear from the piece that McHugh has come to terms with the deeper issues around the work she did in helping propagate a vicious brand of white nationalism surreptitiously, under the guise of “conservatism.” It’s certainly not clear that she has yet reckoned with the real damage she did and her obligation now to do what she can to repair it, but time will tell on that front.</font></p><div class="p4_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On the other hand, she clearly is regretful for her past actions, which is where everyone needs to start on the road to recovery from the grip of hateful ideologies. And she deserves credit for taking that biggest of all steps.</b></font></p><div class="p5_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She also has started out by performing what is probably a huge public service in exposing much of the inner workings of the Beltway media white nationalist coterie. Editors and other reporters who operate with supposedly mainstream credentials are shown to be co-players in the white nationalist propaganda they all engaged in, though they all deny doing so.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Appropriately enough, the nexus of this coterie is none other than <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/15/1850353/-Tucker-Carlson-leads-a-whitewash-parade-for-white-nationalism-Calling-it-out-stirs-up-hate-he-says" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tucker Carlson</a>, both his Daily Caller news operation, of which he is co-founder but no longer publisher, as well as his daily Fox News program. As McHugh describes it, the vast majority of the surreptitious white nationalist organizing occurred within the ranks of Daily Caller staffers, heavily flanked by a full complement of Breitbart writers.</font></p><div class="p7_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="story-intro-divider" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="story-body story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the more prominent white nationalist movement figures—such as Kevin DeAnna, McHugh’s former boyfriend, who has long been on the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/kevin-deanna" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">radar of the Southern Poverty Law Center</a> for his youthful organization of campus white nationalists in the 2000s—apparently operated more on the periphery, while their close friends occupied media positions inside the Beltway.</font></p><div class="p8_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>McHugh, you may recall, was <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/5/1669094/-Breitbart-fires-one-of-their-racists-and-now-she-s-asking-for-handouts-that-she-s-railed-against" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">fired from Breitbart</a> for an overtly racist tweet about Muslims (“There would be no terror attacks in the UK if Muslims didn’t live there”)</b>. Of course, it was not actually the most racist thing she had ever tweeted out, but her timing was indiscreet, and she got caught in a media crossfire and was shown the door after having been a protégé of Steve Bannon’s, all while attending truly weird <b>neopagan</b> events:</font></p><div class="p9_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; border: none !important;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McHugh sometimes accompanied DeAnna on weekend trips down to the Wolves’ headquarters for what they called a “moot” — a ceremony in which the assembled Wolves would smear ash on their bodies around a fire and give what McHugh described as “dramatic speeches” about self-sufficiency and relying on the other group members. They would then sit around the fire and drink beers.</font></p><div class="p10_15" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Wolves placed a heavy emphasis on masculinity.</b> The women would prepare food for the gatherings earlier in the day before the moot commenced, according to McHugh. The Wolves were into a “Centurion Method” of physical fitness; a video still on YouTube shows DeAnna and Paul Waggener, one of the founders of the group who used the pseudonym “Grimnir,” taking turns lifting up the trunk of a car filled with cement blocks, scrambling around on a bunch of debris, and squatting while holding logs.</font></p><div class="p11_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What we also learn is that there is a reason the same fellows grunting around campfires to establish their masculinity are eager viewers of Tucker Carlson: his news operation has provided a home for a number of them. <b>Indeed, <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/06/many-daily-caller-writers-expressed-white-supremacist-views/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Snopes.com last year</a> explored the striking extent to which Daily Caller writers have expressed white-nationalist views. Now it’s also clear why that is.</b></font></p><div class="p12_15" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></div></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is a reason that </span><a title="" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/ex-white-nationalist-says-they-get-tips-from-tucker-carlson.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">white nationalists avidly watch</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Carlson’s nightly Fox program in hopes of gleaning talking points and ideas</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. <a title="" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tucker-carlson-fox-news-daily-stormers-favorite-pundit" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">There is a reason</a> the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer’s favorite pundit is Carlson </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Andrew Anglin calls him “literally our greatest ally”). There is a reason the chat boards and other white nationalist haunts </span><a title="" href="https://www.revealnews.org/blog/the-hate-report-what-white-nationalists-think-about-tucker-carlson/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">positively hum with chatter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> over Carlson’s TV broadcasts (“Tucker is a national treasure and will be the catalyst for real social change”; “At best, he’s a gateway for us and they know it”).</span></font></p><div class="p13_15" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, Carlson is not alone in the Beltway media in promoting white nationalist talking points. His cohort at Fox Business, Lou Dobbs—one of <a title="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hardline-views-made-lou-dobbs-a-fox-powerhouse-now-hes-shaping-trumps-border-policy/2019/04/26/cb8ebd6c-5fa4-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html?utm_term=.a8da1a082f02" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Donald Trump’s favorite pundits</a>—<a title="" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/people/lou-dobbs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">mouths an endless stream</a> of white nationalist and authoritarian talking points as well.</font></p><div class="p14_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, it’s obvious that Carlson’s sphere extends well beyond just the frame of the Fox network, and into a much darker world altogether. Nor is he alone.</font></p></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wfb</font></div><div><div class="rating-card post-card card" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: flex; flex-direction: column; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-clip: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 30px;" ibm="IBM" plex="Plex" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="rating card-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; padding: 30px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; border-top: 1px solid rgb(244, 244, 244);"><div class="whats-true details" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px;"><h3 class="post-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What's True</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A raw analysis of unadjusted statistics for fiscal year 2016 shows that on average Senator Warren's male staffers earned more than her female staffers.</font></p></div><div class="whats-false details" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px;"><h3 class="post-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What's False</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The analysis excluded relevant data and failed to include criteria necessary to prove the claim that women on Senator Warren's staff were paid less than their male counterparts for equivalent work.</font></p></div></div></div><div class="post-body-card post-card card" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: flex; flex-direction: column; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-clip: border-box; border: 1px solid rgb(244, 244, 244); border-radius: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 30px;" ibm="IBM" plex="Plex" sans="Sans" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" font-size="font-size" px="px"><div class="card-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1rem 1.25rem; margin-bottom: 0px; background: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(244, 244, 244); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; border-radius: calc(0.75rem - 1px) calc(0.75rem - 1px) 0px 0px; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between;"><h3 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Origin</font></h3></div><div class="card-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 auto; padding: 30px 30px 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; line-height: 2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On 4 April 2017, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Free Beacon</em> published a <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/elizabeth-warrens-female-staffers-made-71-less-male-staffers-earnings-2016/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; position: relative; font-weight: 700; z-index: 1;">report</a> stating that Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who is considered one of the more politically progressive members of the U.S. Senate, pays her male staffers more than she pays her female staffers, despite the her emphatic public statements on behalf of equal pay for female workers:</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div>