{"id":1086420,"date":"2021-12-05T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086420"},"modified":"2021-12-05T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T16:28:47","slug":"omar-kevin-mccarthy-is-a-liar-and-a-coward-gop-normalizing-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omar-kevin-mccarthy-is-a-liar-and-a-coward-gop-normalizing-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar: Kevin McCarthy &#039;Is a Liar and a Coward&#039; &#8212; GOP &#039;Normalizing&#039; Bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomar-kevin-mccarthy-is-a-liar-and-a-coward-gop-normalizing-bigotry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1086420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rep-ilhan-omar-april2021-fileblm-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d that House Minority Leader&nbsp;Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was a \u201cliar and a coward\u201d for how he handled&nbsp;Rep.&nbsp;Lauren Boebert&nbsp;(R-CO) calling Omar the \u201cjihad squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anchor Jake Tapper said, \u201cI want to start with those comments, Boebert comparing you to a terrorist suicide bomber. What is it like to hear that kind of blatant bigotry coming from a fellow member of the House of Representatives?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Omar said, \u201cIt\u2019s shocking and unacceptable. It\u2019s very unbecoming of a congresswoman to use that kind of derogatory, dangerous, inciting language against a colleague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tapper said, \u201cRepublican leader Kevin McCarthy has not publicly condemned Boebert\u2019s comments. On Friday, he was asked, why not? Take a listen to what he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference, McCarthy said, \u201cShe apologized publicly. She apologized personally. She wanted to meet personally, denied the ability to meet personally. She picked up the phone, and she called Congresswoman Omar. She said I want to personally apologize to you. That\u2019s what she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tapper said, \u201cTo be clear, after her conversation with you, Boebert went on social media and doubled down and said things that were equally incendiary. What\u2019s your reaction to McCarthy and how he described it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omar said, \u201cMcCarthy is a liar and a coward. He doesn\u2019t have the ability to condemn the kind of bigoted Islamophobia and anti-Muslim that are being trafficked by members of his conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tapper asked, \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t he have the ability to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Omar said, \u201cThis is who they are. We have to be able to stand up to them. We have to push them to reckon with the fact that their party right now is normalizing anti-Muslim bigotry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pamkeyNEN\">@pamkeyNEN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d that House Minority Leader\u00a0Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was a \u201cliar and a coward\u201d for how he handled\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Lauren Boebert\u00a0(R-CO) calling &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1899064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}