{"id":1834690,"date":"2023-02-04T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834690"},"modified":"2023-02-04T07:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T12:25:02","slug":"msnbc-host-admits-inconvenient-truth-about-ilhan-omar-committee-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-host-admits-inconvenient-truth-about-ilhan-omar-committee-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Host Admits Inconvenient Truth About Ilhan Omar Committee  Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmsnbc-host-admits-inconvenient-truth-about-ilhan-omar-committee-removal%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=1834690&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-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMjk3NzMxMy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTczMzExMzQ0MH0.ZcAdyu8eqABEUCBayajmIS4WxxQIsRUmCBPFYI5jnX0\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=600&#038;coordinates=0%2C40%2C0%2C37\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The truth is, however, more complex than that. As Melber pointed out, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lorded over the process that resulted in two Republicans \u2014 Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) \u2014 being stripped of their committee assignments two years go. Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/mccarthy-shuts-down-reporters-omar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has explained<\/a>Omar was <em>Only<\/em> Removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaker Pelosi did boot people off the committee. That is where it started,&#8221; Melber stated this on his program. &#8220;You can say for better reasons, but once you go down the road of saying you&#8217;re going to police committees this way, I do think it gets to really difficult tradeoffs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly Melber agreed with both sides. Melber first noted that Omar was guilty of making antisemitic remarks, but then she also agreed that Omar was being targeted because of her looks.<\/p>\n<p>Melber, however, reiterated that Democrats had established this standard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>&#8220;The third thing can be true \u2014 and this is where you know you might lose some people \u2014 but the third thing that can be true is: It was the Democrats who erected a new standard in the last Congress to boot people off a committee,&#8221; He stated. &#8220;Different reasons, but the third thing is true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there were some Democrats who existed before Omar&#8217;s departure from the Foreign Affairs Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/democrats-regret-booting-republicans-from-committees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regret that<\/a> Their party ignored institutional norms. They set a new precedent for 2021 with the removal of Greene&#8217;s and Gosar&#8217;s committee assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Still, McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3841790-mccarthy-says-hes-forming-bipartisan-group-to-write-lawmaker-code-of-conduct-following-omar-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> Thursday, he announced that a bipartisan group will be formed by lawmakers to codify a new code. This was in response to concerns expressed by members of both parties about the possibility of removing them from committees.<\/p>\n<p><em>Like Blaze News? Get stories like these straight to your inbox by signing up for our newsletters. <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/newsletters\/theblaze-articlelink\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Register here<\/a><\/em><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth is, however, more complex than that. As Melber pointed out, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lorded over the process that resulted in two Republicans \u2014 Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) \u2014 being stripped of their committee assignments two years go. Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker has explainedOmar was Only Removed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1834693,"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":[547],"tags":[5216,4384,4863,5202,16797,3746,5205,5199,6426],"class_list":["post-1834690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-admits","tag-committee","tag-host","tag-ilhan","tag-inconvenient","tag-msnbc","tag-omar","tag-removal","tag-truth"],"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\/1834690","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}