{"id":2075992,"date":"2023-10-22T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-her-about-hamas-terrorists-ignore-this-crazy-lady\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T21:03:21","slug":"ilhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-her-about-hamas-terrorists-ignore-this-crazy-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-her-about-hamas-terrorists-ignore-this-crazy-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar evades Fox reporter&#8217;s questions on Hamas terrorists: &#8216;Disregard this lady&#8217;s claims&#8217;"},"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%2Filhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-her-about-hamas-terrorists-ignore-this-crazy-lady%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=2075992&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--><h2>Ilhan Omar\u200c Flees Fox Reporter Drilling Her About Hamas Terrorists: &#8216;Ignore This Crazy Lady&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>The \u201csquad\u201d has a different\u200b definition of \u201ccrazy\u201d\u2063 when\u2062 it comes \u200cto questioning terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar, the leftist Democrat from Minnesota, a woman as well known \u2062for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/james-woods-blisters-ilhan-omar-despicable-people-something-statement-9-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downplaying terrorist atrocities<\/a> as she is for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ilhan-omar-roasted-attempt-walk-back-israel-hospital-accusation-makes-things-even-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hatred of Israel<\/a>,\u200d was tracked down Friday by a Fox \u200cBusiness Network on Capitol Hill seeking comment\u2063 about the \u2063ongoing\u200c war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t take the questions well.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the interaction\u2062 here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FOX NEWS REPORTER: \u201cAre you okay with Hamas terrorists continuing to exist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ILHAN OMAR: \u201cIgnore this crazy lady\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oQkG0JMW83\">pic.twitter.com\/oQkG0JMW83<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1715457076187529643?\">October 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Fox reporter\u200c was Hillary Vaughn, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-peter-doocy-reporter-wife-break-one-important-stories-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wife<\/a> of\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/peter-doocy-already-getting-wh-press-secretarys-skin-returns-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">irrepressible Fox News reporter<\/a> Steven Doocy and a terror \u2064in her own right to the far-left \u201csquad\u201d in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>In the week after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel\u2063 that killed more than 1,400 \u2064Israelis, Vaughn made national news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/squad-member-runs-away-reporter-like-child-pressed-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when she peppered<\/a> \u2062 Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib over Tlaib\u2019s reaction to the slaughter and got no response.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Omar failed to respond as well, except she\u2062 launched a \u2063verbal attack on Vaughn once she\u2019d gotten\u200d safely away from Vaughn\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIgnore this crazy lady,\u201d \u2062Omar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/ilhan-omar-stonewalls-fox-business-reporters-questions-on-israel-ceasefire-demands\/ar-AA1iA9pd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a \u2063man<\/a> \u200c who barred Vaughn from the elevator Omar had \u2062fled to. \u201cDon\u2019t worry about her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, to Omar,\u200d Vaughn is \u200c\u201ccrazy\u201d for questioning \u2064the decision by Omar and her squadmates \u200dto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/squad-puts-forward-resolution-calling-israel-cease-response-hamas-terror-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sponsor a resolution<\/a> calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas \u2063conflict before Israel has even gotten those responsible for the Oct. 7 slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Vaughn is\u200d \u201ccrazy\u201d for questioning \u2062whether peace \u200cis\u2064 even possible\u200b between Israel \u200dand an organization of murderous Islamists dedicated to\u200b wiping out the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can Israel have\u200c a cease-fire with \u200cterrorists \u2063whose mission is to \u200cwipe \u200cout their existence?\u201d Vaughn asked Omar.<\/p>\n<p>To reasonable people, that\u2019s a reasonable \u200cquestion \u2014 if only because its\u200b absurdity demonstrates the absurdity of the \u2064leftist line being propagated by the \u201csquad,\u201d \u200cdeluded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-cbs-airs-fluff-piece-glorifying-students-shouting-intifada-anti-israel-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">college students and academics<\/a>, and leftists on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-lives-matter-showing-support-hamas-amid-terrorist-attacks-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streets of American cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the pro-Palestinian side, Israel is the aggressor, even as it mourns its dead and seeks the release of hostages kidnapped \u2062during the Oct. 7 \u200battack. For the left, even righteous retaliation should be refused to Israel in the name of a\u2063 spurious \u200b\u201cpeace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact \u2063that Omar \u2062had the arrogance\u2063 to ignore the questions,\u2063 the fact that she fled in lieu \u2063of turning to answer, spoke volumes about the intellectual \u2064poverty of American radicals who\u2019ve cast \u200ctheir lot \u200bor the blood-soaked perpetrators of Palestinian terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>For the contemporary \u200bleft, even\u200b questioning how a\u2063 civilized \u2062country is supposed to deal with an entity of evil that\u2019s explicitly devoted to its destruction is supposed to be \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority \u2064of \u2064Americans know better \u2014\u200d notwithstanding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/media-refuses-to-report-5-things-palestinians-do-to-frame-israelis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lying establishment media<\/a> and campuses rife\u2064 with crazies.<\/p>\n<p>As even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/15\/politics\/cnn-poll-israel-hamas-war-americans\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN poll<\/a> found \u2062in the wake of the\u2064 Oct. 7 attack, American sympathy is overwhelmingly on Israel\u2019s side in the current conflict (though, regrettably, \u2062the finding was \u200ddiluted among younger respondents and \u200dDemocrats).<\/p>\n<p>The hard fact is, the \u201csane\u201d side in\u2062 this fight \u200bis\u2062 not on the side of savages who slaughter civilians, behead babies and use the rape women as a weapon of war.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Ilhan\u200d Omar appears to think the opposite says more about her than she will probably ever know.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A Note from Our Staff:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you know that\u200b 90 percent of advertisers will have nothing to do with The Western Journal? \u200cThe liberal elites have put us on one of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-see-wholesome-overseas-mcdonalds-ad-realize-what-the-companys-doing-here\/\" title=\"Overseas McDonald's ad reveals company's true intentions\">financial kill lists<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They\u2062 did it because we\u2019ve told\u200c the truth and spoken out against them for over a decade. 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And,\u200d unlike \u200dwith Starbucks, you can be 100 percent certain\u2064 that every penny we spend goes toward\u2063 fighting for traditional American \u2064values and against liberal elites.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Please <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/join-monthly\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>help us<\/b><\/a><b>  continue exposing the truth.\u200c Please <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/join-monthly\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>subscribe today<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you \u200dfor\u200b reading The Western Journal!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ilhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-hamas-terrorists-ignore-crazy-lady\/\">Ilhan Omar Flees Fox \u2063Reporter Drilling Her\u200c About Hamas Terrorists: &#8216;Ignore This Crazy Lady&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What is the significance of Omar&#8217;s \u2063dismissive \u2064and\u200c disrespectful behavior towards\u200d a reporter?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ael had\u2062 a chance to respond to the \u2063terrorist attacks launched by Hamas.\u200b Omar and her squadmates, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and \u200dAyanna Pressley, have consistently shown their support for \u2062Palestine and their disdain for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2062 is not surprising that Omar \u2063would react in such a dismissive and disrespectful manner towards a reporter who dared to question her \u200cstance. This behavior\u200b is consistent with her track record of \u2062avoiding tough\u2063 questions and evading accountability.<\/p>\n<p>By\u200d referring\u200b to \u2063Vaughn as\u200c a &#8220;crazy lady,&#8221; Omar attempted to discredit and\u2063 demean her. Instead of engaging in a thoughtful, nuanced discussion,\u200b Omar resorted to name-calling and personal attacks. This\u2063 is a common tactic \u200bemployed by\u200b those who are unable or unwilling to defend their positions with facts\u200c and logic.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2064 is worth noting that\u2064 this is not the first time Omar has faced criticism \u200bfor her controversial\u200c statements\u200c and actions. In the past,\u200c she has made \u2064anti-Semitic remarks and\u200c expressed \u200dsupport for boycotts against\u200d Israel. Her views and actions\u2063 have sparked outrage and condemnation from both \u200bsides of the \u200dpolitical spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, despite\u200b the controversy surrounding her, \u200dOmar has\u2064 managed to\u200c maintain a strong base of support within the\u2063 Democratic Party. Her \u2063rhetoric and \u200bagenda resonate with a\u2063 certain segment of the \u200dparty&#8217;s base, and she \u200bhas \u200bbecome a prominent voice for progressive policies.<\/p>\n<p>However, it \u2062is concerning that someone with Omar&#8217;s track record and apparent \u2062lack of respect for\u200b the press and the democratic \u2064process continues to hold\u2064 public office. It is crucial that elected officials be held accountable for their actions\u2063 and be willing to engage in\u200c open and honest dialogue with the\u200c media \u200dand the public.<\/p>\n<p>The incident with \u2064Vaughn highlights the need \u2062for \u200bjournalists to remain persistent in \u200ctheir pursuit \u2064of the truth and for elected officials to be transparent and willing to address tough questions. It is\u200b the responsibility of \u200cthe press to hold those in power accountable and to provide the public with \u200caccurate\u200b and unbiased information.<\/p>\n<p>In a democracy, it is essential that elected officials be open to criticism\u200b and willing \u2064to engage in meaningful dialogue.\u2062 Omar&#8217;s dismissive and\u200b disrespectful \u2062behavior towards a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-flees-fox-reporter-drilling-her-about-hamas-terrorists-ignore-this-crazy-lady\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar evades Fox reporter's questions on Hamas terrorists: 'Disregard this lady's claims'\">reporter raises concerns<\/a> \u2064about her commitment \u200dto \u200ctransparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>It is my \u2063hope that \u2063this incident will serve as \u200ba \u2062reminder of the importance of a free \u2062and independent \u2063press in holding those in power accountable. \u2062Journalists play \u200da vital role in\u2064 our society, and it is\u200b crucial \u2063that they are able to ask tough questions\u200c and receive honest and thoughtful answers from our elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the incident involving \u200cIlhan Omar and\u2063 Hillary Vaughn is a stark reminder \u200cof the divisive and dismissive \u200bnature of modern politics. It is crucial \u200cthat we hold our elected officials to a higher standard and demand transparency and accountability. Only through open and honest \u2062dialogue\u2064 can we hope to bridge \u2064the divide and address the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-richard-burr-explains-guilty-decision-after-voting-trial-unconstitutional\/\" title=\"Republican Richard Burr Explains \u2018Guilty\u2019 Decision After Voting Trial Unconstitutional\">critical issues facing<\/a> our nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;squad&#8221; has a unique perspective on questioning terrorist attacks. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a left-leaning Democrat from Minnesota, is notorious for downplaying terrorist atrocities and expressing animosity towards Israel. 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