New York Times: Jesus Was 'Most Likely a Palestinian Man'

    Based on a recent correction, the New York Times took a week to conclude that Jesus was Jewish.
    An April 19th article entitled "As a Black Child in Los Angeles, I Couldn’t Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes" addressed the frequently-voiced observation that many artists' renderings of Jesus portray him as a "fair skinned, fair haired, blue eyed" man, a likely inaccurate Westernized version of Jesus, a middle eastern man.
    However, the article also asserted (because of an "editing error," according to the Times) that "Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin." A screenshot of the article as it originally appeared (April 19th online, April 20th in print on page A2) is shown here:

    On April 27th, the article was updated to say, "But Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem, presumably had the complexion of a Middle Eastern man," as shown here:

    The full correction reads, "Because of an editing error, an article last Saturday referred incorrectly to Jesus’s background. While he lived in an area that later came to be known as Palestine, Jesus was a Jew who was born in Bethlehem."

In Six Weeks, Media Matters for America Tweets About Fox News 167 Times

    Media Matters for America describes itself as "a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." But a review of MMFA's tweets finds that a single network receives the lion's share of MMFA"s attention.
    In an article picked up widely across the media, MMFA reported under the headline "Six weeks of Fox's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez obsession": "In the six weeks from February 25 and April 7, her name was mentioned 3,181 times on Fox News and Fox Business[.]"
    Now a review of the Twitter account of Media Matters for America by The Script finds that during the same time period (2/25-4/7/19) Fox was reviewed by MMFA for Ocasio-Cortez references, MMFA tweeted about Fox 167 times. In contrast, other news networks were mentioned by MMFA as follows: CNN, 13; NBC, 4; ABC, MSNBC, and CBS, 2 times each.
    As of 1:45 PM on Sunday, April 14, there were 39 references to Fox on the website homepage of Media Matters. Other news networks mentioned on the page: NBC, 3; CBS, MSNBC and CNN, 1; ABC, 0.
    While MMFA's description of its mission is "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting... U.S. media," it does limit itself to weeding out "conservative misinformation."

Rep. Ilhan Omar: 'Raise Hell, Make People Uncomfortable', 'Tired' of US Muslims 'Being a Second-Class Citizen'

   Rep. Ilhan Omar's recent comments regarding 9/11 at a Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet have caused an uproar amongst her detractors, and their response has caused a similar uproar amongst her supporters. Omar's comments have mostly been heard in short excerpts, but her complete remarks are available here on YouTube. Below is a transcription of the remarks surrounding her mention of 9/11 and the video queued up to the excerpt is embedded below as well.

"It doesn't matter how good you are if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about but when Islam is mentioned we are only talking about terrorists and if you say something you are sent to the principal's office. So to me I say, raise hell, make people uncomfortable because here's the truth, here's the truth: far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly I'm tired of it and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. So you can't just say that today someone is looking at me strange, that I am going to try to make myself look pleasant.  You have to say this person is looking at me strange I am not comfortable with it I am going to go talk to them and ask them why, because that is a right you have."

   Rep. Omar has a history of making remarks regarding the US that rub her detractors the wrong way. In 2017, Omar wrote that "our nation was founded by genocide and we maintain global power through neocolonialism," as The Script reported earlier on Thursday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, 2017: 'Our Nation Was Founded By Genocide'

    In the wake of the display of white nationalism and the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, WV in August 2017, then-Minnesota state representative Ilhan Omar wrote an op-ed for Time Magazine entitled "Unity Will Take Generations."
   Rep. Omar wrote that "American hate is not new — and it is not scarce," and that "our nation was founded by the genocide of indigenous people and on the backs of slaves, [and] that we maintain global power with the tenor of neocolonialism."
   She promoted her article on Twitter as shown here:

   Omar argued in the op-ed that there has been a "regression in our democracy [and] we are fighting for the lost promises of liberty, justice and pursuit of happiness." She suggested education and interaction "with those we fear and hate" can help "bridge the divide."
   Addressing the white nationalism and violence of Charlottesville, Omar wrote that "we have not focused on laws to protect us from domestic terrorism. We are at a bigger risk of destroying ourselves than falling at the hands of external extremists." (Rep. Omar has recently come under criticism for an offhand reference to 9/11 as "something" that "some people did.")
   Rep. Omar concluded her op-ed asserting that there is still hope to restore America:

It is possible, but it will take a long time — we are trying to undo centuries of institutional and personal hatred and exclusion. This is a generational project; do not underestimate the power of human connection.

    Rep. Omar's office did not respond to emailed questions from The Script regarding her comment that this country was "founded by genocide" and whether or not her statement that the United States "maintain[s] global power with the tenor of neocolonialism" applied during the Barack Obama administration as well.