The late, great Rush Limbaugh had a phrase, “drive-by media,” to describe the national press corps that would swoop in for an event or disaster to claim credit, assign blame, and then move on.
We are witnessing the phenomenon around the massive Minnesota Somali fraud scandal. And it’s a welcome thing.
In this round, we had the City Journal piece, followed by the New York Times report.
The U.K. Daily Mail followed up on the Times report with,
How Somali fraudsters ran riot allegedly stealing more than $1BILLION of taxpayers’ money on Tim Walz’s watch: ‘We’re losing our way of life’
A whistleblower Twitter (X) account operated by employees of the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) posted a response to Gov. Tim Walz that has received 20 million views so far. They begin their post,
Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response.
Fox News picked up on the viral post under the headline,
Minnesota government workers blame Walz for ‘massive fraud’ amid allegations against Somali community
The man himself, Tim Walz, appeared on NBC News this morning to blame the whole scandal on…Donald Trump. As quoted by Fox News,
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
For the record, Walz has put exactly zero people in jail in connection to the multi-billion-dollar, Somali-ethnic-based fraud. But, he is running for a third term as Minnesota governor.
So there’s that.
