Hard to keep up with the howlers regularly published by the Star Tribune. The paper apparently thinks comedy is the way to stop the massive outflow of readers and advertisers. Minnesota has been identified as the fraud capital of the world, but the Strib is doing its best to minimize the harm done and the person primarily responsible–Little Timmy Walz. So much of the last two weeks coverage focuses on how mistreated and misunderstood the Somali community is, even though they are the obvious perpetrators of most of the fraud. If the Strib spent one-hundredth of the effort spent on defending Somalis to instead investigating fraud, this never would have gotten to the point it did and Somalis wouldn’t be getting a well-deserved bashing. The most hilarious story published by the paper attempted to minimize the amount of fraud, claiming Trump was exaggerating. A couple of days later the US attorney responsible for uncovering and prosecuting the frauds (racist Minnesota AG Keith Ellison actively helped the perpetrators) said the number was far bigger than even previously identified–as much as $9 billion. The Strib editors looked like the idiots they are.
Another theme is twisting every economic report to make the Trump administration look as bad as possible. So the unemployment report was portrayed as showing weakness, when in reality the only significant weakness was in federal and other government employment. The inflation reports were incomplete so don’t believe the indications they give than it is lessening.
The immigration nonsense continues to be played up. Minnesota has welcomed, invited in, all kinds of illegal immigrants, who return the favor by committing crimes and stealing government blind. When the federal government attempts a crackdown to get the criminals and crooks out of the state and stop them from coming in, the Strib celebrates those interfering with legitimate law enforcement efforts. The paper never once mentions that those actions are themselves illegal and never mentions that the state and local officials opposing immigration enforcement do so because they are afraid of losing votes, usually fraudulent votes, from this group and afraid of losing campaign donations from the fraudsters.
Random items–the paper ignores the evidence that Biden’s DOJ went after Trump against the advice of the FBI. They have a bizarre front-page story in which the whacko prosecuting Trump, Jack Smith, claims he was right, despite the courts booting his cases. It is still just awful that Trump is killing drug traffickers and confronting the brutal, criminal regime in Venezuela. The paper and Dems tried to make hay out of Epstein releases until it became apparent Dems were more at risk than Trump from those releases. Indiana refusing to redistrict to help reps took courage–no comment on all the Dem states going ahead and screwing Rep voters in those states. The paper is edging toward blatant anti-semitism. It ignores for as long as possible the obvious Muslim targeting of Jews, for example in Sydney. Its coverage of Gaza focuses on supposed Israeli abuses.
Meanwhile, aside from the fraud making national and international headlines, the Twin Cities continue to see very high levels of crime and businesses continue to close as a result of this and other policies. State and local budgets are out of whack and residents are being hit with very high property and sales tax increases. Tim Walz talks about gun violence in a flailing effort to avoid visibility and responsibility for all the fraud. He might want to take note that Australia has incredibly strict gun laws, which didn’t stop the slaughter of Jews on Bondi Beach. Keith Ellison pimps getting a settlement with car makers to install anti-theft devices, while ignoring his complete failure to address the carjacking epidemic. Transit board members don’t use the mass transit they oversee, and who can blame them, it is crime-ridden. Trump’s budget cuts might affect the walleye in Minnesota’s lakes–this story merited the top of the front-page one day.
Here is how pathetic the reporting in this paper is. Take any given day. Most of the front-page stories and the first inside pages will be cribbed from AP, the New York Times, the Washington Post or other left-wing sources. The Strib does little actual journalism. The paper totally whiffed on fraud investigations or coverage, when it could have gotten a prize for doing actual investigative reporting. The paper literally and figuratively gets smaller every week. While I would hate to miss the comics and what little sports reporting is done, the paper disappearing would be a blessing to the state. We don’t need the constant shilling for far-left Dem loons. We need honest, tough reporting on our state and local government and a real appraisal of the many problems the state faces.
And back to the humor theme, here is what had me howling. The main front page story on December 8 is about college students getting classes in identifying mis-information. Of course this is all directed at Trump and Reps. But the main source of mis-information in Minnesota is the Star Tribune. You can’t make this up.
