Friday, March 29, AD 2024 4:22am

Not the Babylon Bee

 

As I have noted many times, these are hard times for satirists as reality often seems to be its own parody and satire these days:

Yesterday the New York Post reported that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is having an affair with Democratic strategist Tim Mynett. The allegation was made in divorce papers filed by his wife. In July, Omar filed for divorce from her current husband. A refresher:

Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday. 

It turns out Mynett’s firm was funneled a boat load of Omar’s campaign cash. He was paid more than $200,000 for consulting and the campaign reimbursed at least $21,000 for his personal travel. That travel wasn’t properly reported or itemized.

An official complaint regarding the large payments to Mynett’s firm has already been filed, alleging she broke the law.

“Today, NLPC filed a Complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) alleging that she and her campaign violated the prohibition on the personal use of campaign funds by reimbursing political consultant Tim Mynett for his travel in 2019. The Complaint also alleges that Omar and her campaign failed to itemize the travel reimbursements, as required,” the National Legal and Policy Center released in a statement Wednesday.

“Although Mynett’s formal relationship with Rep. Omar’s campaign began in July 2018, with the payment of $7000 directly to Mynett, the reimbursements for Mynett’s travel did not commence until April 2019, the same month that Dr. Mynett alleges in her filing that her husband told her of the affair, and made a ‘shocking declaration of love’ for Rep. Omar,” the complaint states. 

According to the divorce filing, Mynett’s “more recent travel and long work hours now appear to be more related to his affair with Rep. Omar than his actual work commitments.”

And then there are these timing details from the Washington Examiner:

Here’s the odd thing: The overwhelming majority of Omar’s funds spent on the E Street Group were paid after she won the contested primary and during the totally noncompetitive general election race in her D+26 district. Contrary to FEC rules, Omar’s filings did not designate whether her E Street Group disbursements (or any of her disbursements) were for the primary election or the general election.

Omar is refusing to discuss her “personal life” and has not commented on the issue of campaign funds being improperly used.

The traditional penalty in Islam for adultery is stoning.  It should be noted that the Koran calls for the milder penalty of a hundred lashes:

“Those who commit adultery, men or women, give each of them a hundred lashes” Qur’an 24: 2.

Stoning, rajm, however is mentioned in many hadiths, the alleged sayings of Mohammed not recorded in the Koran.  Stoning, although relatively rare, does still occur in the Islamic world.  Brunei in April of this year, for example, codified stoning as the penalty for adultery in its criminal code.

One more reason that Congresswoman Omar should be thankful, although she will of course not be, that she is living in the land of the free and the home of the brave rather than in an Islamic state where sharia governs, where her life, doubtless, would be, to borrow from Hobbes, “nasty, brutish and short.”

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David WS
David WS
Thursday, August 29, AD 2019 4:58am

I don’t think stoning would apply for a fling with an infidel sex slave.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Thursday, August 29, AD 2019 5:14am

If you understand the nature of comedy (of which satire is a form), you understand it’s the element of truth that makes it funny.

In that light, this is the best of times for satire.

The Babylon Bee is also a more reliable news source than CNN, MSNBC, and all the networks and the New York Times put together. But that isn’t really saying much.

ken
ken
Thursday, August 29, AD 2019 8:11am

Dirty, dirty woman. Don’t let the head covering fool you, she’s as devout as Dick Durbin. For all our fears of Sharia entering our country we must never forget the tremendous appeal of American secularism. At a recent medical appointment I was greeted by a middle eastern young woman (by looks and name) receptionist. Tight short skirt, bright makeup and a blouse unbuttoned to the point that her bra was showing-apologizes to the ladies, but when you display it men’s eyes are naturally drawn to it. I was laughing at the thought of some middle aged Muslim women approaching her with only her eyes visible in full black garb.

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