Transcript of the recording Rep. Omar released in support of her claim

[lapucelle]

that her words were distorted.



Here's the actual recording.

https://soundcloud.com/ilhanomar/obama2

[CrossingTheRubicon]

1. That's not going to help her.

I'm done with her.

[lapucelle]

3. It seems to prove that the story was accurate and that Omar's charge of distortion was not. N/T

[kcr]

7. Yep. Not only was it not distorted, listening to it again I think it was worse

It really comes across as Obama is just a prettier, more polished murderer.

[ChazII]

89. That is how I heard her message

that Pres. Obama was a more polished murder. Glad to know that I am not alone.

[hughee99]

18. This context does not help her like she seems to think it does.

And she doesn’t seem to recognize that.

[RockRaven]

2. I'm certain apologies will begin rolling in soon from everyone who responded to the distortions...

[BannonsLiver]

15. Why would anyone apologize?

She said what she said and now she’s seeing that those words have consequences. She’s the one who needs to be rocking the contrition, not those of us who support President Obama. So no, there won’t be any Fucking apologies forthcoming on this end because there are no apologies warranted here.

[John Fante]

4. Omar tweeted "I'm an Obama fan!" shortly thereafter. Yeah, no.

She needs to be primaried, quick.

[Hassler]

5. +1

[CrossingTheRubicon]

8. With friend like this, who needs enemies?

[Peacetrain]

9. +1

[Cha]

29. SNAP SNAP!!

[Cha]

20. No shit?!!

[BannonsLiver]

24. She knows she fucked up.

She’s getting utterly roasted on Twitter.

[Cha]

25. Yeah, she fucked it up.. but how on

Earth does she think she can get away with saying it was "distorted" when there's receipts that say otherwise?

[TeamPooka]

70. I guess she's a sucker for a pretty face and smile.

[Cha]

73. Who needs enemies, Omar? She deletes her tweet.

Link to tweet

[still_one]

6. This the same Ralph Nader false equivalency bullshit. Glad she isn't my Representative

[betsuni]

10. Both parties same but Democrats are worse, the more perfidious warmongers. Be not complacent!

Really the only way to read it. Typical Justice Democrat nonsense, that the true roadblock to nice things is the Democratic Party status quo blah blah blah blah.

[dem4decades]

11. She is the Republicans best campaign ad. And Hayes going against Pelosi

Makes my blood boil. It won't take that many seats to flip for us to be back in the minority and then all is lost.

[kcr]

12. Disappointed about Hayes.

I hope Omar's recent comments made her think twice.

[dem4decades]

16. They've both been there 2 months, and they think they know everything.

Pelosi deserves better. So do we.

[lapucelle]

51. What is this supposed to mean?

Link to tweet

[blue cat]

78. What did Hayes say

Sorry, I can’t find it.

[George II]

62. Are you talking about Chris Hayes or Jahanna Hayes? I haven't heard her say anything and....

....I don't watch Chris Hayes, I can't stomach him.

[ripcord]

13. Disappointing

[SidDithers]

14. Primary her...nt

Sid

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Well said.

[Cha]

26. What was "well said"?

[MrsCoffee]

46. Must not have been.

[Cha]

72. Right.. Not that "well said".

[TwilightZone]

21. "immigration policy was no better under BHO than under GWB"

She didn't compare him to Bush. She compared him to Trump.

You think Obama's policy was better than Trump's? That would be the relevant question.

As for the continuation of the drone program, even Sanders said he would continue it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/11/bernie-sanders-drones-counter-terror

If you're going to suggest that others step out of their bubbles, you might want to do the same. "Both sides" is bullshit, regardless of the source. Always has been.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Except when "truth to power" is bullshit

But thanks for the purity lecture, I guess.

[Cha]

27. Yeah, Omar's statement on Pres Obama was

so "truth to power".. she's now saying it was "distorted"? Which it wasn't.

So what is the truth, Omar?

Link to tweet

"They only seperated families when it was determined that the children would be in danger in prison, and the parent couldn't be released due to criminal charges. They always placed children either with relatives or sponsors who were thouroughly vetted."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11901011

[BannonsLiver]

30. Word up, Cha!

Thanks for the link. That is a terrific post.

[Cha]

31. Mahalo, BL!

[jcmaine72]

23. I tried giving her the benefit of the doubt but I'm starting to think she's a lost cause.

[lapucelle]

53. I bet the Politico reporter is glad Omar posted her self-recording. N/T

[Cha]

28. Mahalo for doing the research, lapucelle!

You're so brilliant at that!

[lapucelle]

48. I didn't want to listen because frankly I've heard enough from her this week.

I'm glad I did.

I miss Keith Ellison in that seat.

Mahalo, my friend!

[Cha]

68. Strong stomach, too!

Thank You!

[MFM008]

32. I wonder if

The repubes will have a fit about what she
Said about Obama.....anyone?

[Cha]

33. KICK!

[betsuni]

34. Again, some people don't think even their own quotes are real.

Weird.

[lapucelle]

52. This "shoot the messenger" attempt was so ineffective that she deleted the tweet. N/T

[Raine]

35. Seems to me what was reported was accurate

I'm guess I'm missing the distortion.

[SunSeeker]

38. It sure seemed accurately reported to me.

She says Obama caged kids. That is a lie and a Trump talking point.

Inexcusable.

[dustyscamp]

36. I feel that many Independents also feel the same about Obama

[Cha]

37. What? they believe the LIES?

Link to tweet

"They only seperated families when it was determined that the children would be in danger in prison, and the parent couldn't be released due to criminal charges. They always placed children either with relatives or sponsors who were thouroughly vetted."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11901011

[dustyscamp]

40. These people are too apathetic to look into why Obama did what he did and buy into the bothsideisms

[lostnfound]

47. Ha. Maybe "bothsideisms " is a word to get through to them

I know people like this. When I was in college 35 years ago, I was somewhat similar in saying that “they all do it”. Drives me crazy now because I realize we can elect the very best people like PBO and it only undermines them to criticize them that way. Old enough to know that everyone in the system has limited power to change it, from the president on down.

But those naive, virulent idealists love to extend the “isms” to everything. So sure of themselves as better than everyone.

[lapucelle]

54. I wonder why Omar appended

this emoji to her tweeted claim that her words were distorted by the reporter.

[lapucelle]

55. I would post the actual tweet, but it's been deleted. N/T

[Cha]

69. I don't know, it didn't work.. here's her tweet that lives on..

Link to tweet

[tonedevil]

39. If I went by the comments here...

I would be certain she would be fired by Monday. My understanding of how Congressional terms work leads me to believe she will be a thorn in some sides for another year and a half.

[Carrito]

41. Who's the polished guy who got away with murder?

At the end of the transcript.
She refers to someone more polished than Trump who got away with murder.

[Cha]

42. Ilhan Omar Backtracks After Calling Obama a "Pretty Face" Who "Got Away with Murder"

Snip//

Democrats didn’t abandon Omar over her comments about Israel. Her criticism of Barack Obama is another matter.

Omar says the “hope and change” offered by Barack Obama was a mirage. Recalling the “caging of kids” at the U.S.-Mexico border and the “droning of countries around the world” on Obama’s watch, she argues that the Democratic president operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor.

“We can’t be only upset with Trump . . . His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was,”

Omar says. “And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/ilhan-omar-barack-obama-pretty-face

And, as long as we're having a drone conversation..

Link to tweet

[betsuni]

45. This cannot be repeated enough. All American presidents will use drone warfare.

[Hortensis]

43. She keeps being "misunderstood," and yet I'm not sympathetic.

Turns out she was being misunderstood before she ran for congress. There's a pattern here.

So her district elected someone whose statements occasionally smell of antisemitism? Not great, but she represents the people who elected her, not the Democratic Party as a whole. Except when she punches the Republicans in the nose for the right reasons, or something close to.

But she's far left (and possibly right, tbd), and I think we should get used to her also being a nuisance for the Democratic mainstream and not wig out every time it happens. The press are now clustered around her, eager for each new controversial pearl from her photogenic lips, and she's apparently eager to meet her destiny.

Meanwhile, as always, the real problem is on the right, and it's huge. Muslims and Jews killing each other is seen as foreordained by most. Some loathe both and delight. Most don't care that much but are 100% behind Jews holding a state in the Middle East for Christians to eventually take over. And that's what this is really about. Religious wars, potentially planetwide rivers of blood, over whose god gets what if sensible people don't get a leash on these types.

[musicblind]

44. I don't know what the distortion was, I haven't followed, but that transcript is horrible.

Just awful. As someone else said, I'm glad she isn't my representative.

[George II]

49. So what she said was NOT mischaracterized in the Politico report. These are the VERY SAME WORDS...

....that Politico published.

"I will talk about the family separation or caging of kids and then people will point out that this was wrong. I mean this was Obama."

"We don't want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished."

[lapucelle]

50. It sure seems that way.

This looks like a "Lordy, I hope there are tapes" moment fulfilled for the reporter who she claimed had distorted her words.

Rep. Omar has since deleted the tweet along with the link to her "Exhibit A" evidence.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1104116455224807424

I'm glad there are screenshots of the deleted tweet and a transcript and copies of her self-recording.

[NurseJackie]

56. I believe she'll have a very short career.

[murielm99]

57. I hope she has a short career.

We just don't need to lose the seat to a repiggie.

[lapucelle]

58. We don't need anyone distracting from our 2020 message

with the ridiculous "both parties are the same" narritive that was stoked in 2016.

[NurseJackie]

60. BS says it too. Along with Stein-voting Sarandon and Nader-voting Moore and Stein-voting Turner.

I'm sick of the divisive lies. It's simply NOT TRUE that the Democrats are "the party of the elite". It's a LIE to claim that the Democrats are the "party for the one percent".

All I'm saying is that the lies only serve to divide and weaken the Democratic party... and a weakened Democratic party only serves to benefit the GOP, and Trump, and RUSSIA!

[Sgent]

95. I hope the rest of it is from

the outside looking in.

I don't want her forming Democratic policy. Let her and Stephen King fight it out on their committee of two.

[awesomerwb1]

59. Dear lord.

She's not helping.

[forklift]

61. OMG ... she is being disingenuous and venomous

on top of being naive and ill-informed.

So which one of the following options she would have chosen?

1. Let the terrorists roam free, unhindered, and attack our troops and our allied people at every opportunity.

2. Do a massive ground operation with full air support and kill thousands of civilians and a few hundred Americans to kill a handful of terrorists.

3. Use targeted drones which were 98% effective and killed only a few civilians without risking American lives.




She wants Option 1 because it is a culture of peace in a land of milk and honey and nice people all around.

[George II]

63. Why did she delete the tweet that contained that?

[lapucelle]

64. It didn't serve her narrative in the way she thought it would.

She posted the audio as "Exhibit A' evidence that the reporter "distorted" her words. Nobody but the congresswoman saw the alleged distortion.

[George II]

65. So, she spoke without thinking it through, then posted her rationale without thinking it through...

We seem to have a trend here.

[lapucelle]

75. And she also appears to have accused the reporter of distorting her words

without thinking that through either.

[Cha]

67. Here it is, lapucelle.. Mahalo for your OP!

Link to tweet

[Cha]

66. So, Omar deleted the tweet? Oh wait.. here it is..

Internet forever..

Link to tweet

I was just going to say..

"Not a good sign to back up her story of "distortion".

[lapucelle]

71. I'm so glad that the congresswoman posted the audio...

... and the writer of the story is probably relieved. Any gaslighting concerning "distortions" were put to rest by the recording and a transcript of the congresswoman's actual words in full context.

[mcar]

74. She needs to think more and talk less right now

[wellst0nev0ter]

76. I See Someone Making a Valid Criticism

of Barack Obama (unaccompanied minors WERE caged during his administration), but it was interpreted by an unsympathetic beltway journalist as another "Dems in Disarray" story.

I swear there's no space to criticize anything, unless we add a lengthy preamble to every utterance.

[lapucelle]

77. Then why did the congresswoman delete the tweet accusing the journalist of distortion? N/T

[wellst0nev0ter]

79. She wanted to present her side of the story

but realized people, like yourself, are going to see her quotes in the worst possible light no matter how they're presented and despite any facts. And the politico story juiced it up as another Dems in Disarray shiny object for us to feast on, so she decided to just take the oxygen out of the fake controversy.

[lapucelle]

80. She said what she said, and her words speak for themselves.

[wellst0nev0ter]

81. Yes, her words certainly does

Now if we can just find people to listen to them. Accurately.

[lapucelle]

83. People both listened and read the transcript. There is nothing "innacurate" about listening to

and reading the congresswoman's exact words.

[Cha]

82. Exactly, lapucelle..

that was tried on me.

"Omar didn't say what she said.. even only people could listen better.."

[George II]

87. The Politico story presented the wording EXACTLY the same as the wording....

....that was in the recording as posted by Congresswoman Omar in a tweet. I suspect that is why she subsequently deleted that tweet.

No "juicing up" whatsoever.

[forklift]

84. kick nt

[Cha]

85. I know.. let's see what politicians defend

her disparaging remarks against President Obama.

Now she's on the defensive.. she could have made her points without her hateful untrue digs thrown at President Obama.

[betsuni]

86. Has she explained what she really meant if she didn't mean what she said?

Anybody know?

[forklift]

88. She can't explain it away

She meant to diss President Obama. It was by design.

[betsuni]

91. Looks like it.

Otherwise she would've come out with an explanation by now.

[Cha]

90. Not very well, imo..

snip//

"After many took Omar's comments as a harsh critique of Obama, who remains widely popular across the Democratic Party, she took to Twitter to clarify the comments, writing, "I'm an Obama fan! I was saying how Trump is different from Obama, and why we should focus on policy not politics."

In a March 2018 Quinnpiac Poll 49 percent of Democrats ranked Obama as the best president the United States has had since World War II."

https://abc13.com/rep-ilhan-omar-says-her-criticism-of-president-obama-was-distorted/5178653/

Weird. Words Matter and she can say "I'm an Obama fan" but it doesn't compute with why she would say those ugly untrue things about him.

It sounded very personal.

[betsuni]

92. Hmmm, so nothing new.

I didn't know anything about her, thought she was new to politics but turns out she isn't.

[Cha]

93. Right.. she didn't flippantly

"clarify" anything.

And yeah, I just found out she's not new to politics.

[Hortensis]

94. False equivalency with Republicans delivered with a

wordy padding of rhetoric that actually reinforces it. Republicans atrocities are "just more polished" than Obama's and others "who came before" Trump and this Republican congress?

That's not just extremism talking, it's stupid and dishonest.