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Partisan does not mean wrong.

The original article is clearly very loaded, but it's also the type of story that the mainstream media hates picking up: massive welfare fraud being used to fund terrorist groups in Somalia gores at least half a dozen sacred cows. This should receive a lot more attention, and, if true, heads should roll (and not low level managers and workers).



In this case, city-journal has previously run articles that make clearly false claims on topics I am familiar with, such as the cost of homelessness on the city of Seattle. I don’t trust them at all.


Minnesota has a welfare fraud problem, and the highest profile scandal (to the tune of a quarter billion dollars) was mostly committed by Somalis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future#Defendants. It's been widely reported.

It's totally plausible some of that money wound up with a Somali terrorist organization.


Then someone else can report on it. I don’t bother reading News of The World in case they say something true either.


>Partisan does not mean wrong.

Sure, but all of this:

>conflates storylines, uses flawed logic, and a variety of other journalistic malfeasance

...combined with the Manhattan Institute's ideological priors don't really help.




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