Somali Corruption and the Mainstream Media

 It is the season for New Year’s Resolutions, always an exciting time. Diets begin and exercise regimens commence; people commit to look for new jobs, new relationships, new hobbies... addicts try to give up their demons, from candy to alcohol, from television to video games. Everything begins anew.

And if you look closely, you can even see it in the news coverage. 

Look, for example, at the mainstream media coverage of Minnesota’s massive Somali corruption, with attitudes being wholly transformed in real time. There’s a clear process for the media to follow: 

1. The mainstream media hides the story, hoping it will go away. 

2. Eventually, after enough video exposure, enough press conferences by federal investigators, and enough arrests, the media covers both sides, acknowledging the corruption while also giving equal time to the accused, trying to give the impression that it might just be a witch hunt, or an undue focus on a tiny corrupt sample that doesn’t really reflect badly on the entire group, and it can only be racism/sexism/bigotry/partisanship to claim it is. 

3. Then, finally, they have to admit it. They cover the story that they should have discovered years ago, to defend their honor as journalists, while still praying it will go away quickly so it doesn’t reflect badly on them, on their issues, or on their party. 

4. And now that they have an article or two to point to, showing that they did indeed cover the undeniable story, they never mention it again, and they return to their normal process of denying that there’s any real substantial corruption in their beloved Democrat Party or in any of its corrupt subsidiaries, programs, and acolytes. 

It’s really quite fascinating to watch. 

What causes the rest of us to reform our own lives? We get blackout drunk at a party and realize we need to quit the booze, or we weigh in at a shocking twenty or thirty or forty pounds overweight and realize we need to quit the pizzas and ice cream.

Does that happen to the mainstream media at all?

Do the reporters for CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNOW, AP and Reuters actually look at a news story like the Somali-connected fraud of Minnesota and feel that same shellshock punch, like seeing a scary number on a scale or waking up in one’s car in a ditch, and have that powerful Road to Damascus awakening that they’ve been carrying the water for the wrong side all these years, and it must be time to reform? 

It could -- conceivably -- be a similar impact. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be. 

Conservatives said for years that the massive importation of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees was a corruption of our immigration process, that they were brought here to shore up Minnesota’s voting patterns, that they were an NGO project to funnel tax dollars into ill-considered social spending and likely corrupt programs. 

And the Democrat Party and their media puppets looked the other way as crime rose, as tax dollars were burned up, as the standard of living of one of the Midwest’s once-great communities fell at a record rate. They didn’t acknowledge what was happening right in front of their eyes; they just stopped watching the crime reports, the economic statistics, the climbing welfare state, and plummeting test scores in the schools.

Until, in December 2025, they just couldn’t avert their eyes anymore. 

Nick Shirley’s viral videos and Kash Patel’s press conferences made it an unavoidable news story, and the mainstream media finally must cover the truth: that the Somali invasion of the Twin Cities was fraught with crime and corruption, that they’ve burned through billions of tax dollars and destroyed once-safe American working-class communities, and that, to at least some extent, the Democrat party and their most recent vice-presidential nominee were complicit. 

It’s getting coverage. 

But will it stick? Will this coverage last? Will it be a transformational moment for America’s mainstream media reporters? 

It could be. But let’s look at the most recent examples of similar revelations. 

In the summer and fall of 2025, as the Trump administration voided the 2009 Climate Endangerment Finding, forcing federal law to return to sanity at last, investors and manufacturers alike abandoned the lunacy of their imagined fear of carbon dioxide, changing manufacturing and funding patterns, retreating from the climate cult and returning to some degree of acceptance of real science. Even such true believers as Bill Gates and Ford Motor Company publicly announced their newfound embrace of common sense. 

The press announced it, but was there a long-term change in their attitude? 

Of course not. They covered the stories so nobody could say they didn’t, but then they stubbornly refused to learn anything, and the attitude and underlying philosophy with which they cover other stories remained the same. 

Or look earlier, at the winter and spring of 2025, when the press suddenly discovered that Joe Biden had indeed been mentally incompetent for years, that their pals in the DNC and the Biden administration had willfully, dangerously, treasonously hidden the extraordinary measures necessary to hide Joe Biden’s senility, from the 2020 campaign throughout his four-year reign of error. 

They covered that story too. They wrung their hands and cried real tears as they “admitted” how they’d been conned by the Biden inner circle into believing that Old Joe was sharper than he’d ever been, and that the Republican reports of his senility were just partisan spin. They published exposes like Jake Tapper’s Original Sin and swore they’d never be hornswoggled that way again. 

The press insisted that they’d learned their lesson, this time, for sure. 

Have they? 

Or did the press drop that hot potato the second they realized that this admission would call into question every bill, every executive order, and every appointment that their precious doddering fool of a puppet president had signed for four years? 

For whatever reason -- ideology, education, on-the-job training, the newsroom culture, bribery, the cocktail party circuit, or some mix of the above -- the mainstream media isn’t good at learning lessons and reforming their own behavior. 

They will cover the Somali Medicare and Medicaid fraud, the Somali daycare fraud, the Somali foodservice fraud, maybe even a little of the Somali vote fraud. They will cover it when they are forced to, when it becomes so overwhelming that they can’t bury it anymore.

But will they learn a lesson from it? Will they learn to listen when conservatives see the same patterns repeat in the future? Will they cover news conferences about other corrupt public services, other corrupt sanctuary cities, other massive wastes of taxpayer dollars and the utter destruction of other cities in exactly the same way, time and time again? 

Or will it just be like a thousand other New Year’s Resolutions, a commitment made under fire, driven by a date on the calendar or a pressured moment on a talk show, to be abandoned after a few weeks, as soon as the pressure is off? 

Personally, I’m hoping it’s real this time, and the mainstream media really will reform itself this year. I’m hoping that the major newsrooms will finally appreciate the constitutional duty of a free press, and cover the news as honestly and robustly as the First Amendment intended. I’m hoping that this year, finally, will be the year. 

But then I must also admit that I have a weakness of my own. One of my annual New Year’s Resolutions is to have optimism in the fundamental decency of the American mass media. 

And just like most of the crash diets and exercise regimens that people start every year at this time, my attempts at optimism about the mainstream press tend to fall apart in the face of reality all too soon. 

John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation manager, trade compliance trainer, and speaker. Read his book on the surprisingly numerous varieties of vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel), his biting political satires on the Biden-Harris years (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his 2024 collection of public policy essays, Current Events and the Issues of Our Age, all available in eBook or paperback, exclusively on Amazon.

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