MSNBC host Hallie Jackson on Thursday went easy on Rashida Tlaib while asking about fellow Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's cringe-inducing comments about 9/11. The journalist allowed Tlaib to call for civility, despite her profanity-laced tirade against Donald Trump. Jackson also skipped the Democrat’s meeting with an Israel-hating defender of Hezbollah.

Regarding Representative Omar dismissing the September 11, 2001 terror attacks as “some people did something,” the host only gently worried, “Do you think she should have rethought her words? Do you worry about the appropriateness of that?” After Tlaib blasted the criticism of Omar as racism, Jackson comforted, “It's obviously something you feel very passionate about.”

Jackson referenced Omar’s appearance on The Late Show — where host Stephen Colbert did not even bring up the 9/11 comments — and offered a rambling question that painfully strived to not offend the Democrat:

[Omar] talked about this a little bit on the Colbert show last night. She wasn’t directly asked about those 9/11 comments, but she was just asked just in general about the idea that she, as she put it, a lightning rod because she thinks where our nation is right now there are many members of the community who do have a lot of different identities, immigrants, people of color, minorities, Muslims and she embodies all of those sort of in one person, as one identity and feels that has made her a target of criticism. I want to ask you how you see that, what your reaction is to that. To be clear, it sounds like you're saying you don’t think she should have rethought her words. You think her words are being taken out of context. And you are comfortable with what she said and not the criticism she’s receiving.

The New York Post on Friday featured a front cover of the planes hitting the World Trade Center. Tlaib hypocritically called for civility: “We need to unite our country against those kinds of hateful, you know, the New York Post cover and any of the attacks I’ve seen over and over again of Sister Ilhan Omar.”

Maybe the person who screamed that she was going to “impeach the motherfucker” Trump isn’t in the best position to call for calm. But, of course, Jackson didn’t make that point. Another question the journalist could have asked: Why did Tlaib meet with a pro-Hezbollah activist who hates Israel?

Abbas Hamideh is the man who said, “Israel does not have a right to exist. The terrorist entity is illegal and has no basis to exist other than a delusional ISIS-like ideology.” Hamideh tweeted that he was “honored” to be at Tlaib's swearing in and a private dinner with the Congresswoman.

On Thursday, ABC and CBS ignored Omar’s 9/11 comments. NBC painted her as a victim.

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