Here is a fact: Omar was elected by 267,703 people in Minnesota. Here is another: There are 327.2 million people in America. Omar is a first-term congresswoman, chairperson of no committee, and should matter little. That she does matter is partly attributable to her being a political exotic and partly to her gift for offensive statements. If you listen to the entirety of her remarks about the 9/11 attacks, even if you want very much to find them offensive, you will come away uncertain. The supposedly clear case dissolves under scrutiny.