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The newspaper has “mostly tried to ignore” conspiracy concept-endorsing Boebert’s antics since she was elected to Congress in 2020 mainly because “they increase minor to the public discourse,” it wrote in a stinging editorial Monday.
But the Donald Trump acolyte’s modern Islamophobic attacks on Omar — and her subsequent non-apology to her fellow congresswoman — had “crossed a line,” it said. The board was “embarrassed a Colorado representative is engaged in widening” divisions in the country.
Omar “deserved nothing shorter of a comprehensive apology” but Boebert “is evidently incapable of remorse or reflection, so as her fellow Coloradans — a lovely location of tolerance and respect, range and freedom — we will help her, the board wrote.
“We apologize to the Congresswoman and to the Muslim community for Boebert’s insensitive remarks,” it added. “Such remarks, no make a difference how innocently supposed, have no put in American discourse.”
