A woman from Connecticut tried to lecture Minnesotans on who Minnesotans are, and it wasn't received well.
Far-right political commentator Laura Ingraham, the host of the far-right Fox News program The Ingraham Angle who grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut, openly criticized U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, for the way that she talks : On Thursday’s episode of her show — which became a podcast earlier this month — Ingraham mocked the accent of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who couldn’t speak English when she came to the U.S. at the age of 12 after living in a refugee camp during Somalia’s civil war. Ingraham claimed that one of the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress “sounds like Rizzo on Grease ” and “doesn’t sound like Minnesota.” Spoiler alert...not everyone from the Upper Midwest sounds like Amy Klobuchar. I don't sound like what a lot of people would consider a typical Illinoisan, so I'm not going to criticize Omar or anyone else for the way they speak the English language. Also, for I...