When I posted on Keith Hakim X. Ellison-Muhammed (or whatever he is calling himself this week) in last week's "Make Room for Jihadi", his connections to CAIR and Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam and support for terrorists and cop-killers just wasn't attracting any fMSM attention. And despite the light being shone upon his history, and especially upon his habit of lying about it, by Powerline's Scott Johnson, and picked up by Let Freedom Ring and your humble & obedient & etc. and others, Ellison's troubling past just remained Ross Perot's proverbial "crazy aunt in the attic," who everyone knew about but pretended wasn't there.

One of the best short background pieces on Ellison is this from Powerline:

Ellison weirdly referred to Soliah/Olson as a "black gang member" (she is white) and thus a victim of government persecution. He described her as one of those who had been "fighting for freedom in the '60s and '70s" and called for her release. Still toeing the Nation of Islam line at the time of the speech in February 2000, he recalled "Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, [who] was prosecuted in retribution against Minister Farrakhan." He also spoke favorably of cop killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur. Shakur has been on the lam in Cuba since 1984; last year she was placed on the FBI's domestic terrorists list with a one million dollar reward for her capture.

Read it all at the link above, which also links to the only real reporting from the Star-Tribune on Ellison, by columnist Katherine Kersten.

Now, finally, the St. Paul Pioneer Press takes note that Ellison's claimed "eighteen-month involvement" with NOI and radical Islamic causes extended from before 1990 to 1998 and perhaps beyond, as Powerline updates the story. Someone in Old Media can count! Stop the presses!

BUT, Scott Johnson treads upon sacred ground by comparing Ellison's "18 months" to Sinatra's song, suggesting a parody: "It was a very long year."

Like the man said, "Be careful what you ask for."

When I was in law school
It was a very long year
It was a very long year
Booking kooks with anti-semite screeds
I saw to their needs
I dreamed the Jews' fear
It was a very long year

Now those days are gone
And I wish them away
Like ugly scars from a dagger attack
But the Strib's got my back
And I can call in CAIR
I might carry the day
And win the chair
And become an Emir
In this very long year.

Maybe Ol' Blue Eyes will come back - with Nelson Riddle and the boys - for a command performance. If anyone could do it, Frank could.

He knows people.