You can't make this up. A young YouTube host knocks on doors in Minneapolis and discovers that there are no day-care centers behind the sign It's the kind of stuff that wins Pulitzer Prizes, or so it used to be. Imagine if a liberal YouTube host had knocked on an anti-abortion counseling center only to discover that it was really a recruitment office for white supremacists. I think that there would be a different reaction from the usual, folks.

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Not poor Nick. He is already being accused of doing it for money or targeting Somalians because they are black. The race card is alive and well -- and at the same time, confirmation that Nick is over the target.

So why is Nick the target of so many mainstream journalists. Let me share this from Tim O'Brien:

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Our own Eric Florack captured the essence of what Shirley accomplished just a few days ago: 

This is most likely the single biggest story ever covered by an independent journalist. In one video alone, Nick Shirley has exposed over $100 million in fraud. I suspect he's merely scratched the surface on the story.

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Keep in mind, this is right in the backyard of the big paper in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Star Tribune, a paper with far more in the way of resources to lean on than Mr. Shirley could ever hope to field. They can’t be bothered. Or perhaps they're shielding us from something. As you can imagine (and I suspect some viewers can see) the video has had over 100 million views so far. You can imagine why. Nobody, including the Tribune, is covering the story well enough.

Eric is right. The legacy media couldn’t be bothered, that is, until Shirley’s discoveries spurred on more investigations in Minnesota and elsewhere, and a pattern has emerged. There is a ton of corruption in the Somali-American communities, and we’re paying for it, as PJ Media's Victoria Taft revealed: 

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In the state of Washington, one internet sleuth began going through the grants and found 539 Somali daycare centers. Some of these centers are in people's homes. Many of these taxpayer-subsidized centers do not list an address.

So, how does the legacy media respond to all of this? Does it wake up and start covering the alleged fraud and corruption, or does it go after the journalistic whistleblower?

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Yes, why the whistleblower? I thought that they loved whistleblowers? They used to be heroes when one was whistling against a GOP president.

So what's going on? Nick had the idea of knocking on doors and blowing open a scandal. Unfortunately, this scandal, like the Russia hoax, just confirmed that many journalists were not doing their job.

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Nick did his job and he is the problem? Sorry -- he is not.

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