CBS News takes heat over report on Dem hopeful Abdul El-Sayed's now-deleted 9/11 postshttps://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-news-takes-heat-over-report-dem-hopeful-abdul-el-sayeds-now-deleted-9-11-postsCBS News faced heat from the far-left Monday over a report about past comments Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed made about 9/11 ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
"As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack," CBS News wrote Monday.
The report cited El-Sayed's deleted social media posts, including some from 2020 comparing the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 to the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. Another post from Sept. 11, 2021, first uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, read, "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."
However, many of El-Sayed's supporters and other liberal critics expressed outrage linking El-Sayed to the forthcoming 9/11 anniversary.
"What an insane headline," far-left commentator Hasan Piker reacted on X. "This is why the [new Paramount owner David Ellison] bought CBS and put Bari Weiss in charge."
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"Despicable anti-Muslim woke right garbage from the house CBS account," "The Bulwark" podcast host and MS NOW analyst Tim Miller wrote.
CBS reported ... news ... that actually happened, and it's Islamophobic and Reich-Wing. Does anyone believe NBC Skews or ABC Skews would catch flak for "reporting" a fake Trump quote un-fact-checked?
