Posted on 08/11/2026 7:03:19 PM PDT by Libloather
A CNN panel exploded in a heated clash Monday night after Dems accused Republicans of launching an “anti-Muslim” attack on Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed by running an ad campaign using his full name.
During “CNN NewsNight” with guest host Jon Berman, the panel discussed Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) defense of an ad campaign that blasts El-Sayed as a dangerous candidate and uses the controversial lefty pol’s full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
In an interview clip, the senator was asked whether the ads are an attempt to tell voters “hint, hint…he’s Muslim.” Scott responded, “Not at all … I can get called Timothy Eugene. I get called that all the time.”
After replaying the clip on CNN, Berman jibed, “I have never heard Tim Scott referred to as Timothy Eugene in a campaign ad.”
Niall Stanage, an Irish journalist and associate editor at The Hill, jumped in with a furious take on the GOP ad campaign.
“I don’t know how [Scott] says that with a straight face, honestly,” Stanage said. “The idea that using Tim Scott’s full name, unabbreviated, is equivalent to using Abdul El-Sayed’s full name is just ludicrous. It is obviously in El-Sayed’s case an appeal to anti-Muslim, anti-Arab sentiment.”
Jason Rantz, a conservative radio host, sarcastically sniped: “People didn’t know he was Muslim until they said his full name.”
Stanage plowed on, jumping off a comment from fellow panelist Yemisi Egbewole, a Dem strategist who brought up the fact that El-Sayed – a far-left candidate who has called for “Medicare for all” and ending ICE – will have to work to win over moderate voters.
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Yeah, because “Abdul El-Sayed” isn’t too much of a clue, I guess?
Shut that traitorous media outlet down now! Close it, investigate and find all of the employees that are pushing the pro-islam agenda and deport them (citizens included) period. Then, bulldoze the building.
Yes, I too remember when outrage was caused when 0bama’s middle name was used, and not just by the leftist MSM, but by a wide swath of supposed ‘Republicans’.
Like *el-sayed* isn't enough to tell us already???
Honestly, democrats/leftists are far more stupid than they think (or wish) we are.
More proof that:
The only good islamist is a dead islamist...
It is our duty as citizens to help, with prejudice, everyone be as good as possible...
If we are unwilling to do our duty, maybe we should not complain...
The Democrat controlled
Edia wants to.help the Muslim counist Democrat hide who he is. They are useful idiots and as always our enemy
Why do I feel that if the Republicans had NOT used his full name, the Democrats would have said that was racist, too?
...or he knows full well what having it means and that his allegiance is not to United States citizens... and that CNN and the Propaganda Media are covering for him, at his coordination.
Extend it to the Presidents that we all know.
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard Milhous Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
James Earl Carter
Ronald Wilson Reagan
George Herbert Walker Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
George Walker Bush
Barack Hussein Obama
Donald John Trump
Look at all the people in politics who are known by their full name. Why is it "phobic" to continue doing it now when we've been doing it since John Quincy Adams?
-PJ
Basket of deplorables
Maybe he can just come out with a simple statement saying no sharia law and hold up a cartoon of mohammed looking in a mirror saying blasphemy. Then we’ll know he’s not only a muslim, but one who’s ok with lying to infidels.
I never heard that about or from Kramer. But he had Fauci figured out way back during the AIDS crisis over 40 yrs ago, Unfortunately he allowed himself to be seduced by Fauci and the propagandizers he had behind him.
Ha! They pulled the exact same crap on me when I made sure to say the entire name for Barak HUSSEIN Obama......pretending as if saying the man’s actual name were an insult and therefore against the rules of the forum.
Barak HUSSEIN Obama,,,,,,Me, too.
That was a directive from the McCain Campaign HQ.
I was County Chairman at the time and one of McCain’s proxies (”a war hero”) repudiated me from the podium for saying Hussien in his introduction.
I stood up. Took the mic back. Said in this county we did not hide Obama’s full name.....and if he didn’t like it there was the door. The crowd roared.
He backpedaled, gave his speech about “John” and winced when every speaker said Barack Hussein Obama, emphasizing “Hussein”
McCain was a moral coward, an elitist and held us in contempt. His treatment and disparagement of Palin was horrendous.
“.... to exploit the public’s unfamiliarity and biases regarding Mormonism...”
Or their familiarity with it.
Then to falsely equivocate Romney’s Mormonism with JFK’s Catholicism......gag me.
Mormon demon/Masonic inspired worship is not Catholic Christianity.
But that is just my opinion and I do not feel strongly about it.
My reply would be..Yes I am emphasizing his name for his Islamic connections, and you would diminish the candidate’s Islamic faith by covering up his name for political reasons!...So who is the real hypocrite here?
Uh-Oh....my McCain rant has been triggered.....lest we forget....
Treatment of first wife Carol McCain:
While John McCain was imprisoned in Vietnam (1967-1973), his wife Carol was in a near-fatal car accident on Christmas Eve 1969.
She underwent 23 operations, was left four inches shorter, disfigured, and with permanent mobility challenges. She had been a former model.
Ross Perot—who paid Carol’s medical bills—later said: “After he came home, he walked with a limp, she walked with a limp.
So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy Hensley] and the rest is history.”
McCain returned in 1973 to find his wife disabled. By the late 1970s, he was pursuing an extramarital affair with Cindy Hensley, an heiress 18 years his junior whose family owned a large beer distributorship. He divorced Carol in 1980 and married Cindy five weeks later.
Hensley money is how he bought his seat in the Senate.
More memories of his RINO perfidity?
Keating Five...goggle it.
Gang of Eight with
Republicans
John McCain (Arizona)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Marco Rubio (Florida) Do not trust him.
Jeff Flake (Arizona)
Democrats
Chuck Schumer (New York)
Dick Durbin (Illinois)
Bob Menendez (New Jersey)
Michael Bennet (Colorado)
This group drafted the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S. 744). The bill passed the Senate 68–32 but was never taken up by the House and died at the end of the 113th Congress.
Gen-Z says ... who is Richard Milhouse Nixon?
Thanks for the reminder. The “hero” was a pig.
Bill Cutting ham did it in Cincinnati and McCain told him not to.
F’n jerk.
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