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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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To be fair, the only contemporary presidents whose full name was weaponized by the opposition was Bush the Elder and Obama. Relatedly, the press loved using “Dubya” and our side loved writing Klingon.
Dog whistle? Infantile? Bigoted to some extent on both sides? You bet.
But, again, that is politics. The objective is to win. Politics have been dirty for years.
The press acting now like this is some new level of outrageous is like a hooker complaining about a brothel.
On the other hand, just think how “historic” we would hear it was were he to be elected the first muslim elected to the US Senate.
These bastards always have to have it their way.
Obama was the first mulsim senator.
And the first Kenyan president.
Wrong answer!
He should be saying, "You're damn right. The voters need to know what they voting for here".
How many New Yorkers know they have a muzzie mayor? He's just presented as a "Democratic Socialist" - which is bad enough.
You're being too cute by half. Regardless of Obama's debated religion, El Sayed's "historic" status as the first Muslim Senator would be loudly bleated until the goats come home.
It's not so much the reality, it's what the media narrative is intended to set in the public consciousness and the eventual biased historical context.
You mean like:
Barak Hussain Obama???
Klinton….curse you autocorrect!
Why shouldn’t Americans not know he was Muslim? You think they are not our enemies or something? No wonder that in a fair race that Democrats will lose just about every time. They need to get on the side of TRUTH for a change.
-PJ
whatever, does it make the CNN panel less hypocritical?
Dr Abdul speaking with another physician who says she was never taught Anatomy and Physiology in medical school. Because racism. She discusses lady parts. Dr Abdul has some questions and comments.
2nd interview.
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