When right-wing billionaire, and Donald Trump pal, David Ellison bought Paramount he swore that he wouldn’t interfere with the news programming on CBS which Paramount owns. Then he immediately put the far right Bari Weiss in charge of the whole news operation. He knew how Weiss would run things, so that his interference wouldn’t be necessary.

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And Ellison was right. This new regime at CBS wasted no time slanting the news to align with Trump’s MAGA agenda. Which brought about numerous resignations and firings that tilted the network farther to the right, including on iconic programs like 60 Minutes. This had the predictable result of triggering a stark decline in viewership. Clearly there was no intention of running a fair news enterprise, despite the hollow claims.

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Evidence of the political partisanship at CBS was displayed on Saturday following a town hall with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, candidate for the Senate in Michigan. CBS correspondent Jan Crawford posted a tweet commenting on an exchange between El-Sayed and an audience member named Tommy. The exchange included the following…

Tommy: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?
El-Sayed: Sure. Yeah. Absolutely, Why are you asking the question?
Tommy: Because I have not heard you disavow them yet. […]
El-Sayed: You’re asking the question because implicitly you assume that I’ll have dual loyalties, right? You assume that somehow I wouldn’t disavow, or that I’ll have some higher order allegiance than the Constitution.

In his response El-Sayed “Absolutely” disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood. And he also gave Tommy a lesson in the Constitution’s protections of religious freedom. But somehow that wasn’t good enough for Crawford, who tweeted…

“Tommy, thank you. I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond, ‘yeah, absolutely,’ response. His subsequent uninterrupted diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self-own is the kind ppl only dream about triggering. Congrats.”

WTF? Did anyone else have to watch it twice to hear El-Sayed’s disavowal, which he actually made two times? And how did El-Sayed’s “diatribe” (a loaded word) on the Constitution prove Tommy’s point that El-Sayed must have dual loyalties because he’s a Muslim?

Crawford’s tweet was so biased and inappropriate that even her bosses at CBS were displeased. They ordered her to delete it, which she did saying that…

“Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall. I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize.”

You have to wonder what specific “standards” Crawford was in violation of. Notice that Crawford only mentions that she deleted the video, not her biased remarks. So maybe that was what violated CBS’ standards: showing a video that made a Democrat look good.

What’s more, CBS’ standards also don’t seem include conducting any investigation of Tommy who, as it turns out, was a partisan plant. He is the son of a GOP strategist, and was a staffer for Republican Sen. Josh Hawley. And after being dressed down by El-Sayed, he abruptly left the hall. But not before refusing to disavow imposing Christian religious doctrine into American law.

For good measure, El-Sayed’s opponent, Mike Rogers, went on CNN and, despite the video evidence, denied that El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood. Even after he was told by CNN’s Dana Bash that El-Sayed did make a clear disavowal, Rogers whined, “No, that’s not true.”

The unbridled bigotry of Republicans has long been a core element of their ideology. And it’s sad to see it being adopted by a CBS correspondent. El-Sayed’s reply to Tommy went viral because it showed him as a smart, compassionate, patriot. And that ought to have been the takeaway of the reporting by Crawford and CBS. But that seems like too much to hope for in the Trump/Ellison era.

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