'Hope your beeper doesn't go off': CNN bans right-wing guest over 'vile attack' on Mehdi Hasan
'Hope your beeper doesn't go off': CNN bans right-wing guest over 'vile attack' on Mehdi Hasan
A CNN panelist was removed from Abby Phillip's show after making a controversial remark to pro-Palestine journalist Mehdi Hasan.
A right-wing panelist was removed from CNN anchor Abby Phillip's show on Monday after a "vile attack" he made against journalist and political commentator Mehdi Hasan on the show.
Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky, founder of the anti-critical race theory the 1776 Commission, told Hassan: "I hope your beeper doesn't go off" during a discussion on the rhetoric from former President Donald Trump's New York City rally on Sunday.
"Did you just say I should die?" Hasan asked in apparent disbelief. "Did you just say I should be killed on live TV?"
"No, I did not say that," Girdusky responds.
"You said you hope my beeper doesn’t go off," Hasan pointed out.
Girdusky asked Hasan if he supported the Palestinian armed group Hamas, to which Hasan responded that he supported Palestinians.
Hassan then said: "This is America in 2024.. [...] Forget the racism. It's I should die."
Ah, the classic, "It was just a joke!" Now, he gets to return to his right-wing safe spaces, censored by the left because they're too sensitive.
I'm not understanding how the beeper not going off means he'd die.
Also from the article if you missed it last month:
Last month, hundreds of pagers reportedly held by suspected Hezbollah members across Lebanon exploded in an attack widely believed to have been carried out by Israel. At least 37 people were killed, including two children and medics, with thousands more injured.
Israel intercepted a bunch of pagers and filled them with explosives and then sent out a mass page that killed a bunch of people including kids.