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Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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It's terrible TV, but it gets attention - remember Howard Stern on radio? Jerry Springer? Housewives of [anywhere]? People got used to this as entertainment. Disgusting ragebait - the culture wars are just the latest version. And yes, it's deplorable, as are the people who find it fulfilling.

Every time they come for him like this, he has the same answer, and he is right. Which Michigandersrs are focused more on Twitchch streamer than the fact that Diesel isis at the highest price it has EVER BEEN.

Context is everything here, and CBS being the source for the repeated inquiry is a big factor in judging it as bad behavior. To my knowledge the question has been asked and answered in other venues but CBS wants their pound of flesh to appease Weiss and shift narratives. Don't play into it.

He did sneak in a mild diss of Piker in a later question after mentioning Watters. He appeared with both of those. He said it on his terms not hers. He handled the entire interview very well.

His voice is exactly the one that needs to be heard right now. Refreshing and very encouraging that he could achieve escape velocity - and define and distinguish the platform all of America needs: healthcare, corp $ out of elections, ending gmanding, tax =izing, due process on the short list

Jews are creating their own antisemitic problems. They forgot how the nazis treated and blamed them for all their problems and now the children of those jews are doing it to ALL MUSLIMS. They are as disgusting to Muslims as the nazis were to Jews.

I have to say, I dont give a rats ass about any Jewish voter who cares about a twitch streamer. Let's face it, these a people who couldn't get a job IRL. They're disconnected from reality.

No one ever heard about Hassan Piker till they all started piling on Democratic Candidates. Why didn't they and still don't about all the white nationalist podcasters. OR even Charlie Kirk who they canonized.

You can totally tell that question was a total insertion by certain people. A specific editor in chief perhaps. And no it's not considered a "trope" to suggest some people have unchecked power in mainstream media when they make it so obvious.

Those ready to throw Talarico under the bus because you think he slipped up on a response to transgender rights need to get a grip. There will be zero trans rights if we don’t take back Congress. Paxton & his maga posse are out to decimate us all.

Talarico is a fucking Judas to trans pluralism Don't use that feckless betrsyer of a terf's name as a argument point. Why couldn't you say AOC or Tim Walz or Ed Markley Show the more elderly visionaries some accommodation

I fear we see such responses thru lenses tinted by our own bias. I'm concerned about the MI race. (Note that it's not even one of the FIVE* flips we'll need -- it's a seat we need to hold ONto -- but we'll be needing a [longshot] six flips if Rogers pulls off a victory.

At the top of that defunct pile are CBS and CNN. Each one the talking head version of the compromised Washington Post and the oligarch-friendly New York Times. El-Sayed handled her perfectly. But I vomit over her "well, I have to repeat Republican talking points". Disgusting. Not news.

I only know he said boys shouldn’t be playing on girls teams. In high school and college. Per the SCOTUS ruling that most people agree with. Everyone who doesn’t think your thoughts is not anti trans.

Not from Michigan and I don’t care what a streamer has to say either. Also, I don’t watch the networks so I am clueless as to who she is. NAME AND SHAME these fake reporters. All of them!

By the European measure, Mamdani and Abdul El Saed are centrists or left centrists, not leftists, let alone "socialists" or communists. Hassan Piker is Russian propaganda outlet. He is like Tim Pool or Benny Johnson on the far left. We've seen him 20 times spreading lies about Ukraine.

He put that so succinctly! Democrats should follow El-Sayed’s lead and stop these “journalists” in their tracks, over and over if necessary, as it was in this train wreck of an interview. The only thing republicans have is stoking ignorant people’s baseless fears.

They are 100% blame for where we are right now. If they had done their job, gave the American people the truth of the rightwing radicalization that was happening, while they allowed Trump and his ilk to call Democrats radical for wanting basic democracy and policies that actually help people…

He should say he maybe it makes sense to those who cozy up to the regime at fancy dinners, but why is he asked to answer for a streamer who apologized, but his opponent doesn’t have to answer for the blatant bigotry of the biggest founder of the GOP, or the VP, or President—why do we accept it?

She literally admitted to the thesis of his response that it's all manufactured culture war bullshit. "Oh, Mr. Sayed sorry I just wanted to ask you about the stuff the president said was a big deal, idk about that 2.2 billion dollar stuff, sounds crazy though."

Here's a response to the gotcha questions I'd love to hear from... anybody: "I presume you are a citizen. I presume you are a taxpayer. I presume you are a voter. On the basis on any one - or even all - of those things, tell me why you think that is important."

She gives the game away when she starts her question with "There are Jewish voters in your state who are concerned..." and ends with "The Republicans are making an issue of this and I wanted to give you a chance to respond..."

I could be persuaded there was some news value when this first went down. But to still be beating this dead horse weeks later given every berserk thing that has been said by Trump and his allies in that time should be such a source of humiliation.

He was just in Brussels at the European Parliament. They have to paint him up as this big, scary monster, and do this meta commentary (asking people to condemn, and give their opinions of things they clipped from 12 years ago), instead of just asking him to clarify it (which he has). If they do that

I hate when politicians say “fight culture wars”. It’s a purposeful way to water down fights for people’s lives and rights. Also you can’t tackle economic inequality without prioritizing racism and other bigotry’s influence in politics. Rich ppl are not making y’all vote against your own interests.

I’ve always said that!!! 🎉 The first underlying issue is Trump’s/Republicans auto coup. Democracy should be protected Next is how the money is being taken, &how excellent economic opportunities are just being destroyed or wiped out -all races, all genders, all people, EVERYONE needs to buy food&fuel

Welp, he's not wrong. And it's a primary reason why I no longer pay attention to the legacy media. CNN, NYT, et al, have been normalizing the fat bastard and the bullshit from the right for decades and is a HUGE reason why we are colossally FUCKED.

We have to hammer on and on about what Trump is destroying and the cost of living non-stop every single day on social media. Everything else is noise.

Imagine being concerned about a Twitch streamer when Republican politicians are out advocating for the death of all Palestinians right next to their Palestinian colleague. How about condemnation of that? Does she condemn Ryan Girdusky? Let's ask her 17 times in a row. www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/m...

cnn.comCNN bans conservative commentator who made a racist ‘joke’ on air | CNN BusinessCNN says a right-wing commentator will not be welcomed back on air after he made a racist remark on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.”

Telling the truth is seen as an act of partisanship, calling a lie a lie is an unforgivable breach of the code of false balance, parroting nonsense without calling it nonsense is “professionalism”.

"Professionalism" is a label the ruling class grants class traitors for their conformity. i.e the police, most of the military, big corp media, and this Asian lady hedging her bet on the wrong side of history

Yes, and a long, long way from anything resembling “journalism“ The billionaire class has purchased the media, and they have a stable full of stooges doing their bidding

I DVR it so I can watch only what I want to. I only watched the AES interview & deleted the rest. I boycott 60 Minutes altogether. Weiss cannot be trusted, quite the opposite.

So you imply El Sayed is guilty of something just because he's in the same room as Piker a couple times? But Mike Rogers tailgates with Nazi sympathizers and no one utters a word? MAGA can bait AES all day and he's not going to take the bait.

I didn't imply it. I said that Hassan is Moscow's prostitution who is promoting various "third party" candidates — spoilers to help Trump win. Here Hassan is attaching himself to El Saed because Moscow told him so, to discredit El Saed. I consider El Saed to be central left, not a leftist even.

Yes. Abdul knows the game: do not just respond to all these silly questions about such and such: always pivot to REAL issues, and there are a billion to choose from: ICE, affordability, Iran war, corruption, attack on 1st amendment etc

Exactly. Democrats need to stop addressing every issue on terms the Republicans define. They deliberately craft the language to ensure Democrats lose the argument. People like Frank Luntz have built careers on this very thing.

This is the third time Weijia has asked Abdul El-Sayed about an antisemitic and islamist Hezbollah supporting Twitch streamer whom Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with and can't distance himself from.

Piker is none of those things. These accusations are just ridiculous. Moreover, El-Sayed shouldn't feel the need to distance himself, especially not now that the GOP has almost literally put a target on Piker. That kind of capitulation frankly would sink El-Sayed's chances with the youth vote.

My opinion? It’s going to be a bigger Blue Wave than anyone is expecting. The media knows that but is doing everything they can to make it seem competitive

By the European measure, Mamdani and Abdul El Saed are centrists or left centrists, not leftists, let alone "socialists" or communists. Hassan Piker is Russian propaganda outlet. He is like Tim Pool or Benny Johnson on the far left. We've seen him 20 times spreading lies about Ukraine.

Later in the interview El Sayed mentioned that he went on Watters show & the streamers’. Seemed to me he snuck in a mild diss of Piker without giving the twit interviewing him the chance to go after that issue AGAIN.

It's a minimization by not calling Piker's name, but it's not a diss. Certainly Piker doesn't take it that way. He's said El-Sayed's media strategy on this controversy (other than his big misstep to respond to the out-of-context clip in the first place) has been spot-on.

You could also ask, Why doesn't CBS bring Piker on and hold him accountable for his own rhetoric? (Answer: because CBS is not going to give national air time to California podcasters on Twitch, for whom 95% of the voting pop. has never heard of. 1/2

I'm sure he could do that; he chooses not to fight useless culture wars that are intended and used as a distraction from real issue; but to focus on those issues, and meet the needs of Michiganders. "Piker" isn't worth his time. He has more important things to deal with.

No because disowning people validates the original gotcha bs. It’s about not playing by their bad faith set up, which is to focus on a fake scandal and by calling it out he can bring it back to a real issue in this case trump. Besides the streamer isnt 100% full of shit & he want his audience vote

Yes, but politics are politics. Only the right are allowed to be extreme and make declarations without a hint of regret. The Dems are always feckless and weak because they need to cater to centrists like a bunch of idiots, despite the left/progressives being so strong now.

This is what happens when billionaire tech bros and their children takeover media networks. Shame on these feckless reporters who do the Ellison’s bidding.

Facts and Intelligence always ALWAYS obliterates snowflake pedo puppy propaganda ‼️‼️‼️‼️…. ALWAYS ‼️‼️‼️

Let's flesh out that 2.2 Billion dollars Trump made in his first year of this term. $2.2 Billion divided by 365 Days (one year) = $6,027,397 Imagine having someone give you over $6 Million dollars PER DAY, over the course of one year. Most all of us will NEVER see $6 Million in a lifetime.

Boom! 💥 The pathetic Republicans have allowed our Country to Go to Hell under DonaldTrump awful policies! Let’s talk about that!!! MSM is a joke!

This is good but it needs to be called out MORE, and harder. “Why are you repeating maga talking points as part of your network coverage”? “You don’t do that for Democrats so why the double standard”? “This is why the majority of Americans have lost faith in corporate media”.

Weijia “ Republicans say it so I need to ask about it” tells you all you need to know. She was a decent reporter once upon a time in local DC news. Then she sold out like most of them do.

If Hasan just shut up and went away for a month it would really help the candidates he supposedly supports. He knows he is a divisive element but making content is more important than the country for him, never forget Hasan encouraged people not to vote

Not only that, but his Twitch stream isn't a hobby of his. It's how he makes a living. He mentioned this himself. Who else gets told just to stop working for 2-3 months? It's an unreasonable ask. That's just off the top. Emboldening the opposition is definitely equal in rank.

That’s repubs only game. They throw lies, deflections and shit against the wall and hope the media will talk about it, instead of talking about real issues. Every dem should be pointing this out and asking why Repubs won’t talk about real issues. The answer is that Repubs have nothing else to say.

Weijia: Republicans have made it a big attack on you. So, I wanted to give you… Weijia-what you are really doing is carrying water for a party that doesn’t have a platform without culture wars. Cultures also serve the media because they are dumb, cheap and easy, no journalistic effort required.

Omfg why is the for profit media always doing the bidding for Republicans nonsense culture wars it’s not just FOX it’s all of them, ffs heis so right good for El-Sayed for calling her out

Republicans get to be lawless, Democrats have to be flawless. The media bias is obvious once you see it. Unfortunately, not enough people are seeing it. They lionized Charlie Kirk, their caucus includes white nationalists nazis. Yet nobody ever calls Republicans out on their connections to them.

This is spot on. I didn't hear Talarico's comments. But I do know Dems can flip (see: Obama on gay marriage). But first they have to win elections. Meanwhile, were know where EVERY Republican stands. So donate to Talarico!

I just want to know why he won't take a polygraph to ask him if he's the 9/11 mastermind. If he's innocent, he wouldn't refuse. And worse, what if America is under nuclear attack when he's on his prayer rug for 5 A.M. prayers and can't be interrupted?

They're "playing games" with our lives, our ability to have health care, and afford groceries. He's right, THE PEOPLE need to take back control of the narrative. The media are playing right into the Republicans hands. They do not deserve our respect.

“I understand, Dr., but Republicans have made it…” - ever the dutiful stenographer, amplifying the irrelevant red herrings tossed out by Republicans to distract from their failures.

This is exactly why our country is being destroyed. Our media has completely failed the people of this nation. Network news is no longer beneficial to the citizenry and it's become a tool of special interest, big corpo and propaganda & misinformation. SHAME on @weijiajiang.bsky.social. Pathetic!!

I want the Democrats to win the Michigan seat, but is it unreasonable to watch Abdul El Sayed campaigning with a man who said the U.S. deserved 9/11, or that rape is acceptable if it's wealthy men raping wealthy women and wonder if we can take him seriously?

Miller, like Hegseth, Trump, many more need to be exposed as dittoheads. Miller said Limbaugh's book- 'way things ought to be' was formative, uses Limbaugh immig lies. Hegseth repeated "pallets of cash" talk point Limbaugh popularized and Rssns amped to excuse ditching Obama Iran deal.

On March 17, 2018, Jiang married Travis Luther Lowe, an executive at Yelp and a donor to Democratic Party candidates and causes, in Palm Springs, California. Civil rights activist Jim Obergefell led the ceremony

Weijia Jiang is an American television journalist who serves as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News and president of the White House Correspondents' Association. Sorry my memory is not as good in keeping all the sketchy players straight. It's better when you say why something matters.

I beg to differ. The last thing Weijia Jiang is, is a journalist. You are no longer a journalist the moment you allow yourself to be a pawn in the Republicans mission to destroy our democracy. Jiang has clearly done exactly that. She doesn't deserve our respect.

AP headlines .." the US just used the last of its Patriot missiles to attack Iran." Mejia Wang "yeah but what about Hassan Piker? " .001% = # of maga voters who know Twitch is and who HP is.

Wejia..."Ooh Mr. President, I love your new hairstyle! It makes you look ten years younger". Trump.."It's my natural hair. The doctor says he's never seen a head of hair like mine. You are a great journalist for noticing. I'm going to tell your boss, David, right now to give you a raise & promotion"

Journalism used to be about confronting power. Now, too often, it’s about sucking up to power in exchange for “access”. Every time Trump insults a reporter and the rest don’t explode in anger, I die a little inside.

She's at CBS...does anyone even care anymore? The right never cared and never will no matter how much you dress it up to look like FOX and the left feels betrayed at the dishonesty and have left the relationship.

Later in the interview El Sayed said he’d gone on Watters’ show & the Twitch streamer’s. Sounded to me like he was grouping them together. He inserted that into a longer answer. Jiang didn’t get the opportunity to go after that issue again.

CBs was sold. By the European measure, Mamdani, Abdul El Saed are centrists-left centrists, not leftists, let alone "socialists" or communists. Hassan Piker is Russian propaganda outlet. He is like Tim Pool or Benny Johnson on the far left. We've seen him 20 times spreading lies about Ukraine.

I'm willing to bet MOST PEOPLE who are not politically aware still cling to the fictitious "Apprentice" portrait of Trump as a "fabulously successful billionaire businessman" (WITH SIX BANKRUPTCIES) who made the $2.2 B ILLEGALLY and UNETHICALLY by insider trading & profiting from the presidency.

They are friends. They hang out. They work out together. He’s appeared on pikers show. He campaigned with him during the primary. He’s “distanced” himself meaning he doesn’t do that anymore, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are friends. www.out.com/politics/abd...

out.comMeet Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the handsome politician breaking a sweat on the campaign trailThe Democratic nominee in Michigan is showing strength as he fights to become a U.S. senator.

Beat those motherfuckers up. Everyone running for office should beat the press up like a bitch. Use a big stick. On every fucking program. The one thing every American agrees on, they're useless motherfuckers. Call them out on their blatant double standard. Shove it in their face.

Name those Jewish voters. are they in the room with you now? Did they have tears in their eyes and say Madam… such MAGA BS. Vote Abdul El-Sayed

I feel bad for this man being forced to constantly defend the fact that he has a very Muslim sounding name. If his name was George Smith people would not be so quick to question his religion. In reality no one has any business sticking their nose into his religious beliefs.

They focus on organized religion because it’s worked to manipulate the masses for centuries and it’s the easiest grift as religions require blind faith and total indoctrination. We must return to separation of RELIGION and state. Politicians must SERVE the people, protect the planet. Period.