{"id":689208,"date":"2026-10-19T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689208"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:06:08","slug":"bari-weiss-reportedly-pours-cbs-resources-into-probing-abdul-el-sayeds-alleged-muslim-brotherhood-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689208","title":{"rendered":"Bari Weiss reportedly pours CBS resources into probing Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bari Weiss isn\u2019t messing around, according to a Semafor report on CBS News\u2019 coverage of Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n

The outlet reveals<\/a> that several CBS staffers spoke with them about how they are looking into potential familial links between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood, which could be a connection that could impact his chances in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2012, Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, described \u2018an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early \u201970s.\u2019 Republicans and members of the media have since pressed El-Sayed, an American of Egyptian descent, to answer whether he has ties to the Islamist movement, which was founded in Egypt and whose offshoots include US-designated terrorist groups,\u201d the report explains. \u201cThe subject is of particular interest at CBS News, where Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has repeatedly encouraged the network\u2019s journalists to dedicate serious resources to finding a potential link.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent weeks, Weiss has personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to El-Sayed\u2019s supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood, and was directly involved in a controversial story about his previous posts comparing the COVID-19 death toll to 9\/11,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cBari\u2019s ideas routinely come from social media influencers or from opposition research that\u2019s been placed in conservative outlets, and those stories usually leave out important context and facts,\u201d one staffer said while speaking to Semafor. \u201cShe seems more suited to editing at publications like City Journal, The Free Press, or The [Washington] Free Beacon, which take a clear side on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and match her views.\u201d<\/p>\n

A CBS spokesperson issued a statement to Mediaite defending the outlet\u2019s coverage:<\/p>\n

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CBS News has been delivering best-in-class breaking news and exclusive, impactful reporting on immigration, Cornell, the Iran War, the Russia-Ukraine war, and much more.<\/p>\n

Our Middle East reporting and coverage of the midterms has been just as rigorous. We\u2019ll let our journalism \u2013 not baseless accusations \u2013 speak for itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Speaking to MSNOW\u2019s Ali Velshi on Saturday, the Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan dismissed the accusations without outright denying them.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, at the end of the day, the whole reason this question is being asked is to insinuate that somehow I have dual loyalties,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I also know that I tread a long history of this: when John F. Kennedy ran for president, he was asked about whether or not his allegiance would be to the Constitution or to the pope and the Vatican\u2026 and he had to remind people he was not running to be the first Catholic president; he was running to be the next president of the United States. I\u2019m not running to be the first anything \u2014 I\u2019m running to be the next senator from my state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a crazy thing to assume that somehow I\u2019d have dual loyalties, as somebody who is avidly running to protect the right to choose, who\u2019s running to protect LGBTQ rights, who\u2019s running to protect religious freedom, and who\u2019s running to protect the rights of people who choose not to pray,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Bari Weiss isn\u2019t messing around, according to a Semafor report on CBS News\u2019 coverage of Abdul El-Sayed. The outlet reveals that several CBS staffers spoke with them about how they are looking into potential familial links between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood, which could be a connection that could impact his chances in November. \u201cIn… Continue reading Bari Weiss reportedly pours CBS resources into probing Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}