CNN Bans Conservative Writer After ‘Beeper’ Comment to Muslim Commentator

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    NEW YORK (AP) — CNN has banned conservative writer Ryan Gidursky from the network following a contentious on-air exchange where he told panelist Mehdi Hasan that “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”

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    “Did you just say I should die?” Hasan said, responding to Gidursky’s apparent reference to September’s attack where pagers used by hundreds of Hezbollah members in Lebanon and Syria exploded simultaneously. The attack was widely believed to be carried out by Israel.

    Hasan and Gidursky were on a panel on “News Night” Monday night, talking about Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, where speakers made a variety of racist comments and referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” The panel discussion devolved into back-and-forth bickering after Gidursky said to Hasan, a commentator and founder of the media company Zeteo, that “you’ve been called an anti-Semite more than anyone else at this table.”

    Host Abby Phillip said that Gidursky’s beeper comment was “completely out of pocket” and he apologized. But after a commercial break, he was gone.

    Philip apologized to Hasan and to viewers. She said Gidursky, author of the book “They’re Not Listening: How the Elites Created the National Populist Revolution,” had crossed a line.

    CNN was having a heated discussion about the Trump rally, where the racist and other demeaning language was a sign of how tensions are coming to a boil with only a week to go until a highly contested and contentious Election Day that reflects the nation’s political and cultural fissures.


    Despite that fragmentation, Phillip said that “we can have conversations about what is happening in this country without resorting to the lowest … kind of discourse.”

    CNN, saying there is “zero room for racism or bigotry at CNN or on our air,” said that Gidursky would not be allowed back on the network.

    Gidursky responded in a post on X: “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi” but apparently can’t “if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”

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    Ari
    Ari
    8 days ago

    Lol lmaseh it was a good line. And no, the joke wasn’t that that dummy Hasan should die. It was that Hasan is Hezbollah.

    Yitz
    Yitz
    8 days ago

    But it’s ok to shoot an orthodox Jewish person on the way to Shul and NOT CHARGE A MUSLIM WITH A HATE CRIME

    Chana
    Chana
    8 days ago

    Lies lies and more lies. Everyone heard him say he hopes his beeper DOESN’T go off. This man should be reinstated. Disgusting!!!!

    Enough
    Enough
    8 days ago

    But they kept an anti semitic moslem that calls for death of Jews. Why anyone watch’s that rag is beyond me

    Yid
    Yid
    8 days ago

    So Medi Hassan can call Ryan Gidursky a Nazi, but if Ryan Gidursky responds that Medi Hassan is Hezbollah (which is kind of true) he gets banned. Leftist logic.

    See
    See
    8 days ago

    On CNN you can only say Trump is Hitler

    Merrick Garland is a fraud
    Merrick Garland is a fraud
    8 days ago

    So much for free speech.

    daas totah
    daas totah
    8 days ago

    he should not have been apologized

    Yid
    Yid
    7 days ago

    I am personally offended by the insinuation that Mhedi Hassan is one of those low level beeper guys. The big boys in Hezbollah didn’t have those, and Medhi is pretty high up there.

    Yid
    Yid
    7 days ago

    I am personally offended by the insinuation that Mhedi Hassan is one of those low level beeper guys. High ranking officials like Mehdi have better equipment than that.

    Mig
    Mig
    8 days ago

    The guy is a schmuck for making such a violent comment. CNN did the right thing.