CBS News faced heat from the far-left Monday over a report about past comments Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed made about 9/11 ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack."As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept.11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S.
Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack," CBS News wrote Monday.The report cited El-Sayed's deleted social media posts, including some from 2020 comparing the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 to the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic.Another post from Sept.
11, 2021, first uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, read, "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith.Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."UNEARTHED EL-SAYED ESSAY DRAWS EXPLOSIVE TRUMP-BIN LADEN PARALLEL: ‘RECRUITED, RADICALIZED AND REASSURED’CBS News published a report about deleted 9/11 posts written by Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
(Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)However, many of El-Sayed's supporters and other liberal critics expressed outrage linking El-Sayed to the forthcoming 9/11 anniversary."What an insane headline," far-left commentator Hasan Piker reacted on X."This is why the [new Paramount owner David Ellison] bought CBS and put Bari Weiss in charge."Bari Weiss was tapped by Ellison to become the network's editor-in-chief last fall as part of Paramount's multimillion-dollar acquisition of her outlet The Free Press."Hi @CBS @CBSNews @bariweiss do you think it's super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic to do a tweet about the potential first ever Muslim Democratic senator which begins by referencing 9/11?" Zeteo founder and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan asked.Far-left critics invoked the app...