CBS News correspondent apologizes, deletes post praising heckler who questioned El-Sayed on Muslim Brotherhood

A CBS News correspondent apologized and deleted a post praising a heckler who questioned whether left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has an allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood. Jan Crawford, chief legal correspondent at CBS News and a frequent contributor to the network’s morning and evening news shows, wrote Sunday: “Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall.I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards.

I apologize.”In the since-deleted post, Crawford lauded a man known as “Tommy” who asked El-Sayed to denounce the terror-designated Islamist group.“Tommy, thank you.I had to watch this twice to catch Dr.

Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond ‘yeah absolutely’ response,” she wrote above a re-post of the viral video. “His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self own [sic] most ppl [sic] only dream about triggering.Congrats.”During the town hall, Tommy asked El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood.

El-Sayed’s opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, a former House Intelligence Committee chairman and ex-FBI special agent, has tried to link the lefty candidate to the radical group.“Sure.

Yeah, absolutely,” El-Sayed replied to Tommy’s question – before going on a nearly five-minute screed against the line of questioning. “Why are you asking the question?” El-Sayed asked Tommy. “Well, because they’re a terrorist group,” Tommy responded.“But what are you implying?” El-Sayed pressed.“Do you assume that I wouldn’t?”Tommy said, “Yes…because I have not heard you disavow them yet.” “You’re asking the question because implicitly you assume that I’ll have dual loyalties, right?” El-Sayed replied.

“You assume, Tommy, that because I am Muslim, that somehow I would have some allegiance to something that is not our Constitution.” El-Sayed compared his situation to John F.Kennedy, the first Cathol...