CBS boss fuels left-wing uproar amid report she urged staff to probe alleged El-Sayed, Muslim Brotherhood ties
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is taking heat from the left yet again, this time over a report urging her staff to probe Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's potential ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.Semafor reported Sunday that Weiss "personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to El-Sayed’s supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood."The report cited two anonymous CBS News staffers who were aggrieved by Weiss' directive.Anonymous CBS News staffers complaining about their boss to liberal media outlets has become commonplace in the media industry. CONTROVERSY OVER ABDUL EL-SAYED'S FAMILY TIES TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IGNORED, DOWNPLAYED BY LIBERAL MEDIACBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly urged staff to investigate Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
(Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press; Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham believes disgruntled CBS News employees constantly offering anonymous quotes to liberal publications in an effort to smear Weiss "helps reinforce" the longstanding bias toward the left. "She’s making them do difficult things," Graham told Fox News Digital. "Can we look into whether Abdul El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, like his family says they do? How dare you," Graham quipped."You’re not supposed to do stories that might make Democrats look bad."While Weiss’ defenders have suggested staffers are essentially irked that she asked them to do journalism, progressives lashed out against Weiss over the latest report."A rightwing, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim troll who has zero qualifications to be running national TV network is in fact running a national TV network and trying to get it to behave like a rightwing, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim troll," far-left Zeteo founder and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan reacted on X."No self-respecting journali...