CBS News hacks explode as Bari Weiss tells them to actually report on Abdul El-Sayeds lies

There’s a lot of smoke billowing above Abdul El-Sayed’s head — yet some CBS News staffers are furious their boss wants them to check for fire.This week’s dust-up over Michigan Democrats’ US Senate candidate is emblematic of the network’s last year of melodrama, as Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss keeps urging her colleagues to do journalism and they, in turn, keep running to their peers to cry about it.The malcontents channeled their latest outburst through Semafor’s Max Tani, who on Sunday submitted a scornful dispatch complaining that Weiss “has personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to El-Sayed’s supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood.”Control of the Senate, he charged, “could come down to how much the news media chooses to focus ..

.on a tweet sent years ago by the younger half-sister” of El-Sayed.Tani transcribed one staffer’s catty comment that Weiss “seems more suited to editing at publications like City Journal, The Free Press or The [Washington] Free Beacon.”But the anonymous coward’s cheap shot and Tani’s dutiful parroting of their gripes are actually indictments of their own journalistic habits and judgment.To say that the proof of El-Sayed’s ties to the notorious Islamist group consists of just one tweet from his half-sister is either to willfully mislead one’s audience or to betray one’s own ignorance.Either way, it’s malpractice.In 2012, El-Sayed himself signed a letter urging Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed president of Egypt at the time, to use new authorities he had bestowed upon himself to punish his political foes.Pro-democracy activists in the country described Morsi’s power grab as “absolute presidential tyranny,” “a horrifying coup,” “a complete assassination of the democratic transition” and “autocratic.”But where others saw an appalling crackdown on dissent, El-Sayed saw opportunity.“We, leaders of the Egyptian commu...