{"id":12119,"date":"2026-07-21T02:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=12119"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:15:39","slug":"abdul-el-sayed-fumes-about-his-cnn-interviews-during-a-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=12119","title":{"rendered":"Abdul El-Sayed Fumes About His CNN Interviews During a Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5674968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5674968\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5674968\" src=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-1200x785.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP18210091868561-2048x1340.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5674968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Progressive Michigan U.S. Senate candidate <strong>Abdul El-Sayed<\/strong> took a swipe at CNN during a rally over the weekend, saying that appearing on the network recently has felt like a \u201cnon-consensual colonoscopy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, you know, I go on CNN every once in a while, and I get a non-consensual colonoscopy. And then all they ever ask me about is another country,\u201d El Sayed said to a crowd of supporters in Grand Rapids, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And then they\u2019re like, \u201cAll he\u2019s ever talking about is another country?\u201d No! I just want everybody to understand that there\u2019s an opportunity cost to the money being sent over there, and that is what we could have over here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The jab was quickly clipped and went viral on social media with even the RNC\u2019s research account sharing it.<\/p>\n<p>El Sayed has tussled with CNN anchors in his recent interviews, including with <strong>Jake Tapper<\/strong> on Sunday. Tapper asked El Sayed about a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/there-are-a-lot-of-people-in-dearborn-who-are-sad-democratic-senate-hopeful-abdul-el-sayed-said-he-needed-to-stay-silent-on-khamenei-killing-because-many-of-michigans-muslim-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording<\/a> from earlier in the summer in which El Sayed warned \u201cthere are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad\u201d the Ayatollah had been killed by an Israeli airstrike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that quote was interesting, because the ayatollah has killed tens of thousands of innocent Iranians, not to mention the proxies that Iran has funded that have killed innocent civilians all over the Middle East,\u201d Tapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/michigan-dem-el-sayed-dodges-when-jake-tapper-confronts-him-about-saying-people-were-sad-over-the-death-of-the-ayatollah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cWhy were you worried about offending people who support the ayatollah?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake, on a day where we\u2019re mourning the loss of two more service members in a war we never should have fought, I think all of us should step back and ask in Michigan \u2014 frankly everyone in America \u2014 that this president, backed by a prime minister of a foreign government, took us to a war we had no business fighting in,\u201d El Sayed replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yeah, I didn\u2019t want to comment on it then, because it\u2019s a ridiculous pretext. And now you\u2019re asking about the ayatollah, who\u2019s dead, by the way, and you\u2019re not asking me about the service members who died,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip above.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP Photo\/Paul Sancya) Progressive Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed took a swipe at CNN during a rally over the weekend, saying that appearing on the network recently has felt like a \u201cnon-consensual colonoscopy.\u201d \u201cNow, you know, I go on CNN every once in a while, and I get a non-consensual colonoscopy. 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