CNN pulled a panelist off of NewsNight with Abby Phillip this evening after he made a swipe at Mehdi Hasan, suggesting that he was aligned with terrorists.
Ryan James Girdusky, a writer and commentator, was having an argument with Hasan over the rhetoric used at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday evening at Madison Square Garden.
Hasan said that “if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop doing, stop saying,” but he was interrupted by Girdusky. He noted that Hasan was called an “anti-Semite more than anyone at this table.” “By you,” Hasan said.
Then, Girdusky denied that he had called him that. “I am in support of the Palestinians, so I am used to it,” Hasan said. “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” Girdusky replied.
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