A cable news discussion on “CNN Newsnight With Abby Phillip” on Monday night took a shocking turn when conservative panelist Ryan Girdusky attacked journalist Mehdi Hasan, leading to the former getting banned from the network.
During a discussion about Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, Girdusky told Hasan “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off,” referencing the recent Israeli attacks against members of the terrorist group Hezbollah in which explosives were detonated in pagers. The comment came after Hasan said that he is a “supporter of the Palestinians.”
Hasan, a journalist who is Muslim and the founder and editor-in-chief of Zeteo News, was shocked by the statement, asking, “Did you just say I should die?”
