The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman wrote Tuesday that far-left Michigan senatorial candidate — Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — threatened the Beacon with legal action after the conservative news outlet published a recording of El-Sayed saying he wouldn’t comment on the death of murderous Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei because “a lot of people in Dearborn...are sad” and thus would hurt his electoral prospects.
Earth to Brian Stelter, Oliver Darcy, Scott Nover, Brian Steinberg, and the rest of the so-called media reporting class: Where are you on this act of media intimidation?
Goodman explained the Free Beacon’s initial reporting from a day earlier:
The Free Beacon broke the news on Monday that El-Sayed told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad” about the late Iranian dictator’s death. The story was based on audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Free Beacon.
In a statement “[n]early 12 hours after the story broke,” Goodman explained, “El-Sayed released a statement calling the Free Beacon a ‘rightwing news outlet’ that ‘may have illegally and unethically obtained’ the audio recording.”
She added that the El-Sayed campaign laundered a statement through a D.C.-based lawyer to state “the ‘campaign is considering legal options against the individual’ who took the recording.”
Notably, El-Sayed also said in the recording — which was of a campaign brainstorming session — said he would pivot from the Iran war to arguing it was a decision by the “pedophile president” to distract from the Epstein files.
To see Goodman’s full story, click here.
