CNN’s Brown Bemoans ‘Anti-Muslim Rhetoric’ to Israel-Hating, Terrorist-Backing Dem

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CNN’s The Situation Room co-host Pamela Brown sucked up Tuesday to Democratic congressman-elect Adam Hamawy (NJ), fretting he and other Muslim candidates faced “anti-Muslim rhetoric,” egged him on as the party begins what could be a parade of impeachments, and offered only mild pushback when Hamawy — who was a character witness to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind — argued the U.S. is no better or worse than Iran.

Unsurprisingly, Brown never asked Hamawy about his support of said mastermind, known as the Blind Sheikh, whom he called a “leader of the community” and saw him as a mentor.

Along with declining to fact-check him on his assertion Americans have chanted “death to Iran,” the CNN host also refused to press him on his false claims that Hamas “definitely” does not operate inside a major Gazan hospital.

Brown began by fawning over Hamawy as someone credited with saving now-Senator Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) life in Iraq as a segue into the impeachment proceedings against War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Only after a series of softballs did she actually ask whether spending time and taxpayer dollars on impeachment achieves a Democratic Party campaign promise to address cost-of-living issues (click “expand”):

BROWN: So, given the fact you’re a veteran, you have a military background, do you support this impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Hegseth?

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BROWN: He tried to make the case today that it will be him now, and then members of the military next who are carrying out these orders. What do you say to that?

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BROWN: But he tries to say that members of Congress are going to then target the troops who are on the — is that true?

HAMAWY: That’s not true at all. We’re trying to support the troops. He’s the one who’s targeting our — our service members.

BROWN: When you say that, what do you mean?

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BROWN: You mean when leadership, members of leadership that were fired, that he fired?

HAMAWY: Correct.

BROWN: Okay — how does impeaching Secretary Hegseth assist in your caucus’s goal of putting an end to the conflict in Iran and lowering prices for everyday Americans?

Like a good member of the red-green alliance, CNN made sure Hamawy was pampered with plenty of talk about Islamophobia.

“I want to just talk about the history behind you winning Abdul el-Sayed in Michigan. I mean, Muslim candidates have made historic gains this election despite anti-Muslim rhetoric on the campaign trail. What do you think about that? Do you think that this marks an end to that kind of political rhetoric,” Brown asked.

Hamawy played victim: “It’s a step in the right direction. It’s not the end. Unfortunately, there’s — there is a politics of hate and division that’s out there. We’ve shown that it’s not working, but we still have some work, some work to do.”

A white liberal from a privileged background as the daughter of a late journalist and former Democratic governor, Brown invited him to share what he’s allegedly faced (click “expand”):

BROWN: What kind of — do you get — what kind of response have you gotten since you were —

HAMAWY: I’ve gotten hate myself, and — and it’s not just me. I mean, I expect that jumping into politics, but it’s against my family, against my coworkers, against my friends. And — but, you know, hate is loud, and what we showed last Tuesday is that that’s not the majority.

BROWN: Mmmm.

HAMAWY: Americans are seeing through this — that, you know, rhetoric is really a distraction to the real issues that the American people face, and the people of New Jersey, you know, want to fix health care. They want education, they want childcare, they want, you know, our gas prices to go down. And so, their — you know, their — use of hate is just because they have nothing else to talk about.

“Aw, I’m sorry that your family and friends have gone through that. That’s unacceptable, you as well,” she replied.

Brown went immediately to the issue Muslim candidates are almost singularly obsessed with, thus proving correct what they allege to be vile stereotypes: Israel.

After two softballs allowing Hamawy to elaborate on his belief that all military aid and support for Israel’s Iron Dome should cease, Brown delivered a simple question: “Do you see Iran as the adversary and Israel as an ally to the U.S.?”

Hamawy then launched into what has become standard voicing of Jew hatred by refusing to say: “Well, now, what I see is that we are pushed into this war by Israel. It’s not helping Americans. Americans didn’t ask for it. It’s illegal, it’s immoral, and at this point, I think the United States and the Iranians want this war to end.”

Brown followed up: “Do you see Iran as the adversary?”

Hamawy defended the Islamist regime: “I see we pushed them into a fight. And so, I think we both have to step back and say, is this helping either one of us?”

Brown asked a third and fourth time, but on that fourth try, Hamawy said this: “We’ve been saying death to Iran for decades as well. And so, what we need to do is use diplomacy.”

The interview should have ground to a halt, and Brown should have demanded the New Jersey Democrat provide evidence, but she didn’t.

She instead blurted out, “They’ve killed a lot of Americans.”

Hamawy’s response was disturbing: “And we’ve killed a lot of them as well.”

Incapable of deviating based on the congressman-elect’s answers, Brown kept pushing on the “adversary line.” Hamawy’s answers didn’t change, except to hurl invective at Israel as the Middle East’s troublemaker from lasting peace (click “expand”):

BROWN: So — so, you — so, you don’t see Iran as an adversary?

HAMAWY: I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight when we have the leverage to kind of bring them to the table, and we did that during the Obama administration, and we could do that again if we use, you know, diplomacy, our leverage — are both economic, not just military power — to create friends in the region to pressure them as well. Um, and to bring peace to the region if we want to.

BROWN: So — do you see Israel as the adversary, then?

HAMAWY: I see, you know, I want America to succeed. And so, I want America to be at peace. I want America to have as many friends and allies around the world as possible, and we do that by again, exerting our diplomatic and economic power, um, to the benefit of people to make more friends rather than make more enemies, and I see that we are moving in the wrong direction. I think America today is less safe. You know, since we started the war — we are, you know, more — we’ve created more enemies. We’ve lost allies because of this, and that doesn’t make — doesn’t help anyone, including I’m not even like talking about the economic impacts that we’ve had.

BROWN: So — so basically, bottom line, you don’t want to say whether Israel is an adversary or ally, and same with Iran? 

HAMAWY: I’m saying that that doesn’t help us. We’re in the middle of a war right now that is making American lives worse. We’re putting our troops at risk. We’re creating, you know, an economic crisis that we don’t need, and so the blame game doesn’t help. So, how do we get out of this?

BROWN: Yeah. But as a member, you know, you’re — you’re going to be a representative, right — member of Congress?

HAMAWY: Right.

BROWN: I think people want to understand your views and have clarity of how you view various — various countries and whether you view the country that we’re currently at war with, whether or not you agree with the war —

HAMAWY: Yeah.

BROWN: — as a — as an adversary and whether you think it’s a worthy objective to make sure that they don’t have nuclear weapons that could be used against our allies?

HAMAWY: I think that is a worthy objective. There’s different ways we could do that. We could do that by going into war, putting our troops at risk, and creating an economic crisis, or we could do it diplomatically, like the Obama administration did. You know, I don’t agree with the Iranian government. I think it’s an authoritarian government. It’s a dictatorship. It’s not good for its people. But going toward this way is not — it’s made it actually worse. It’s made it more radical, and it’s created a crisis here at home that we didn’t need — you know.

Eventually, Brown relented. Prior to closing with his quick thoughts on whether he’d back current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as speaker, Brown wondered how he’d go about “the diplomatic route” to end the Iran war.

Ramawy again didn’t have an answer other than to demand a return to an Obama-like nuclear deal.

To see the relevant CNN transcript from November 10, click here.