Ever since he became the Democrat nominee to the U.S. Senate from Michigan, radical leftist Abdul El-Sayed has been given royal carpet treatment from the leftist media. On MS NOW's Politics Nation on Saturday, viewers witnessed one of the most egregious examples of this, as Host, The Reverend Al Sharpton ran interference for El-Sayed, avoiding any and all controversies, in what could have been mistaken for a paid campaign video.
After talking with El-Sayed about various issues, he turned to President Trump's campaign stop in South Carolina for Darlene Graham on Friday night.
SHARPTON: He seemed more interested in talking about you pushing unsubstantiated claims, trying to paint you and your family as terrorist sympathizers.
During his speech, Trump referenced reports that El-Sayed's sister, "celebrated the terrorist slaughter of babies on October 7th". He also mentioned that his mother, "worked for an organization that gave hundreds and thousands of dollars to a gentlemen named Osama bin Laden." And referencing Hasan Piker, Trump added that El-Sayed, "recently campaigned with a Communist fanatic, who says that America deserves 9-11."
But instead of playing or repeating what Trump actually said and having El-Sayed respond to it, Sharpton let his guest totally slide, by switching gears.
SHARPTON: But I want to ask you about comments from Trump's Vice President, JD Vance, from earlier this week questioning your commitment to working class people.
What the heck was that? Sharpton then played a clip of Vance from Friday in Ohio.
VANCE: He once argued not too long ago that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy. I'd love to go back in time and tell my papa that there's a man who claims to stand for working people who says, not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you're a white supremacist. That's not my papa's Democrat party.
According to Fox News, "Vance was referring to a speech El-Sayed gave at the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) 2022 annual banquet in Oklahoma. Criticizing sharia law equals racism, which is a line he's still using:
El-Sayed criticized a 2010 ballot measure....which sought to amend the state constitution to ban courts from considering Sharia law in their decisions. The measure was approved by 70% of voters but was ultimately blocked by federal courts.
"The same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, those forces are alive and well today," El-Sayed said.
But again, instead of confronting El-Sayed with his remarks, he gave his radical guest another out.
SHARPTON: It sounds to me like JD Vance is feeling some nostalgia for the segregationist Democrats of the old solid south. But I wonder what you heard in these comments.
EL-SAYED: He's painting this picture of going back in time to talk to his papa about me. Now, why is he pointing to me? Why is Donald Trump pointing to me, pointing to me to try and say that somehow I'm less American than they are. Now what does that have to do with. I don't know, the color of my skin, how I pray?....
It's not about Sharia law, because there's like less than 1% of the entire country that's even Muslim. It's about whether or not you can afford your groceries, whether or not you can afford your gas, whether or not you can see a doctor if you get sick. And my name and my background aren't raising your gas prices.
El-Sayed's talking points continued before Sharpton tossed another softball.
SHARPTON: I want to ask you about Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who yesterday sent a letter to airports in Houston and Dallas claiming that washing stations for traveling Muslims are discriminatory. He's also asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate. We've seen a rising tide of anti-Muslim sentiment on the right for many years now, and it has increasingly begun to work its way into public policy. As one of the country's most visible Muslim politicians right now, how do you push back on this?
EL-SAYED: I got to wonder why Governor Abbott has such an issue with people washing their feet. I kind of wonder what his feet look like.
That was the beginning of a 1 minute and 45 second response, which should have been interrupted right there by the Reverend, who might have pointed out that Abbott has been paralyzed from the neck down since 1984, when a tree crushed his spine while he was jogging in Houston.
Another simply disgraceful performance by Sharpton, who gladly played the role of El-Sayed's enabler.
