With the midterms about a week away, it's crunch time for the liberal media, especially when it comes to getting MI Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed elected, and two blatant examples of that occurred Sunday. First on NBC's Meet The Press, GOP nominee Mike Rogers battled host Kristen Welker, and on MS NOW's Politics Nation, where Al Sharpton tossed softballs at El-Sayed, ignoring just about every major controversy surrounding him.
Sharpton kicked things off by introducing a clip from Barack Obama at a Detroit campaign stop on Saturday.
SHARPTON: The former president drew a link between the tactics used against El-Sayed and by Republicans and the ones he faced 20 years ago.
OBAMA CLIP: They will use lies and they will use fear, and they will use division. And they may even use your name or your faith to somehow suggest that you are dangerous and less than trustworthy and and less patriotic and less American than they are. We have seen this movie before. I starred in it.
Sharpton then introduced his guest, and asked, "What what was it like having Obama stump or for you in your these final days of the campaign?"
To hear his answer, you would think El-Sayed has always worshipped Obama, politically speaking of course.
EL-SAYED: I got to say, it's pretty surreal. You know, he was the president of my 20s. He's kind of that canonical figure that you always look to. I read everything he wrote twice. And just so look up to the way that he led, the way that he carried himself, the elegance and the grace. And I've said this before, there's no world in which somebody like me, with my name and my faith get to run for office without president Obama having done it before. The first time I ever saw myself in a politician.
From that glowing assessment of Obama, one would never know that in a 2012 op-ed for HuffPost, El-Sayed accused Obama of failing to deliver on campaign promises, and mocked his campaign slogan of "hope and change", with, "I realize that I have little hope because there has been less change."
As Fox News has pointed out, he, "criticized Obama's international record and strikes on Pakistan and Yemen, an underperforming economy and, in his view, little to no change in being accepted as a Muslim American."
Pretty significant, but needless to say, Sharpton made no mention of any of it, because this is MS NOW. He also failed to ask El-Sayed how he felt about Obama's recent statements that Israel has stolen Palestinian land. What a shock. Instead he moved on to El-Sayed's need to "close the gap" with black voters, and made an interesting comment about a past conversation between the two.
SHARPTON: You just had the first black president in U.S. History vouch for you before black voters in one of the nation's historically blackest cities, Detroit. On the other side, as your opponent, Mike Rogers, attempts his version of black voter outreach....
We've heard fears from some black organizers in Michigan that you've yet to close the gap in black communities. And you and I have talked about that, that these voters you'll need to win. How has your conversation with the black community evolved over the course of this race?
It's not clear when Sharpton and El-Sayed have talked about black votes. Was it during an MS NOW interview, or somewhere else?
El-Sayed was then allowed to go uninterrupted for a minute and a half, pitching himself to the black community, and accusing the Rogers campaign of a, "shameful kind of tokenism", apparently for opening up an office in Detroit, something Sharpton had to hold back from knocking himself.
SHARPTON: Yeah, Rogers opened up an office, but all right, I'll leave it there.
He then moved on, drawing a link between El-Sayed and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
SHARPTON: It's hard to not look at these attacks, though, against you and compare them to what's happening to Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. In addition to the recent federal raid on her home, the President and his allies have been demonizing her Somali heritage. What's your response to this rhetoric and the suggestion from Trump and his allies that Americans of certain backgrounds shouldn't have a say in American politics?
The alleged "suggestion" from Trump was more than enough for El-Sayed to label, "disgusting and un-American," and continue on uninterrupted for another 1 minute and 20 seconds.
Sharpton then set El-Sayed up to spew Dem talking points for the final minute and 30 seconds, uninterrupted of course, and you can see that on the video below.
This whole segment was nothing more than a campaign ad for El-Sayed, and you are sure to see a few more as next Tuesday gets closer.
