Jan Crawford, CBS News’ national legal correspondent, couldn’t wait to tweet out pointed criticism of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s exchange with paid agitator and white Christian nationalist Tommy Teepell.
Here’s what she posted:
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And here’s the text for posterity. She quote-tweeted his video with this text:
Tommy, thank you. I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond “yeah absolutely” response. His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self own most ppl only dream about triggering. Congrats
So for me, this is very strange coming from a legal correspondent. Not just the congrats, but the utter disregard for the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, since that was really what the “subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe” was about, and it certainly did not prove any failure to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, her quote confirms that he did, in fact, do exactly that.
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