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Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today... - Ed Morrissey: CBS Reporters Shocked, Shocked to Hear Weiss Wants Reporting on El-Sayed · Conduit Place

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  Speaker 1: This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall. Scandal
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  Speaker 1: has once again hit CBS News, at least as defined
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  Speaker 1: by the rest of the protection racket media. CBS reporters
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  Speaker 1: complained to Semaphore's Max Tanney that managing editor Barry Weiss
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  Speaker 1: has asked them to investigate Abdul El-Sayed's many connections to
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: these reporters want to make this race about Trump. At CNN,
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  Speaker 1: Dana Bash tried to make Mike Rogers answer for Trump's
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  Speaker 1: ridicule of El-Sayed. Rogers pushed back hard enough to make
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  Speaker 1: Bash retreat while saying, I don't want to debate with you,
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  Speaker 1: after bringing it up in the first place. The question
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  Speaker 1: here shouldn't be whether Weiss has the authority to hand
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  Speaker 1: out investigative reporting assignments. It should be why reporters from
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  Speaker 1: CBS and all of the rest of the mainstream media
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  Speaker 1: aren't embarrassed that they have shown zero interest in a
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  Speaker 1: story where a Senate candidate supports and is supported by
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  Speaker 1: foreign terrorist organizations. Barry Weiss wants her news organization to
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  Speaker 1: cover all candidates. Mainstream media reporters want to cover four
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  Speaker 1: Democrats instead. I'm Ed Morrissey.