Hey, we found Oliver Darcy! CNN, for some reason, rehired senior media correspondent Brian Stelter, and Darcy is writing for an outfit called Status News. As we reported on Monday, CBS News caused some controversy with a post that perpetual whiner and Abdul El-Sayed fanboy Mehdi Hasan called "super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic":
As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack. https://t.co/BHsuxDhOZj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 31, 2026
The headline of the piece read, "Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks." As our own Sam J. reported, as the 25th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, El-Sayed tried to delete tweets such as the one from 2021, where he said he mourned the "infrastructural devastation" in New York as well as the million lives and infrastructural devastation in three countries, "perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."
Darcy has a scoop on "CBS's El-Sayed Scandal," fingering CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for directing that the headline be tweaked to include a reference to El-Sayed's deleted posts.
Bari Weiss personally directed this morning’s CBS News headline about Abdul El-Sayed to be tweaked to specifically mention deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks
— Natalie Korach (@NatalieKorach) September 1, 2026
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Darcy wrote that "the Bari Weiss-led outlet is being pummeled by a storm of outrage over a story about Abdul El-Sayed—and Status has learned that within the network, some staffers have raised the matter with standards."
Meidas Touch called it "a major scandal."
A major scandal for CBS https://t.co/3oemOUkPBC
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 1, 2026
A news organization reporting complete and accurate facts is a scandal?
— King Bawk Bawk 🐔 (@KingBawkBawk) September 1, 2026
OMG, @CBS actually committed………..JOURNALISM 😩
— TeamUSA🇺🇸💯💪 (@TLMayMAGA47) September 1, 2026
I love how journalism to you is a scandal
— Liberty_Sean (@Liberty_Sean321) September 1, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed deleted his 9/11 tweets, and yet you're enraged about a tweaked headline. The hypocrisy from the left is insane.
— Paul J Elliott 🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@PaulJElliott) September 1, 2026
And a candidate deleting his tweets about 9/11 as the 25th anniversary nears is going to open him up to political attacks.
They're angry that Bari Weiss tweaked a headline to mention an important and completely true part of the story. https://t.co/OUjWE8TY0Y
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) September 1, 2026
As you all know, no mainstream press outlet would ever mention controversial deleted tweets from someone on the right, so ... https://t.co/koeTRlHdQP
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) September 1, 2026
Fascinated by the Bari Derangement Syndrome.
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) September 1, 2026
The Democrat candidate in the top Senate race in the country has been deleting tweets about how he feels about 9/11...
After campaigning with a surrogate who said America deserved 9/11.
Seems pretty newsworthy! https://t.co/O5xrPtWORV
So the “story” here is that Abdul El-Sayed deleted an offensive, abhorrent post about 9/11, CBS did a story on it, because it’s meaningful and shows who El-Sayed really is, and Bari Weiss said to reference that the post he deleted was about 9/11?
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) September 1, 2026
That’s the “scandal?” https://t.co/qV8OyN6IoP
Hey, look who showed up to white-knight for El-Sayed — the guy who called CBS News' post "super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic":
There was no offensive, abhorrent post, you’re shamelessly lying which is why you don’t quote these supposedly offensive posts
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 1, 2026
It's tough to quote them when the candidate keeps deleting them. Thank goodness for screenshots.
This is not hard, but guess what? @bariweiss is not the story. The head of a news organization making an editorial decision is not news.
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) September 1, 2026
The actual story is what a United States Senate candidate said about the deadliest terrorist attack in United States history. https://t.co/cJoIHBOYVW
What did he say?
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 1, 2026
Read the story, Mehdi.
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) September 1, 2026
My favorite part was where Oliver Darcy said el-Sayed's 9/11 tweets were "innocuous"
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 1, 2026
If they were so innocuous, why is El-Sayed deleting them all … after campaigning with "a Twitch streamer" who said that America deserved 9/11 and has the front page of the burning Twin Towers hanging in his podcast studio?
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