Lay Off of Wajahat Ali, Who Is ‘Just a Small-Time Podcast Host Who Drives a Minivan’

As our own Just Mindy reported on Friday, Wajahat Ali, a regular guest on Mehdi Hasan and Joy Reid's MSNBC shows, nodded along as his podcast guest, Rula Jebreal, a Palestinian journalist and currently a visiting professor at the University of Miami, called House Minority Leader Extreme Hakeem Jeffries a "monkey" and an "errand boy." As Mindy followed up on Saturday, Ali and Jebreal rushed to Joy Reid's podcast for rehabilitation. As one person posted, the "find a black person OK with the racism" tour has begun.

Ali also posted to X, suggesting people pick on Laura Loomer and John Fetterman, as he's just "a small-time podcast host who drives a minivan."

Many of the folks who have smoke for me today, a small time podcast host who drives a minivan, somehow barely muster a few or zero words of condemnation against Laura Loomer, Randy Fine, Bill Maher, Fetterman and other racists and apologists for Israel's genocide.

Interesting.…
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) September 5, 2026

"Oh well. Enjoy Labor Day weekend, everyone," he concluded.

Aw, poor widdle Islamo-Commie.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) September 5, 2026

Gold star to Waj for running my patented Get Out of Racist Jail Free playbook to perfection in response to Calling Hakeem Jeffries a Monkeygate.

As a reminder, here’s a summary of the steps, but you can DM me for my free $40 e-book for more info:

1. Defense: Point out that… https://t.co/qcC6iLluIi
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) September 5, 2026

The post continues:

… you said “Not to be racist but” before you said it. If you say not to be racist you are, by definition, not being racist.
2. Offense: Accuse critics of being the Real Racists.
3. Misdirection: Just start talking about Israel. Everyone will get mad and forget about the thing you said.
4. Sympathy: You’re just a poor baby podcaster. Why do people even CARE what you said. You drive a MINIVAN for Christ’s sake. A MINIVAN.

There's no genocide. Oh, and please mention AIPAC next time you tweet. You fucked up for not immediately calling out someone who called a Black man a m**key. Own you and your interviewee's racism. Amazing how the far left immediately goes to whataboutism when they fuck up.
— Phil Robert Ellis (@philrobertellis) September 5, 2026

So now you’re going to play the victim, an insignificant nobody as you try and use classic whataboutism to somehow justify calling a black man, from the party you support, a monkey because he isn’t saying and doing what you want. Piss off
— Mekius Kaximus (@asherrin9) September 5, 2026

You’re too dim to understand the simple fact that there wasn’t a genocide and that might explain why you don’t drive a better car or have a bigger audience.
— Emma Hitchcock (@EmmaHitchcocked) September 5, 2026

"I'm just a small-time podcaster who drives a minivan. You should be going after Bill Maher for being a genocide apologist!"

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Lay Off of Wajahat Ali, Who Is ‘Just a Small-Time Podcast Host Who Drives a Minivan’

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