CNN Bans Conservative Writer After Comment on Commentator – Irvine Times

“Did you just say I should die?” Hassan said.

He was responding to Gidurski’s apparent reference to the attacks in September, when pagers and walkie-talkies used by hundreds of Hezbollah members in Lebanon and Syria exploded simultaneously, killing 39.

The attack was widely believed to have been carried out by Israel.

Hassan and Gidurski were on the News Night panel Monday night talking about Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, where speakers made various racist comments and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

The panel discussion devolved into a heated back-and-forth after Gidurski told Hasan, a commentator and founder of the media company Zeteo, that “you’ve been called anti-Semitic more than anyone else at this table.”

Host Abby Philip said Gidurski’s comment was “completely out of his pocket” and he apologized.

But after a commercial break, he disappeared.

Philip apologized to Hassan and the viewers.

She said Gidurski, author of They Don’t Listen: How Elites Created the National Populist Revolution, had crossed the line.

CNN had a heated discussion about Trump’s rally, where the racist and other derogatory language was a sign of how tensions are starting to boil just a week before a highly contested and contentious Election Day that reflects the nation’s political and cultural fissures.

Despite this fragmentation, Philip said, “we can have conversations about what’s going on in this country without resorting to the lowest … kind of discourse.”

CNN, saying there is “no place for racism or bigotry at CNN or on our airwaves,” said Gidurski would not be allowed back on the network.

Gidurski responded in a post on X, saying, “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi,” but apparently you can’t “if you’re joking. I’m glad America can see what CNN is all about.”