CBS News总编辑巴里·韦斯再次遭到左派抨击，这一次是因为一份报告敦促她的员工调查密歇根州民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德与穆斯林兄弟会的潜在联系。
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is taking heat from the left yet again, this time over a report urging her staff to probe Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's potential ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
《Semafor》周日报道称，韦斯“亲自倡导CBS News记者追查与埃尔-赛义德所谓同情穆斯林兄弟会有关的多个报道角度”。该报道援引了两名对韦斯指令感到不满的匿名CBS News员工的话。CBS News匿名员工向自由派媒体抱怨老板，在媒体行业已司空见惯。
Semafor reported Sunday that Weiss "personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to El-Sayed’s supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood." The report cited two anonymous CBS News staffers who were aggrieved by Weiss' directive. Anonymous CBS News staffers complaining about their boss to liberal media outlets has become commonplace in the media industry.
NewsBusters执行编辑蒂姆·格雷厄姆认为，心怀不满的CBS News员工不断向自由派出版物提供匿名引语以抹黑韦斯，“有助于强化”长期以来对左派的偏见。“她让他们做困难的事，”格雷厄姆对福克斯新闻数字版表示。
NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham believes disgruntled CBS News employees constantly offering anonymous quotes to liberal publications in an effort to smear Weiss "helps reinforce" the longstanding bias toward the left. "She’s making them do difficult things," Graham told Fox News Digital.
“我们能不能调查一下阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德是否与穆斯林兄弟会有联系，就像他家人说的那样？你们怎么敢，”格雷厄姆讽刺道。“你们不应该做可能让民主党显得糟糕的报道。”虽然韦斯的捍卫者认为员工本质上是因为她要求他们做新闻工作而感到恼火，但进步派人士因最新报道而猛烈抨击韦斯。
"Can we look into whether Abdul El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, like his family says they do? How dare you," Graham quipped. "You’re not supposed to do stories that might make Democrats look bad." While Weiss’ defenders have suggested staffers are essentially irked that she asked them to do journalism, progressives lashed out against Weiss over the latest report.
“一个右翼、亲以色列、反穆斯林的网络喷子，完全不具备管理全国电视网的资格，实际上却在管理一家全国电视网，并试图让它表现得像个右翼、亲以色列、反穆斯林的网络喷子，”极左派Zeteo创始人、前MSNBC主持人梅赫迪·哈桑在X上反应道。
“任何有自尊的记者都不应该为巴里·韦斯工作，”《The Nation》通讯员杰特·希尔写道。
"A rightwing, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim troll who has zero qualifications to be running national TV network is in fact running a national TV network and trying to get it to behave like a rightwing, pro-Israel, anti-Muslim troll," far-left Zeteo founder and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan reacted on "No self-respecting journalist should work for Bari Weiss," The Nation correspondent Jeet Heer wrote.
“此时此地，没有人应该尊重或信任来自@CBSNews的任何东西，”极左派活动家肖恩·金高呼。
"Nobody should respect or trust ANYTHING coming out of @CBSNews at this point," far-left activist Shaun King exclaimed.
值得注意的是，哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻部在很大程度上避而不谈上周爆发的争议，当时人们挖出了其同母异父妹妹埃曼·阿卜杜勒哈迪（Eman Abdelhadi）的社交媒体旧帖，声称他们的家庭（包括母亲）与有争议的伊斯兰主义组织有联系，而他在接受美国全国广播公司（NBC）记者克里斯滕·韦尔克（Kristen Welker）采访时曾坚决否认存在这种联系。
Notably, CBS News largely refrained from covering the controversy that blew up last week when unearthed social media posts from his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, claimed their family, including their mother, had ties to the controversial Islamist group after he flatly denied there was any connection to NBC's Kristen Welker.
“和妈妈聊了她在70年代初大学时期参加穆斯林兄弟会活动的经历，太棒了 #敬佩，”阿卜杜勒哈迪在2012年发布的一条X帖子中写道，该帖子最早由《华盛顿自由灯塔报》（Washington Free Beacon）报道。
"Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect," Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 X post, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
据布鲁金斯学会（Brookings Institution）的一份报告称，他们的母亲法滕·埃尔科米（Fatten Elkomy）曾就读于埃及亚历山大大学（Alexandria University），该校在1970年代穆斯林兄弟会活动非常活跃。
Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, had attended Egypt's Alexandria University, which, according to a report from the Brookings Institution, had strong Muslim Brotherhood activity back in the 1970s.
阿卜杜勒哈迪是芝加哥大学（University of Chicago）教授，在另一条2012年的帖子中写道：“我家族长期以来都是穆兄会成员，但我一直觉得他们在政治领域的表现很糟糕/具有破坏性。”
In another 2012 post, Abdelhadi, a professor at the University of Chicago, wrote, "My family has long been MB, but I've always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly/destructively."
在2013年的第三条帖子中，她写道：“为所有在#埃及 支持#穆兄会 的家人祈祷。低调行事，保重平安。” 格雷厄姆认为，那些不愿深挖埃尔-赛义德新闻的CBS新闻员工，甚至觉得考虑保守派观点都是“极其冒犯”的。
In a third post from 2013, she wrote, "Praying for all my family that supports the #MB in #Egypt. Lie low, stay safe." Graham feels that CBS News staffers who didn’t want to look into the El-Sayed story must find it "wildly offensive" to even consider a conservative point of view.
“他们反对这样一种观点，即他们必须以某种方式变得稍微公正和平衡一些，”格雷厄姆说。
"They object [to] the idea that they have to be somehow a little bit fair and balanced," Graham said.
至于埃尔-赛义德，他最近在接受NBC记者汤姆·亚马（Tom Llamas）的激烈交锋中，再次强调了他的否认。
As for El-Sayed, he recently doubled down on his denial during a contentious exchange with NBC's Tom Llamas. "It's funny to me," El-Sayed responded.
“这对我来说很可笑，”埃尔-赛义德回应道。“我1984年出生在附近的罗切斯特希尔斯（Rochester Hills）。我在密歇根州长大，上了密歇根大学（University of Michigan），重建了这座城市的卫生部门，领导了这个县的卫生部门——而你却想问我1970年埃及发生了什么？你是认真的吗？”
"I was born in 1984 down the street in Rochester Hills. I was raised here in Michigan, went to the University of Michigan, rebuilt the health department in this city, led the health department in this county — and you want to ask me about what's happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?"
“我明白，但你被问了一个问题，你给出了一个回答，”亚马回应道。
"I get it, but you were asked a question, and you gave an answer," Llamas responded.
“我没有关系，我们没有关系，”埃尔-赛义德说，重申了他的否认。
"I have no ties, we have no ties," El-Sayed said, reiterating his denial.
这位民主党候选人告诉利亚马斯，他从未与母亲就其涉嫌的“穆斯林兄弟会”活动进行过交谈，并指责这位主播使用“来自一条推文的传闻证据”。“这根本不严肃，”埃尔-赛义德说。
The Democratic hopeful told Llamas he hadn't had conversations with his mother about her alleged Muslim Brotherhood activity and accused the anchor of using "hearsay evidence from a tweet." "That's just not serious," El-Sayed said.
“但你也曾因真实性问题抨击总统，当人们向你提问时，你是否期望得到真相？”利亚马斯随后问道。“你是在暗示我以某种方式在撒谎吗？”埃尔-赛义德反驳道。“我不知道，这就是我提问的原因，”利亚马斯回应道。“我在告诉你，我没有，”埃尔-赛义德对他说。
"But you've also gone after the president for truthfulness and when people ask you a question, do you expect the truth?" Llamas then asked. "Are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?" El-Sayed fired back. "I don't know, that's why I'm asking," Llamas responded. "And I'm telling you that I was not," El-Sayed told him.
在MS NOW的一次采访中，埃尔-赛义德将关于他家庭效忠的质疑，比作1960年约翰·F·肯尼迪作为天主教徒竞选总统时所面临的质疑。
In an interview on MS NOW, El-Sayed likened the questions about his family allegiances to ones John F. Kennedy faced as a Catholic while running for president in 1960.