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[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 94 points 2 days ago

the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview.

Man fuck right off, that wasn't at all a weird question to ask in response to a fucking weird obsession Jesse has with children's "dingilings"

[-] eurodyne@piefed.world 77 points 2 days ago

Jesse Watters is the one who brought it up, after all.

El-Sayed (a medical doctor, by the way) only responded in kind, and Watters - having brought it up as some kind of battle mark, some line that should never be crossed - immediately reversed course at brakeneck speed and attempted to dismiss it as if it were nothing, framing El-Sayed as an absurdist for even mentioning the subject that Watters himself raised in feigned outrage, despite El-Sayed’s repeated warnings that Watters would regret addressing the subject

[-] ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.today 25 points 2 days ago

If you ever believed that the manipulation stream media was on the right side of history. Then this whole interview plus the one Welker did with Angie Nixon should tell you that they never were.

These companies act like assholes to Progressives and DSA while throwing cotton candy at Pedophiles and Rapists.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

But...it is on the right side...

[-] Dave 1 points 19 hours ago

You could say they are on the far-right side of history 🙃

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

....and this article agrees with you. Wh....why are you telling them to fuck off........?

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

On the surface the article comes off as rather neutral in tone but the headline, the line about "raising eyebrows", and really just the existence of this article at all is so standard for "left" leaning news corporations. ~~Mamdani's~~ El-Sayed's response didn't "raise eyebrows" from anyone except the fox viewers who would have already been fired up before the camera even started rolling and all this article is doing is validating them.

It's always the same thing, politicians on the right are allowed to say or do anything they want freely without any scrutiny and those who are left of centre are held under a microscope.

As a (Godwin's Law proving) example: imagine if what ~~Mamdani~~ El-Sayed had said was "I actually think Hitler was a bad person" and then we got articles about that statement raising eyebrows. It wouldn't be false but the only people it'd be referring to would be Nazis and why the fuck would you validate or acknowledge their opinions?

[-] Pelicanen@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

That was El-Sayed, not Mamdani. Mamdani is the mayor of New York.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Oh right. I think I got the names mixed up since I had been commenting on Mamdani earlier. Tbf I'm not American so it's a bit surprising that I even know the name of an American city's mayor at all lol

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