At 8:18 a.m. on Monday morning, CBS News published a post on X that immediately drew an avalanche of criticism: "As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001," the post said, "Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack."
The social media post was ripped directly from the lede of a story that the Bari Weiss-led organization had published on its website. In the piece, which the outlet boasted was "FIRST ON CBS," weekend coordinating producer Zak Hudak described El-Sayed as…
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