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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"Mehdi Hasan Arrives on Cable News"
@Slate's @aymanndotcom did an interview with me.

Enjoy 😉
slate.com/news-and-polit…
"Bill O’Reilly lecturing anyone on fracturing the country is like asking the arsonist outside the house fire, 'Hey, how upset has this fire made you?' O’Reilly and Fox are at the heart of fracturing and polarizing and dividing this country."

Me to @slate:
slate.com/news-and-polit…
"The fourth estate is part of democracy. If democracy is under attack, we are under attack. We should have a pro-fact, pro-reality, pro-democracy bias."

Me to @slate:
slate.com/news-and-polit…
"Tens of millions of people in this country are getting the rest of us ill and killed. A lot of them disproportionately are Republicans. We can’t shy away from that fact."

Me to @Slate:
slate.com/news-and-polit…

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Dec 5, 2021
I'll be back in the seat tonight, hosting the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC live from 8pm ET.

Join me! Much to discuss and debate.
On the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC tonight, I'll be joined by @PeterASinger, Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Dec 3, 2021
So Sinema finally did a sitdown interview. With CNN.

No questions about the filibuster or voting rights.
None on her U-turns on drug pricing & the minimum wage.
Nothing asked about her corporate donors.

Mostly softballs. No follow-ups. Painful to watch.
Wish it'd been @PamelaBrownCNN or @jaketapper.

At this point, if Sinema is agreeing to a (rare!) interview, she needs to be grilled and challenged, and the interviewer needs to bring receipts.

Sinema's BS needs to be confronted in real time.
Also, can we please stop pretending - and framing questions around this idea - that the critics of Manchin and Sinema are 'progressives' only. It's almost the entire Democratic Party. Multiple 'moderate' or 'centrist' Dems in swing seats have called out Sinema.
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Nov 25, 2021
This is disgusting. How is this ok? How is this not worthy of censure? Of being stripped of committee assignments? I don’t expect anything from the GOP anymore but, hey, Dems? Anyone going to do anything about this racism and anti-Muslim bigotry? Do Muslim Americans not matter?
Like so many Muslim Americans, I am tired of the relentless demonization and bigotry. The ‘jokes’ about us being terrorists and ‘backpacks.’ The collective blaming and bullying.

Most of all I’m tired of liberals who claim to care about racism turning a blind eye to Islamophobia.
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” - Dr King
#Islamophobia
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Nov 18, 2021
Bravo @thevirdas.

You must, must, watch his powerful, eloquent, thought-provoking, brutally honest, and above all else, very, very funny monologue at the Kennedy Center on the 'Two Indias.'

"You make some noise for the India you want to live in."
And of course politicians in India, especially but not exclusively on the right, immediately made his point for him (and reminded us how free speech is under threat in the world's biggest democracy):
theguardian.com/world/2021/nov…
"I come from an India that is Hindu and Muslim and Christian and Sikh and Parsi and Jew and when we all look up at the sky we only see one thing together: the price of patrol."
- @thevirdas
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Nov 7, 2021
Sorry, what? I’m pretty sure I was sounding the alarm on Trump & democracy long before you were, Congressman, back when you were refusing to impeachment him first time round.

Also, unlike you, I support the Freedom to Vote and John Lewis voting rights bills. How come you don’t?
*impeach not impeachment dammit #typo
I’ll be responding to @AdamKinzinger on my @MSNBC show tonight at 8pm ET. The Congressman is welcome to join me to debate voting rights, democracy, and bipartisanship if he’d like.
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Nov 4, 2021
Fact-check: false!
Almost every BBB policy that Manchin has blocked has huge support from the public at large - including majority support from his beloved Republicans!
One thing I was always amazed by when I didn’t live here and am even more amazed by since I moved here, is this weird American insistence - even from many Dems and libs - that America is a rightwing country - in defiance of all the polling and electoral evidence.
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