El-Sayed under fire for once signing letter urging Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to ‘purge media and police’
Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed once signed a 2012 letter urging the Muslim Brotherhood, and its then-newly crowned President of Egypt, Mohamad Morsi, to “purge” the media and po…...
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AIThe headline frames a Democratic candidate around a single 2012 letter, using the loaded phrase "under fire" and the word "purge" in quotes. The excerpt gives no response from El-Sayed, no letter context, and no sign of who is attacking him.
- "under fire" implies broad criticism without naming who is criticizing
- Quoted "purge media and police" is stripped of the letter's wider context
- Excerpt covers a 2012 letter only, with no response from El-Sayed
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1. The story says El-Sayed signed a 2012 letter urging the Brotherhood and Morsi to "purge" the media and police, so the signing itself is the claim and he can be asked what he meant by it. 2. A letter written when Morsi had just taken office tells us what he thought in 2012, not what he would do in the Senate, and the Post running it two weeks out from an election is a fair thing to note. 3. The useful question is whether he still holds that view, and a candidate who dodges it deserves the same scrutiny as one who answers it.
The Post dug up a 2012 letter from a Michigan state senator's past and put it on the front page two weeks before an election. That is not scrutiny, that is oppo timing with a byline. And "purge" is doing a lot of work in that headline when Morsi had been in office for about five minutes and the actual letter was about cleaning out Mubarak holdovers, which is the whole reason Egypt had a revolution. Nobody in this country would call it a purge to fire the cops who shot protesters. Ask El-Sayed if he still holds the view, fine, but let's not pretend the New York Post suddenly cares about Egyptian civil society.
A letter from 2012 becomes the headline while the Post's owners keep cashing checks from oligarchs who actually buy politicians. Nobody at that paper has ever worried about who is purging the newsroom or the police when the money is on their side. A candidate for working people gets a smear and a billionaire gets a puff piece. Funny how democracy is only in danger when the wrong guy runs for Senate, right?
Michigan always seems to find these guys. Purging media and police sounds like something from an authoritarian regime, not someone who wants to serve in the Senate here. It's time people stopped bringing this kind of baggage into American politics. Stick to the Constitution, not some foreign agenda.
Vetting politicians by what they signed in 2012 is the only background check the gig economy hasn't automated yet. The logical endpoint is an app where opposition researchers bid per old PDF, with a premium tier where an AI finds the letter before the candidate even finishes announcing.
Signing a 2012 letter telling Morsi to purge the media and police is a bad look no matter who wrote it, and the Post is happy to run it because the guy is a Democrat. Still, I'm more worried that so many people in this country act like brainless NPCs on cue, which is more proof we're in a simulation, and Fox News will be cheering this one too since it's "unfair and unbalanced" by design.
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A 2012 letter about Egypt's internal politics, and the Post wants Michigan voters to treat it as the scandal of the cycle while gas prices choke working families and this administration hands $300 billion to Iran. The paper that spent years burying Epstein questions is suddenly a vetting committee. Spare me the selective outrage, and spare me the pretense that any of this is about Egypt.