CBS News journalist panics as now-deleted post sends network 'spiraling': report

CBS News’ Jan Crawford reportedly got herself into hot water Sunday after posting — then quickly deleting — a statement on social media that one critic described as “embracing” an Islamophobic trope.On Saturday during a town hall in Michigan, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was asked by an attendee if he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, the Sunni Islamist organization that the Trump administration designated as a terrorist group earlier this year. In what The Tennessee Holler described as a “skillful” response, El-Sayed said he “absolutely” disavowed the organization while calling out the attendee for his use of the Islamophobic dual loyalty trope.Countless other onlookers championed El-Sayed’s response, whereas Crawford cheered the attendee asking the controversial question.“I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond ‘yeah absolutely’ response,” Crawford wrote in a now-deleted post on X. “His subsequent uninterrupted three-minute diatribe proving your exact point is the...