CBS staff seethe as Bari Weiss sics reporters on ‘thin theories’ about Dem stars: report

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has personally pushed the network’s journalists to pursue theories about Democratic candidates, according to insiders.Weiss has repeatedly encouraged CBS reporters to put significant resources toward finding a potential link between Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood, Semafor reported, and she also had staff pursue a rumor that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was in a mental health facility when he disappeared from the campaign trail.According to the report, Weiss has raised the El-Sayed theory on editorial calls and put the network’s investigative unit to work digging into the Michigan Democrat’s past, and that team is expected to publish a story in the coming days. But two people familiar with the reporting told Semafor that, as of Sunday afternoon, it wasn’t clear whether the story would reveal anything new.The scrutiny stems largely from a 2012 tweet by El-Sayed’s younger half-sister, Eman...