{"id":80163,"date":"2026-10-18T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/cbs-reporter-apologizes-and-deletes-post-praising-abdul-el-sayed-heckler\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:54:49","slug":"cbs-reporter-apologizes-and-deletes-post-praising-abdul-el-sayed-heckler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/cbs-reporter-apologizes-and-deletes-post-praising-abdul-el-sayed-heckler\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS reporter apologizes and deletes post praising Abdul El-Sayed heckler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Crawford had praised man who asked Democratic candidate whether he would disavow Muslim Brotherhood<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/cbs\">CBS<\/a>\u2019s chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has apologized for and deleted a social media post praising a man who questioned Democratic Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood during a town hall on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Crawford, who initially joined CBS in 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JanCBS\/status\/2111865681658687737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2111865681658687737%7Ctwgr%5E95d3e8ac906cd8f2086b6c9dd2003e59e1e0b929%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2Fcbs-news-correspondent-deletes-and-apologizes-for-post-lauding-heckler-at-el-sayed-town-hall-amid-heavy-backlash-a-violation-of-cbs-news-standards%2F\">wrote<\/a> on X: \u201cEarlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall. I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/oct\/18\/cbs-reporter-apologizes-abdul-el-sayed-post\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Crawford had praised man who asked Democratic candidate whether he would disavow Muslim Brotherhood CBS\u2019s chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has apologized for and deleted a social media post praising a man who questioned Democratic Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood during a town hall on Saturday. On Sunday, Crawford, &#8230; <a title=\"CBS reporter apologizes and deletes post praising Abdul El-Sayed heckler\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/cbs-reporter-apologizes-and-deletes-post-praising-abdul-el-sayed-heckler\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CBS reporter apologizes and deletes post praising Abdul El-Sayed heckler\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}