He wasn’t on the panel with Scott Jennings and Cameron Kasky on CNN that night, but Medhi Hasan, who has been a panelist on the network, was aghast that the network would allow Jennings to say something accurate about the situation in Gaza. Some are saying this was a clash—it wasn’t.
“How are you going to enforce your edict on me, just out of curiosity?”
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 20, 2026
That’s the thing about the left - deep down, they believe they should decide who gets to speak and what everyone can and cannot say.
F**k. That. pic.twitter.com/n3z6HbPXfD
“Hey, CNN communications, are you ok with your paid contributor here saying all Palestinians are Hamas? Conflating Hamas with the Palestinian people? Saying ‘the Palestinians’ are ‘the aggressors’? Isn’t that massively racist?,” he wrote.”
Hey @CNNPR are you ok with your paid contributor here saying all Palestinians are Hamas? Conflating Hamas with the Palestinian people? Saying ‘the Palestinians’ are ‘the aggressors’? Isn’t that massively racist? https://t.co/jOez6KIqh4
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 20, 2026
Knowing he would get cooked in the comments, Hasan turned them off, which is a total b-iotch move, but you can still quote tweet, which led our newly-minted editor Larry O’Connor to deliver this smackdown from the top rope:
Someone should tell Mehdi that the Palestinians ELECTED Hamas to be their representatives and run their government.
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) January 20, 2026
I would tell him, but he restricts replies here, because, courage. https://t.co/asL7Svzbg0
Well played.