All posts tagged "Mehdi Hasan"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an unsettling speech to European leaders at the Munich security conference Monday, receiving a standing ovation that left an analyst stunned.

In an opinion piece for The Guardian published Tuesday, Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, described the "disturbing" 3,000-word address from the Trump administration's top diplomat. Hasan questioned Rubio's "love letter to conquest and colonialism" and called out his "gaslighting" as the son of Cuban immigrants who once called President Donald Trump a "con artist" and "lunatic." He's now telling European leaders they should support America's president.

"Did they not realize that they may have been clapping for their own demise? That despite Rubio’s gentler tone and polished language, despite all his talk of transatlantic comity and unity, he was advocating for a geopolitics of vicious authoritarianism. That Rubio may be good cop to Trump’s bad, but their goal is one and the same: to make empire great again," Hasan wrote. ...

Former MSNBC Mehdi Hasan was taken aback when a former White House official blamed Trump's staff for giving the president bad information.

Hasan, who founded independent news site Zeteo, asked former Trump chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney "to explain Trump's insane defense of the doctored image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles" as justification for deportation.

"He was the man sent illegally to El Salvador by the Trump administration," Hasan said of Abrego Garcia. "They tried to justify his deportation by saying he was an MS-13 gang leader. Trump put out a picture, he held up a picture of his knuckles, showing 'MS-13' photoshopped onto his hand."...

Conservative pundit Piers Morgan, who recently told Bill Maher that he doesn't "respect" Donald Trump's recent reversal on abortion, faced off Saturday against his ex-MSNBC counterpart, Mehdi Hasan.

Hasan, who left MSNBC for The Guardian after his show on the network was cancelled, started off by suggesting the "News" be left off of Fox.

"When I was at MSNBC, I refused to refer to it as Fox News, only as Fox," he said. "It doesn't deserve the 'News' label. Let's not kid ourselves or help normalize a far-right propaganda outlet."...

Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D) on Saturday was called out by an MSNBC host and others for his take on the unfortunate events in Israel.

In response to a post suggesting Israel might harm civilians in Gaza, Moskowitz seemed to be OK with that result.

"This is Hamas fault and only Hamas. Israel gives a warning to save lives," Moskowitz wrote on Saturday of the purported Israeli warning to "leave." "The women and children that were murdered in Israel got no warning."...