When you watch Dem candidate for Senate in Michigan Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, you're blown away by his calm, articulate command of issues, and his zest in undercutting MAGAt talking points. He's more than willing to engage the biased and hypocritical hosts of Rupert Murdoch's propaganda network, and as Sophia Tesfaye notes in Salon.com, he manages to dominate them:
"For years, I believed there was no particularly good reason for a serious progressive to go on Fox News. The network touts its 'fair and balanced' tagline, but it is not a neutral venue and it does not deserve to be treated like one. Its business model is grievance. A Democrat on Fox is a prop. The network invites them into the studio so its audience can watch them lose. Why submit to the bad faith interruptions and the inevitable social media clip engineered to make the left look elitist or insane?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has made me reconsider that.
The Michigan Democratic Senate candidate has emerged as an anomalous fixture on the conservative network, dominating segments with a cool composure that leaves hosts alternating between hostility and reluctant infatuation. El-Sayed is not merely surviving Fox News hits. He is dominating them, and the hosts know it — and Donald Trump definitely knows it." (our emphasis)
Tesfaye's article notes that engaging directly in an informed and confident manner with the Fuxers also worked with Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who didn't back down when confronted by lies and misrepresentations by the hosts. She concludes by saying:
"When a candidate like El-Sayed — just like Sanders and Buttigieg before him — speaks directly to economic class struggles without patronizing rhetoric, a significant percentage of non-ideological working-class viewers listen. And they recognize the fundamental truth in the critique."
Penetrating the right-wing MAGA disinformation bubble with doses of reality needs to be done, and El-Sayed is a master at doing it. Please consider supporting his campaign by going here.
(photo: Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance)
