Washington Free Beacon

El-Sayed has nonetheless partnered with the center throughout his political career. He held a fundraiser there during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, and a 2020 report from the mosque notes that it partnered with El-Sayed “for a two-day training on civic engagement, organizing, and storytelling” for Muslim youth looking to get involved in the 2020 elections.

“Siblani’s inflammatory remarks have drawn rebuke from Jewish groups, a minority of Dearborn residents, and from Rep. Haley Stevens, who narrowly lost to El-Sayed in the Democratic primary in August,” writes Ross. “Stevens condemned Siblani last year over his remarks at the Dearborn rally and said she would ‘not condone or associate’ with the newspaper publisher.”

“The about-face is proof that even journalists are capable of doing their jobs checking their own facts and pursuing stories under the assumption that politicians—even Democrats—are capable of lying,” @AndrewStilesUSA writes. “It’s almost as if the absence of ‘proof’ in this case was directly related to mainstream media’s complete lack of interest in finding it.”

“The New York Times is published by a for-profit company controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, who are rich well beyond the $50-a-month recurring donations to the Bernie Sanders campaign level,” Stoll writes. “The New York Times Company in 2022 hired a full time ‘director of philanthropic partnerships,’ Marcia Parker, to ‘lead a team created in 2019 to develop newsroom initiatives funded by foundations and in partnership with nonprofits.’ The Times is busy telling Wall Street what a great business it has, while simultaneously holding out a tin cup soliciting for charitable help. If Soros and Omidyar and Bloomberg or Heather Gerken want to subsidize the Ochs-Sulzberger family with charitable dollars, God bless them. But the tradeoff for Times readers and non-Sulzberger shareholders involves seeing whatever value there is in the news and opinion reporting diluted by someone else’s storytelling.”