Mehedi Hassan Exposed !

 

Make American Planes Crash Again !

Inflammatory remarks he made in 2009 before becoming an MSNBC personality began circulating online again, when he compared non-Muslims to "animals" and linked homosexuals to "pedophiles" and "sexual deviants." New York Post reporter Jon Levine said it's "hard to imagine MSNBC allowing someone on television who said similar things about a different religion." 

"We know that keeping the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground, we are no different from the rest of the non-Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire," Hasan said in one of the unearthed clips. 

In 2019, Hasan apologized for those comments, calling them "dumb offensive ranty stuff" and admitted that he said "extreme-sounding things" as a young man.  

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It's not just his commentary on jews and Islam that has raised eyebrows. His own journalistic credibility was drawn into question earlier this year when he was accused of plagiarizing a piece arguing in favor of parents spanking their children. 

Investigative reporter Lee Fang published a report on his Substack Tuesday accusing the "Mehdi Hasan Show" host of "passing off others’ reporting as his own," pointing to several unattributed sentences from a 2000 Independent column he authored titled "No Harm In Smacking," that reads almost verbatim to a U.S. News and World Report article headlined "When to Spank," published two years earlier.

In one instance, Hasan argued in his column that "Anti-smacking crusaders have consistently relied upon inconclusive studies to make sweeping over-generalizations about the dangers of smacking."

In 1998, even the American Academy of Pediatrics toned down its blanket injunction against smacking, though it still takes a dim view of the practice. In fact, an AAP conference on corporal punishment in 1996 concluded that, in certain circumstances, smacking, or "spanking", may be an effective backup to other forms of discipline. 'There's no evidence that a child who is spanked moderately is going to grow up to be a criminal or antisocial or violent,' said S Kenneth Schonberg, a pediatrics professor co-chairing the meeting. In fact, the reverse may be true: a few studies suggest that, when used appropriately, spanking makes small children less likely to fight with others and more likely to obey their parents."