It was a wild NewsNight for Abby Phillip Monday. The CNN anchor broke up a heated on-air verbal brawl after commentator Ryan Girdusky made a bigoted remark about fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan. (TVNewser)
Girdusky was removed from a panel on CNN NewsNight after he told Hasan, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off”—a reference to the pager bombs Israel detonated in Lebanon last month, killing at least 42 people and injuring hundreds more. (Mediaite)
He attempted to apologize amid crosstalk and sought to justify his comment by indicating that he thought Hasan said he supported Hamas.
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