CNN Bans Girdusky for Verbal Attack on Mehdi Hasan
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“I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” CNN has banned a conservative commentator from the network after he targeted journalist Mehdi Hasan with what he called a “joke” suggesting Hasan was a member of Hezbollah.
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