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BROADCAST BIAS: Networks cover for radical Hasan Piker despite ties to Senate nominee

Podcaster praised Mao Zedong, said America deserved 9/11 and was suspended from Twitch for violent rhetoric

By Tim Graham Fox News

Published August 8, 2026 8:00am EDT

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Sean Hannity: El-Sayed refuses to condemn Hasan Piker's 'radical beliefs'

Fox News host Sean Hannity discusses Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's refusal to condemn Hasan Piker and the policies backed by Democratic Socialists of America-supported candidates on ‘Hannity.’

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The primary win by Abdul el-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race demonstrated that Democrats and their broadcast media allies can’t really identify a radical left-wing fringe anywhere. They ought to easily find the fringe with radical Twitch streamer and podcaster Hasan Piker, who el-Sayed campaigned with and refuses to condemn.

Now that el-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers in the general election, the networks are going to defend the Democrat against charges that he campaigned with Piker, who has proclaimed that America deserved 9/11 and that Chinese mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong was "one of the great leaders of this world." A few weeks ago, Piker appeared as a speaker at a College Democrat meeting dressed in a Mao-style suit. But don’t call him a communist!

In a rare bit of straight reporting on el-Sayed, "NBC Nightly News" included this from reporter Shaquille Brewster on Wednesday, Aug. 5: "He’s also been criticized for campaigning with controversial left-wing podcaster Hasan Piker, who said America deserved the 9/11 terror attacks. El-Sayed said he disagrees, but would not disavow Piker’s views."

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