Democrats winning congressional primaries in this midterm cycle include a wave of radical left candidates not just allying with socialists like Bernie Sanders but with communists like Hasan Piker. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with Piker, a man who says America deserved 9/11 and insists mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong was a "great leader."

Not every network is avoiding the positions and associations of El-Sayed. CNN has repeatedly pushed him around, "like a Republican" would be the joke. The sharpest one came on July 19 on State of the Union.

CNN host Jake Tapper quoted from audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that when Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in the war, El-Sayed told staff, "There are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today, so, like, I just don't want to comment on Khamenei at all."

Boy, does that make Dearborn sound like a terribly anti-American town.

But Tapper pressed on: "I thought........

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