It's becoming more and more apparent, that as we get closer and closer to the November elections, the left-wing media is, if you can believe it, getting even bolder when it come to displaying, promoting and protecting their various leftist narratives. Sunday on CNN's NewsRoom, Anchor Omar Jimenez repeatedly defended Hasan Piker and would not allow South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace to finish a thought on elected Muslim officials.
Jimenez, best remembered as the guy pushing "largely peaceful" takes on Kenosha rioting while fires burned behind him, previously pushed back on Scott Jennings objecting to Zohran Mamdani's stated plans to single out rich white people for higher taxes.
In this case, Mace posted about Muslim politicians, and Jimenez interrupted her 13 times in nearly five minutes on the topic. Mace took the unflinching position that each and every Muslim official is a threat.
JIMENEZ: You wrote, quote, "Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a Trojan horse and a threat to both national security and our republic." And then today you essentially added, "if not wanting to be blown up, stabbed or rammed by a car, by a radical Islamist in the United States of America makes us Islamophobes, then so be it." Are you saying that that anyone who is Muslim is a threat to this country?
Obviously she did not say that. But let the interruptions begin:
MACE: That's not what I said, number one, I think we do have a real issue with radical Islam--
JIMENEZ: It sounds like that's what you're saying.
MACE: Behavior-- No, I was talking about elected officials. When you look at what has just happened--
JIMENEZ: So any Muslim elected officials--
MACE: In the last couple of months--
JIMENEZ: Sorry to cut you off, but just to be clear, any elected Muslim officials.
Mace tried to talk about the associations these Muslim officials are displaying, but the interruptions were not about to stop.
MACE: Mamdani campaigned with an unindicted coconspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. You have Abdul El-Sayed, who was campaigning with Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. Yes, we should be very concerned--
JIMENEZ: He said he regretted those comments.
MACE: About people who believe in the radical--
JIMENEZ: But I take your point.
Mace attempted to continue, but didn't get far.
MACE: But that believe in this radical Islam ideology where women are covered head to toe, it's very oppressive where we've seen grooming gangs over--
JIMENEZ: But Congresswoman--MACE: In Europe--
JIMENEZ: There's no indication that that Mayor Mamdani has brought any of those ideals to New York City governance, or that just being Muslim allows you, brings those in.
MACE: If you're playing footsie with an Imam here in America who's an unindicted coconspirator in the 1993 world trade center bombings, yeah, we have a real problem with that kind of ideology--
JIMENEZ: But Congresswoman, when you make a blanket statement like that, it implies that every Muslim member of Congress or leadership, folks who, by the way, are elected by American citizens.
Jimenez defended Piker and ignored what Mace said about Mamdani, who when he was running for Mayor of New York, was seen posing arm-in-arm with Siraj Wahhaj, who last October, the New York Post described as a, "Notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn Imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging 'jihad' on the Big Apple."
Mace then brought up Piker again, and of course was immediately interrupted, again.
MACE: I am deeply concerned about Michigan Democrats nominating a guy, hanging out with Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11, who has a framed photo of the Twin [Towers]--
JIMENEZ: Which he's responded to and says he regrets those comments. But yes, keep going.
MACE: This is who he's hanging out with. This kind of person who's promoting, you know, communist ideology....And in the future, when our granddaughters are wearing burqas to school, we're going to look back-- *
JIMENEZ: There's no indication that that is happening on a wide basis. Folks that are getting into office--
MACE: Have you seen Dearborn? In Dearborn Michigan-
JIMENEZ: An expression of culture, Congresswoman--
MACE: One of the Mayors of Michigan said he was going to hold a parade--
JIMENEZ: Is different than a blanket city policy.
Mace was most likely talking about the Muslim Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan -- Abdullah H. Hammoud -- who last September told a Christian resident that he wasn't welcome in a debate over the naming of a street after an alleged pro-terror Arab leader, and told the man that if he ever left the city, he'd launch a parade in celebration. Jimenez expressed no concerns over that, or over Piker's take on terrorists organizations, the sexual violence of October 7, and his use of terms like, “inbred” and “psychopath” to refer to Israeli and Orthodox Jews.
The congresswoman then complained about residents who have to hear the Muslim call to prayer over a loudspeaker five times a day (as it is in Minneapolis), and Jimenez lectured again: "The First Amendment, excuse me, protects from freedom of religion. If you don't want to hear it, fine. You know, I grew up in a Christian household. I grew up in the South. Islam is not my religion, but I have Muslim friends who, if that is how they worship, even if I don't want to hear it, that is their right to hear."
On CNN, does the anchor conduct interviews -- or testy debates? Omar Jimenez cannot stand Nancy Mace's arguments against Islam and Muslim politicians, so they talk over each other. (He didn't do this to Mace as they discussed Iran and the Epstein files.) pic.twitter.com/noMuA0S71V
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) August 10, 2026
Jimenez, in those last five minutes, wasn't conducting an interview, but a debate.
Interrupting guests, apologizing for, and omitting valid information about radical haters, seems to be the script that will be used from now until November, This is CNN.
