This Dem Uses Fox as a Platform for Hate
Good evening, and welcome to this week’s **‘Ragebait.’**
**Justin Baragona** here, bringing you the latest media dispatches from the right-wing industrial outrage complex and Bari World. In tonight’s edition, we look at why a former spokesman for Jill Biden is publicly endorsing a Trump-backed Republican for Senate, and why it may not be all that surprising. Also, if you thought Fox was bad with the anti-Muslim hate, you ain’t seen nothing yet, while it looks like Bari Weiss’s right-wing blog is doing the bidding of one of its investors.
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# **Why Is This Ex-Biden Spox Choosing Mike Rogers Over Abdul El-Sayed?**
*Michael LaRosa attends “Politico X Showtime”, a cocktails and conversation event co-hosted by Politico Playbook and Showtime’s The Circus, at the International Spy Museum on March 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images.*
Days after [declaring his support][2] for Michigan’s Trump-endorsed GOP Senate candidate **Mike Rogers**, claiming he couldn’t defend **Abdul El-Sayed’s** [“cowardly”][3] stance on 9/11, **Michael LaRosa**, a one-time press secretary for former First Lady **Jill Biden**, doubled down during an appearance on MAGA sycophant **Laura Ingraham’s** Fox show.
And he made sure to add a dash of Islamophobia too.
Pointing out that he’d already signed a petition calling for New York Mayor **Zohran Mamdani** to be banned from the 9/11 commemoration next month, LaRosa demanded that El-Sayed fly to the Big Apple and personally address every single person who lost a family member in the 2001 World Trade Center attack.
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“He should look them in the eye and tell them that there is no justification for what happened,” LaRosa [groused][5]. “I would like him to wipe the grin off his face when he is talking about it, too!”
LaRosa was linking El-Sayed to comments made seven years ago by [influential leftist streamer][6] **Hasan Piker**, who has been campaigning for El-Sayed. Though Piker [took those remarks back][7], saying he “obviously” didn’t mean America deserved 9/11, it hasn’t mattered to El-Sayed opponents who have [found their new bogeyman][8]. (Notably, Rogers [falsely claimed][9] that El-Sayed “believes that America deserved 9/11” shortly after El-Sayed secured the Dem nomination.)
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[2]: https://x.com/MichaelLaRosaDC/status/2086184178035347712
[3]: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-world-veteran-issues-stark-warning-abdul-el-sayed-crosses-party-lines
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[5]: https://x.com/Acyn/status/2086961595486494787
[6]: https://zeteo.com/p/hasan-piker-heart-and-mind?utm_source=publication-search
[7]: https://youtu.be/lKQGvVsRpaE?si=yoirHdCFsIjywWLg&t=40
[8]: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/09/trump-elsayed-gop-boogeyman-01029265
[9]: https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/rogers-makes-false-9-11-claim-about-el-sayed/
[10]: https://zeteo.com/p/this-dem-uses-fox-as-a-platform-for
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