CNN's Cuomo Plays Softball With 'Global Phenomenon' Olympian in Hijab

Matthew Balan | August 16, 2016
Font Size

[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

CNN's Chris Cuomo heralded American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad as a "global phenomenon" on 16 August 2016 edition of New Day. Cuomo gave Muhammad the kid glove treatment by failing to ask her about her anti-Israel posts on Twitter and her controversial criticism of the "climate of anti-Islamic sentiment in the United States." Instead, the anchor prompted her to respond to unnamed "critics" who attacked her hijab as "a symbol of extremism. He also wondered, "What do you want people to know about what it is to be American?"

donate