[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 16 December 2015 edition of CNN Tonight, left-wing analyst Rula Jebreal and Columbia University's Ahmed Shihab-Eldin unleashed against the Republican presidential candidates, in the wake of the CNN debates on 15 December 2015. Jebreal asserted that Ted Cruz was "nostalgic for Arab dictators," and concluded that "this is racist. This is pure bigotry." She later likened the GOP contenders to the Nazis: "Trump is expanding the far right, so whoever is condemning Trump is moderate. But what you are hearing from these people is a criminalization of an entire group of people — something that, actually, we heard...in Europe before World War II."
Shihab-Eldin claimed that "the entire premise of this debate was based on fear-mongering; was based on hate speech; and was not based on the facts. It was based on the manipulation of the public's perception of fear." He also hyped that apparently, "81 times, the word 'terror' or 'terrorist' or 'terrorism' was used. The word 'attack' was used 50 times....The word 'guns' was not even mentioned once."