BND - Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission

🗞️ Story file #395

Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission

Oct 12, 9 PM ET to Oct 17, 11 AM ET

15outlets carried it
🫏1 · 0 · 14🐘left · center · right
4.6 dayson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
47 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
12people retold it online
1 of 3parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 12, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News
Oct 13, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 15, 4 AM ETretold online by 12 people
Oct 15, 1 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
Oct 16, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 9 PM to Oct 17, 11 AM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Hearsay” “I Was Lying?!” “Insinuating” “Meet the Press,” “You're Using Hearsay Evidence” 2 “Long Been” “Lying”

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “Report: Despite His Denials, Abdul El-Sayed’s Half-Sister Claims Family Has ‘Long Been’ in Muslim Brotherhood” → “El-Sayed Says Half-Sister’s Muslim Brotherhood Admission Is ‘Hearsay’…”
Fox News (5 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed's alleged family ties to Muslim Brotherhood surface after denying any link during NBC interview” → “El-Sayed argues with reporter over family's alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties”
Mediaite (2 wordings): “Mike Rogers Accuses El-Sayed of ‘Lying’ About Family’s Muslim Brotherhood Connection, Citing His Sister” → “El-Sayed Fumes During Tense Grilling from NBC’s Tom Llamas on Muslim Brotherhood Ties: You ‘Insinuating’ That ‘I Was Lying?!’”
New York Post (3 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed’s alleged family ties to Muslim Brotherhood surface after he denied any link” → “Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed bristled when grilled about whether he fibbed when he insisted his family didn’t have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Mike Rogers: El-Sayed Lies on Muslim Brotherhood Ties” → “Rogers: El-Sayed Lies on Muslim Brotherhood Ties”
Red State (5 wordings): “El-Sayed Campaign's Response to Muslim Brotherhood Story Has Some Glaring Problems Nick Arama” → “Abdul El-Sayed Holy Smokes: Things Get Super Uncomfortable When NBC Confronts El-Sayed on Muslim Brotherhood Ties Teri Christoph”
The Blaze (2 wordings): “On 'Meet the Press,' El-Sayed denied his family's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Hours later, the receipts landed.” → “VIDEO: Abdul El-Sayed IMPLODES under media pressure as Muslim Brotherhood allegations won't go away”
The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “Michigan’s El-Sayed Denies Family Ties To Muslim Brotherhood. His Sister’s Posts Don’t.” → “Michigan’s El-Sayed Cornered By Liberal Outlet Over Muslim Brotherhood, Then Lashes Out”
The Post Millennial (2 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed’s denial of family Muslim Brotherhood ties challenged after sister’s resurfaced posts claim connection” → “NBC confronts Abdul El-Sayed on false claim his family had no ties to Muslim Brotherhood”
The Washington Free Beacon (3 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed’s Family Has ‘Long Been’ in Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Senate Candidate’s Sister Said in Unearthed Social Media Posts” → “'Hearsay': Abdul El-Sayed Dismisses Sister's Claims About Family's Muslim Brotherhood Activism”
Townhall (6 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed Denied Having Family Ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, but His Sister Proved He's Lying” → “Here's More Proof That Abdul El-Sayed Has Ties to the Muslim Brotherhood Amy Curtis”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “El Sayed confronted with relative’s posts supporting Muslim Brotherhood after he denied affiliation” → “El Sayed confronted with relative’s posts supporting Muslim Brotherhood”

Every outlet's first headline (15), left to right by AllSides rating

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN27 min

Fox News19 min

BBC News73 s

KID ROCK, WHO DINED WITH TRUMP, CONNECTS EL-SAYED TO 9/11 TERRORISTS CNN, 9 min
TRUMP, GOP INTENSIFY ATTACKS BASED ON EL-SAYED'S RELIGION CNN, 9 min
TRUMP ALLY KID ROCK: EL-SAYED "ASSIMILATES" LIKE 9/11 TERRORISTS CNN, 6 min
"BRAVADO". EL-SAYED THINKS HE'LL WIN BY 7 POINTS Fox News, 4 min
ALLEGED EL-SAYED FAMILY TIES TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SURFACE Fox News, 2 min
EL-SAYED DENIES TIES TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD Fox News, 2 min
EL-SAYED REVERSES ON SOME KEY POSITIONS Fox News, 89 s
TRUMP ATTACKS MI SENATE CANDIDATE EL-SAYED AT OH RALLY. Rep. Debbie Dingell | (D) Michigan CNN, 76 s