Fox News Contributor Katie Pavlich Calls Mehdi Hasan a ‘Terrorist’
Fox News Contributor Katie Pavlich referred to Mehdi Hasan as a terrorist on Tuesday while wading into the former MSNBC host’s beef with Vice President JD Vance.
Pavlich cited longstanding official U.S. policy not to cave to the demands of terror groups while urging Vance not to debate Hasan on his show to discuss the First Amendment.
Hasan and Vance started going at it on X Monday after Axios reporter Marc Caputo posted a report about President Donald Trump blocking the Associated Press from White House events.
Trump has targeted the wire service over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in line with one of his executive orders.
Citing controversial remarks Vance made about the country’s European allies last week in relation to free speech in Munich, Hasan shared Caputo’s report and went after the VP.
“Hey @JDVance, I know you’re busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this?” he wrote.
Two hours later, Vance fired back.
“Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views,” he wrote. “The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!”
Hasan later replied, “Open invite to the Vice President to come on my show and do an interview with me about the state of free speech in the US and Europe. He won’t accept, of course, as he has a safe space on Fox. But I’m making the offer anyways, in the name of free speech and free debate.”
Pavlich entered the exchange and posted, “U.S. policy is not to negotiate with terrorists.”
Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky was banned from CNN last October when he implied Hasan, who is Muslim, was a terrorist during an exchange on CNN NewsNight.
In a reference to Israel’s pager-bombing of militants in Lebanon, Girdusky said, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”
Pavlich was slammed for her comment connecting Hasan to terror.
Tim Miller of The Bulwark implied Trump had capitulated to a terrorist in Vladimir Putin in a response.
Others also went to Hasan’s defense:
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