I didn’t think he would be a transformative president. Joe Biden has done a lot, more than any president since LBJ, some might say since Roosevelt.” My wife and I and our kids, we feel like Will Smith in I Am Legend: we’re the last people still maskingĭuring the 2020 Democratic primary election, Hasan, still at the Intercept, was more sympathetic to the progressive senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
“I met someone recently who’s like, ‘Well, what’s he done? Joe Biden’s done nothing.’ There’s this fashionable view: completely untrue. Why would I want to get that?”Īnd unlike some on the left, he speaks about Joe Biden with the zeal of a convert. This is a disease that every study shows will increase your chance of a heart attack, dementia, a stroke, diabetes, not to mention long Covid itself, brain fog, all the other issues. “What Americans aren’t being told, sadly, is that most experts in the field don’t agree with the media, Congress, the White House on this. “My wife and I and our kids, we feel like Will Smith in I Am Legend: we’re the last people still masking in our friends’ circles,” he explains to the Guardian through a face mask in his glass-walled office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mehdi Hasan chats with his colleagues before his show in Washington DC on 31 January. For another, he is still fastidious about taking precautions to avoid the coronavirus even as nearly everyone else seems to have thrown caution to the wind. For one thing, he is personally opposed to abortion, though he condemned last year’s overturning of Roe v Wade and believes the law should uphold a woman’s right to choose. After the police killing of Tyre Nichols, an African American man in Memphis, he discussed critical race theory and policing with two leading academics.Ĭlearly, Hasan is not afraid to be an outlier. When the war in Ukraine erupted, Hasan offered a 10-minute monologue about the fascist philosopher who informs Vladimir Putin’s worldview. During the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, it featured the Afghan perspective at length. One explanation is that, unlike shock jocks, bomb throwers and social media stars on the right, his show undeniably does substance. But he says the network has been entirely supportive: he hosts weekly shows on MSNBC and NBC’s streaming channel Peacock. As a former columnist and podcaster at the Intercept, and ex-presenter on Al Jazeera English, he used to worry that MSNBC would find him too edgy, too iconoclastic. He is a British-born Muslim of Indian descent, anti-establishment muckraker and unabashed lefty with a bias towards democracy. Thanks those who criticise the American news media as too white, too Christian, too complacent, too inward looking, too pompous (“democracy dies in darkness”), too prone to herd mentality and too deferential to authority, Hasan has come along in the nick of time. “I also never thought I’d see double standards on terrorism bluntly addressed on primetime, but tonight I got to address it. Tonight, I did the interview,” the 43-year-old tweeted afterwards. “When I was growing up, I never imagined I’d see, on primetime, a Muslim host interviewing a Muslim politician.
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