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Famous Jewish actor and comedian Michael Rappaport has weighed in on the “beeper” controversy over at CNN.

As previously reported, all hell broke loose on CNN late Monday after Ryan Girdusky, a conservative data analyst, responded to Islamist commentator Mehdi Hasan calling all Trump supporters “Nazis” by making a beeper joke suggesting Hasan was a terrorist.

Girdusky was subsequently banned from the leftist network, while Hasan, the pro-Hamas Islamist, was portrayed as a victim.

Rappaport, a Jewish man, was not pleased.

“This anti Jewish race hustler @mehdirhasan isn’t a victim,” he tweeted Tuesday morning. “He’s a race hustling Jew Hater who says race hustling Anti Jewish shit daily. F–k’em.”

He then proceeded to make his own beeper joker.

Look (*Language warning):

As for Girdusky, he’s since penned a Substack post explaining everything that happened from beginning to end.

The post begins with him revealing that CNN originally reached out to him in search of “new conservative voices.”

“I spoke with someone from talent,” the post reads. “We talked for a bit, and I said to them, ‘Look, if you’re looking for a Republican who apologizes for being a Republican, it’s not me.’ To their credit, they said that’s not what we are looking for; I said great and was booked on Abby Phillips’s show a few days later.”

He subsequently made four appearances on CNN, with the latest one being his fourth and last. The discussion began with the rest of CNN’s hosts and contributors, all leftists, complaining about “how racist and sexist everyone at the rally [at Madison Square Garden] was.”

“When I got up to speak, I said people in the media said everyone who attended the rally was Nazis and fascists, to which Abby [Phillip] said that was not true,” Girdusky writes in his Substack. “It was true. Hillary Clinton said it was a reenactment of the Nazi rally on CNN just days before, meaning that everyone in attendance was… you guessed it… a Nazi.”

“You can’t say that it was a fascist rally without implying that the people in attendance are fascists. That irked the shit out of me that she called me a liar on television,” he continues.

This is the point that Mehdi “chimed in” with his Nazi bull.

“Then Mehdi chimed in, saying if you don’t want to be called Nazis, then you shouldn’t… I thought, did you call us a Nazi. You?” Girdusky writes. “He said Trump was quoting Goebbels, and I interjected, ‘You, who have been called an antisemite?’ and he yelled back, ‘By you because I support Palestine.’”

“I literally have never talked about this man; I didn’t know who he was 48 hours ago, and now you’re saying I’m slinging mud at you when you just referred to me as a Nazi? It was all bullshit, and I just made a quick joke, ‘Well, I hope your beeper doesn’t explode,’” he adds.

And then all hell broke loose because God forbid he make a joke about a pro-Hamas Islamist who just called half of America “Nazis.”

“We went to commercial break, and Medhi immediately stormed off the set; Abby asked if he was leaving, and Ashley said she texted production and said I should leave,” Girdusky explains. “Abby asked me to step off-set, and I couldn’t do what I just did. I said, ‘Okay.’ They unhooked my microphone, and I apologized to the producer. I texted the talent person I spoke about above and apologized. It was never my intention to get them in trouble.”

“Within minutes of leaving the set, everyone I knew, including plenty of liberals, reached out to see if I was okay. Aside from my parents receiving threats, I was fine. I never strived to be someone on TV. I just don’t care that much. People always talk about a brand, and I guess that’s mine; I really don’t give a shit,” he adds.

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