Where, oh where, would Democrats be without their Mother Confessor?
You know - Kristen Welker.
It's the most curious thing how this magic works for them in Welker's mystical healing presence.
Democrats can hold forth at length with Welker's soothing encouragement. Even those long considered among the party's biggest morons sound like statesmen when they can blabber unchallenged. Maybe with just a little nudge here and there from their helpful hostess to keep them focused.
While @BonillaJL noted Kristen Welker interrupted and debated Sen. Tim Scott, this is the contrast. Welker asked Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen some substantive questions about the DSA, but look at how he can uncork a minute-long answer without interruption. The double standard should be obvious.
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) August 24, 2026
The double standard should be obvious.
Her face says, 'Do tell me more, you charismatic devil.' And Van Hollen laps it up.
As opposed to what Welker's face looks like when it's a Republican of any note in the chair opposite her.
The contortions are pretty pronounced.
Left: Welker interviewing the president Right: Welker interviewing Hasan Piker's best bro NBC "News" https://t.co/2GGraaVbiE
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 11, 2026
Democrats are fully aware they can come on her show at any given point to earnest looks and questions framed with entreating tones, and just confess sins or completely forget what they ever said or wrote.
The Michigan Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate is having a bit of a spell at the moment, and so it was probably time for him to make another appearance in Welker World, this time face to face.
She looked thrilled, and the normally cocky Abdul El-Sayed looked sheepish and humble to be there.
Oh, the magic of it all.
Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats must win midterms by 'massive numbers': Full interview https://t.co/jsvZny53Jw https://t.co/kbRxeugUMv
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 11, 2026
And didn't they get straight to work on the rehabilitation process, trying to whip some focus into the lad while wiping the slate clean of his earlier, youthful faux pas.
First and foremost was clearing the air about the unfortunate comments a much younger El-Sayed had written concerning the only living thing Democrats have that is close to a sacred icon - Barack Obama. The nervy young turd had actually criticized the former Lightbringer in print some years ago - and thank God, because there's a built-in and playable 'youthful exuberance' excuse card available only to Democrats. A good portion of this arranged confessional appearance was meant to soothe whatever ruffled feathers remained before Obama arrived to campaign for El-Sayed.
Fourteen years ago, Abdulrahman El-Sayed (he didn't mind using his whole name so much then, either) (weird, no?) wrote a scathing little op-ed for the HuffPo about Obama.
In 2008, like many young progressives, I supported President Obama with the fervor of the converted. He was so magnanimous in his support for all the right causes, so captivating with his prose, and so fresh in his perspective that I believed that his election would actually catalyze a new dawn in American politics, one of justified hope and substantiated change.
The jubilation of his 2008 election will forever live with me, like so many others in my generation. But for me, that memory will serve not as a reminder of the history we made that night -- but of the silly emotions of a naïve young man who didn't understand that hope and change required more than flowery prose and a winning smile.
Not so bad, huh? Until he calls Barry out for being a bag of wind.
...Instead, I realize that I have little hope because there has been less change.
Our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president has expanded an aimless "war on terror" (although under a new name) to Pakistan and Yemen. Millions in those countries are haunted by the constant buzz of drones overhead threatening to strike them or their loved ones, which has perpetuated a climate of American hate, distrust and destruction.
At home, our economy continues to stagnate; its victims are so many of my peers who had also invested in "hope and change" four years ago, who cannot find meaningful work. Our civil liberties have never been as commuted -- the realities of living in a country where the president can freely order the murder of Americans on foreign soil. As a Muslim ethnic minority, I feel no more dignified, no more accepted as cops throughout the country have usurped my right to walk the streets freely without fearing unjustified interference. Inequality has accelerated, and the divide between the haves and have-nots in our country has never been starker.
And El-Sayed's casting that vote for Obama's reelection was a choice, not a victory. He even dares to use the word 'blunders' to describe Obama's administrative agenda and lack of solid accomplishments.
...And then there's the problem that we really like the idea of Obama. After all, he's a third culture kid -- the child of a Kenyan immigrant and raised in Hawaii. His story is so representative of the America we hope to leave our children: a post-racial, post-establishment utopia where any kid, no matter how crazy his name or his background, can be elected president.
We then excuse our dissonance and our want to like Obama by kidding ourselves that he has made good on at least some of his promises. But has he? Take healthcare, his prized accomplishment, for example: it's a watered-down reform that kowtows to the interests of healthcare lobbies before it provides meaningful, secure access to healthcare for our society's most desperate.
We also like to excuse his political blunders as the result of having had to pander to the right given the scepter of a reelection bid -- an excuse that's patently flawed given his famous argument that he'd rather have been a "really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."
So let's be clear, for progressives who care about peace, prosperity, civil liberties, and the future of our country, Obama's reelection last night was no victory. It was the rock we chose over the hard place.
It's a pretty brutal takedown, and it sounds like the progressive who wrote it was almost a conservative, since many of the complaints are similar.
Ah, and now?
Well, El-Sayed is in a chair specifically to make amends, and he refers to the author of that piece as 'the person who wrote those op-eds...when I was younger.'
That should make it all better.
And look at Welker's face. Gracious.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: “I Am So Grateful To Have Been A Young Man In My Twenties With Barack Hussein Obama As President”; Michigan Senate Candidate Reflects On Obama’s Influence During NBC’s Meet The Press Interview Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed reflected on former President Barack Obama’s influence on his political ambitions during an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Asked about potential awkwardness surrounding a visit given his past criticism, El-Sayed said he had grown since writing critical op-eds in his younger years and learned how difficult political change can be. El-Sayed credited Obama’s presidency with changing what he believed was possible in American politics, explaining that before Obama’s rise, he did not think someone with a name like his could run for office. His comments come as Democrats debate the party’s future, including the influence of Democratic Socialists, while Republicans and MAGA supporters rally behind President Donald Trump ahead of the midterms.
— News is Dead (@newsisdead) October 11, 2026
...Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed reflected on former President Barack Obama’s influence on his political ambitions during an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Asked about potential awkwardness surrounding a visit given his past criticism, El-Sayed said he had grown since writing critical op-eds in his younger years and learned how difficult political change can be.
El-Sayed credited Obama’s presidency with changing what he believed was possible in American politics, explaining that before Obama’s rise, he did not think someone with a name like his could run for office. His comments come as Democrats debate the party’s future, including the influence of Democratic Socialists, while Republicans and MAGA supporters rally behind President Donald Trump ahead of the midterms.
It just was so sickeningly scripted.
...When asked about his previous criticisms, El-Sayed replied, “We’ve lived through two Trump terms now, so, look: I know that President Obama was handed a really difficult set of circumstances, and he did his best. I also want to step back. You know, Kristen, are your parents still with us?”
After the host answered affirmatively, he continued, “Mine are too, and I think about my dad. I wouldn’t have my life but for my dad’s efforts. So grateful for him. At the same time, there’s a lot of things about my dad I would do differently, right? And it’s because when you intensely appreciate somebody who’s done so much to make something that you’re doing possible, you’re both going to see the best of them and you’re also going to see the things that you want to change.”
“I can’t say how much I appreciate President Obama,” he added, before offering effusive praise of the 44th president of the United States. “And it’s because he was the president of my 20s. I mean, it was the first time I ever saw myself in politics … He showed me something of myself I would never have seen without him.”
BARF
And, yes - you know it got worse. Welker asked the inevitable progressive version of 'What's your favorite color?'
IS AMERICA READY FOR A MUSLIM PRESIDENT?
For some reason, NBC's Kristen Welker is asking Abdul El-Sayed about running for president. "Do you think that America is ready for a Muslim president?" El-Sayed: "I think Michigan is ready for a Muslim Senator." Welker: "But you don't rule out the possibility?" El-Sayed: "I think Michigan is ready for a Muslim Senator. I have no intention of ever running for president." Hasan Piker's best bud hasn't even won his election yet and Welker is already priming him for a presidential run.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 11, 2026
This was, of course, after letting him slide on the 'Does the Muslim senate candidate have any ties to Muslim terrorist organizations?'
MUSLIM CANDIDATE: 'No.'
WELKER: 'Okay. Now, how awesome are you?'
Abdul El-Sayed is flat out lying about having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization. El-Sayed lying about his terrorist ties is a MASSIVE national security threat ahead of an election. https://t.co/i7EgvhatnE
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 11, 2026
El-Sayed threw in some sap for Jewish souls, too. Someone must have told him his progressive Jewish support was starting to waffle, so he had to make nice for a minute.
SORRY ABOUT THAT 'HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE' COMMENT
Perhaps it wasn't 'the right time. How clumsy of me.'
....Welker noted that El-Sayed faced backlash in March after an attack at a Michigan synagogue, when he condemned the shooting but also said that "hurt people hurt people" while addressing that the attacker had lost relatives in an Israeli strike on Lebanon. The comment drew criticism from some Jewish residents of Michigan, including Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel.
El-Sayed later apologized, saying "What I was trying to do was offer context for why it happened, but it wasn't the time for context."
El-Sayed again apologized during the NBC interview and said he spoke with Sen. Slotkin, who is Jewish, about the remark.
"I regret anytime, you know, if I step on somebody's grief, of course I regret that. And I really wish I'd thought about how somebody would have felt hearing that, and thought twice about making those comments," El-Sayed said.
That's all it took.
@UngaTheGreat She's gobsmacked. https://t.co/mCcB4svQG8
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 11, 2026
Mission accomplished.
All is forgiven, and the past as well as the coast is clear.
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