CNN host Abby Phillip apologized Wednesday morning for inaccurately reporting that the ISIS-inspired fanatics accused of hurling bombs into a New York City crowd were targeting Mayor Zohran Mamdani – in the lefty network’s latest blunder covering the attack.
During her show “NewsNight” Tuesday evening, Phillip referred to the incident – which saw two self-radicalized Pennsylvania men allegedly hurl homemade bombs that did not detonate into a crowd – as “an attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”
I want to correct something I said last night. The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead…
“I want to correct something I said last night. The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani,” Phillip wrote in a social media post Wednesday morning.
“That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead of time. I apologize for the error.”
It’s just the network’s latest gaffe in coverage of the event, after CNN on Tuesday deleted a social media post after outraged critics flamed it for trivializing the ISIS-inspired attack – calling them two “teenagers” who entered New York City for “what could’ve been a normal day.”
