The now-banned conservative commentator who told a fellow CNN guest that he hopes his "beeper doesn't go off," took to social media to defend his statement as "a joke."
During a heated exchange, Ryan James Girdusky told Muslim broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, a Guardian US columnist, that he hoped Hasan's "beeper doesn't go off" — a comment referencing Israel's recent targeting of Hezbollah fighters with exploding pagers. Hasan responded immediately, asking if Girdusky was implying he should be killed.
