The media’s Hasan Piker obsession is letting Republican Mike Rogers off the hook

‘Why aren’t reporters asking Rogers whether he disavows [Lorenzo] Sewell’s description of Islam as a “death cult”?’ Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Hasan Piker.

Turn on cable news. Pick up a newspaper. Log on to Twitter. It doesn’t seem to matter where you get your political news: for the past month, the leftist Twitch streamer has become one of the dominant subjects of coverage, conversation and controversy surrounding the crucial Michigan Senate race between the Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and the Republican Mike Rogers.