'Hope your beeper doesn't go off,' CNN panellist tells Mehdi; gets banned

The American news channel CNN issued an apology to Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan for conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky's remark during a discussion, which the channel described as racist. Girdusky told Hasan, "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," an apparent reference to Israel targetting Hezbollah's pagers and walkie-talkies. CNN anchor Abby Phillip said Girdusky would not be "welcomed back".