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A CNN panel erupted on Monday after a Republican strategist told a former MSNBC host “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off” — a reference to an Israeli attack involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon that targeted the militant group Hezbollah. The comment came on CNN’s “NewsNight” during a discussion over racist remarks made during a rally for former President Donald Trump. Mehdi Hasan, a former MSNBC host and current editor-in-chief of Zeteo, asserted on the panel that even one such remark would’ve functionally ended the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney or John McCain. Want more break…