{"id":1722738,"date":"2022-11-03T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722738"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:33:47","slug":"michigans-largest-newspaper-rebuts-stephen-colbert-over-false-attack-on-gop-gov-candidate-tudor-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigans-largest-newspaper-rebuts-stephen-colbert-over-false-attack-on-gop-gov-candidate-tudor-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan\u2019s Largest Newspaper Rebuts Stephen Colbert Over False Attack On GOP Gov Candidate Tudor Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigans-largest-newspaper-rebuts-stephen-colbert-over-false-attack-on-gop-gov-candidate-tudor-dixon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Michigan\u2019s largest newspaper fact checked leftist comedian Stephen Colbert, host of \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d for a false claim that he made about Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>At a debate last week against Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Dixon said, \u201cI had a gentleman come up to me just a few nights ago, and he said, \u2018I found content in my school library describing how to have sex to my son.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to the Democrats and I said, \u2018I cannot believe that this is in there.\u2019 \u2026 He said \u2018just a few weeks ago, not only was I a Democrat, but I was running for office as a Democrat,&#8217;\u201d Dixon continued. \u201cHe said because Democrats won\u2019t stand up for our children and go back to the basics, \u2018I\u2019m leaving the Democratic Party.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDixon\u2019s not the only one worried about this issue,\u201d Colbert mockingly responded. \u201cSo is this guy she totally made up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the man, Khalil Othman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/wayne\/2022\/11\/02\/stephen-colbert-dearborn-man-dearborn\/69608126007\/\">told<\/a> the Detroit Free Press that he is real, his story is real, and his switch to the Republican Party is real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo claim that I\u2019m not here, I don\u2019t exist, I\u2019m not human, that\u2019s absolute ignorance,\u201d Othman, 41, said. \u201cIf this person did his due diligence and start researching or has his team do a little bit of research of who\u2019s this person who attended Dixon\u2019s rally, they will be able to find my name right away easy on social media. Just Google it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a rally for Dixon a couple of weeks ago in Flat Rock, Othman told his story to the crowd about why he decided to become a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Khalil Othman. I came all the way from Dearborn, Michigan. I\u2019m here along with two parents, concerned parents \u2026 against these sexually explicit books,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI am a proud Muslim American who expresses my values and concerns all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDearborn has been voting Democrat blue for the last decade or two decades. But not anymore,\u201d he added. \u201cOn behalf of myself and my family, I guarantee you for sure that my family and my friends will vote for Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Othman, said he was \u201ca loyal Democrat\u201d for approximately 20 years ago after immigrating from the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever once did I ever vote Republican,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHowever, the situation with the sexually explicit material in the schools was for me a bridge too far. When it comes to my kids and my family, I will not budge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The race for the governor\u2019s mansion in Michigan is tight headed into next week\u2019s election with polls showing that Dixon is within a couple of points of Whitmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan\u2019s largest newspaper fact checked leftist comedian Stephen Colbert, host of \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d for a false claim that he made about Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon. At a debate last week against Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Dixon said, \u201cI had a gentleman come up to me just a few nights ago, and he said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1722741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}