{"id":1723857,"date":"2022-11-03T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T21:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723857"},"modified":"2022-11-03T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T21:35:08","slug":"man-who-left-democratic-party-blasts-stephen-colbert-for-calling-him-made-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-left-democratic-party-blasts-stephen-colbert-for-calling-him-made-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Left Democratic Party Blasts Stephen Colbert for Calling Him \u2018Made Up\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fman-who-left-democratic-party-blasts-stephen-colbert-for-calling-him-made-up%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=1723857&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;To claim that I&#8217;m not here, I don&#8217;t exist, I&#8217;m not human, that&#8217;s absolute ignorance,&#8217; the Michigan Republican said<\/p>\n<p>    Stephen Colbert \/ YouTube   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 November 3, 2022 5:20 pm  <\/p>\n<p>A Michigan resident and former Democrat whom Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon (R.) referenced in a debate last week called out CBS late night host Stephen Colbert for doubting his existence.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 26 Colbert mocked Dixon on <em>The Late Show\u00a0<\/em>for being &#8220;an anti-choice MAGA Republican&#8221; and said she &#8220;made up&#8221; a story about a man who left the Democratic Party. Colbert&#8217;s attempt to undermine Dixon&#8217;s comments came as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D.) faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/mi\/michigan_governor_dixon_vs_whitmer-7545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tight<\/a> gubernatorial race in the historically blue Michigan. With Election Day less than a week away, Democrats and the liberal media across the country are <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/blame-the-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already bemoaning<\/a> a probable red wave.<\/p>\n<p>In the debate, Dixon relayed a conversation she had with Muslim-American Khalil Othman in which he expressed his concerns about sexually explicit books in his son&#8217;s school library.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he said,&#8221; Dixon recounted, leaving out Othman&#8217;s name, &#8220;\u2018I went to the Democrats and I said, I cannot believe that this is in there.&#8217; \u2026 He said because Democrats won&#8217;t stand up for our children and go back to the basics, \u2018I&#8217;m leaving the Democratic Party.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colbert, before playing the clip on his show, referred to the man as a &#8220;guy she totally made up.&#8221; After the clip, Colbert responded, &#8220;Ok fine. That happened,&#8221; making sarcastic quotation marks with his hands.<\/p>\n<p>But Othman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/wayne\/2022\/11\/02\/stephen-colbert-dearborn-man-dearborn\/69608126007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> to the <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em> that he is a real person and did make those comments at a Dixon rally a few days before the debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To claim that I&#8217;m not here, I don&#8217;t exist, I&#8217;m not human, that&#8217;s absolute ignorance,&#8221; Othman, a former Dearborn, Mich., city council candidate, told the<em> Free Press<\/em>. &#8220;If [Colbert] did his due diligence and start researching or has his team do a little bit of research of who&#8217;s this person who attended Dixon&#8217;s rally, they will be able to find my name right away easy on social media. Just Google it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Othman referred to a Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/khalil.othman\/posts\/pfbid0KGGf9SbWs34yEaoqH7jDVPENnMgj5bT1G6SrCDiVwALSY93NJRcKJ3sSs5Mqc5xhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>\u00a0he made with pictures from the Oct. 21 rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since immigrating to this great country almost 20 years ago, I&#8217;ve been a loyal Democrat,&#8221; Othman wrote in his Facebook post. &#8220;Never once did I ever vote Republican. However, the situation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Michigan resident and former Democrat whom Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon (R.) referenced in a debate last week called out CBS late night host Stephen Colbert for doubting his existence.<br \/>\nThe post Man Who Left Democratic Party Blasts Stephen Colbert for Calling Him \u2018Made Up\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1723860,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1723857","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}