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- GOP Congressman Blames ‘Stupid’ Homophobic Post On Staffer After Backlash
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Republican Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) blamed his homophobic post on a staffer on Tuesday, calling it “stupid” after widespread backlash from both sides of the aisle. Ogles posted to X Tuesday with a shocking message for Pride Month: “Homosexuality has no place in America.” Many members of his own party were quick to call out their colleague, leading Ogles to delete the post later in the day. “Homosexuality exists. In America. In fact Andy, you have family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and constituents who are gay and lesbian,” replied Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) to the post. “It doesn’t make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American. What an absolutely idiotic statement to make,” added Lawler, who also called Ogles a “f*cking idiot” when asked about the post by TMZ. Meghan McCain invoked President Donald Trump’s openly gay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, writing: “You gonna say this to Scott Bessent’s face? Or you gonna slide back into the sewer pits where you live?” Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), conservative influencer Link Lauren, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), and a slew of media figures dually condemned the post. Hours later, Ogles stopped short of directly apologizing for the post, instead calling it “hurtful” while passing the buck to an aide he claimed had been “reprimanded.” “Earlier today while working on the farm, my phone began going crazy because of a post made by a member of my comms team,” he wrote. “The post was stupid, hurtful and a complete distraction from my America First focus. The employee has been reprimanded.” The move echoes one made by Trump earlier this year, when he posted a racist video showing former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed onto the bodies of apes. The post was first left up, then deleted, and then blamed on a staffer. “President Trump didn’t see the video (legitimately didn’t), a staffer posted it,” an administration official told Politico’s Sophia Cai. Ogles posted similar remarks about American Muslims a few months prior, writing, “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.” That post did not receive Republican backlash. The congressman’s conduct has posed problems in the past, going so far as to unite House Democrats and Republicans last year when they condemned Ogles for posting “Wanted” posters for judges outside of his office on Capitol Hill. Ogles was also under federal criminal investigation… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Scott Pelley Speaks Out After 60 Minutes Firing, Alleges Management Told Him to ...
LEFT: Bari Weiss (Photo by Alberto E. Tamargo/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) RIGHT: Scott Pelley (Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) CBS News fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, hours after he and the organization’s leadership met to discuss his future with the network. The day before, in a staff meeting led by new 60 Minutes Executive Producer Nick Bilton, a former tech columnist with no experience producing television news programs, Pelley challenged his new boss, partly over the stewardship of CBS News under Bari Weiss. “In the extraordinary back and forth, an impassioned Pelley relentlessly pressed Bilton on Weiss’ intentions for the storied newsmagazine, pointed out that he has no relevant experience to helm television’s most prestigious news program, grilled Bilton on what he knew about the firings, and more,” Oliver Darcy of Status reported on Monday. On Tuesday, CBS News fired Pelley. “Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” wrote Bilton in a letter to Pelley obtained by Mediaite. “Yesterday’s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.” Shortly after news of the firing broke, Pelley spoke to The New York Times via phone: “I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” Mr. Pelley said. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” Pelley told the Times that Weiss refused to answer his questions about why she had fired correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega last week. He said Weiss’s behavior “was cold and callous and beneath the dignity of CBS News.” In a statement obtained by Darcy at Status, Pelley alleged that management had told him to “inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.” He did not elaborate: Statement of Scott Pelley There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Election-Objecting Ted Cruz Says Democrats Don’t ‘Believe in Democracy’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who famously refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, charged that Democrats do not “believe in democracy.” The senator appeared on Tuesday’s edition of Hannity on Fox News, where he blasted Democrats for backing Graham Platner in the U.S. Senate race in Maine. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had recruited Governor Janet Mills (D), 78, to challenge Sen. Susan Collins this November, but Platner, a Marine Corps veteran and oysterman, surged ahead of her in the polls. Platner has been dogged by revelations about his tattoo that used Nazi iconography and his distasteful comments about U.S. soldiers. Most recently, it was reported that he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with multiple women despite being married. Maine’s Democratic primary is June 9, but Mills has already suspended her campaign, making Platner the presumptive nominee. Cruz railed against Platner and his Democratic supporters, accusing them of lacking “principle.” “I don’t think principle matters to them anymore,” he said. “All they care about is power. And they don’t, I believe, believe in democracy. This is the same Democrat party that was willing to prop Joe Biden up and run him as a candidate even though they knew he was no longer mentally capable to do the job. This is the same Democrat party that removed Donald Trump from the ballot in multiple states. That’s how little they think of democracy.” When Congress convened on Jan. 6, 2021 to certify the results of the 2020 election, Cruz objected to Arizona’s results. He was one of 147 Republican lawmakers who refused to vote to certify the election overall. Trump had falsely claimed the contest was rigged against him, and Cruz went along with the claim. During the 2016 GOP primary, Cruz and Trump repeatedly exchanged insults. The senator called Trump “a sniveling coward” after the future president suggested Cruz’s wife is ugly. Watch above via Fox News.The post Election-Objecting Ted Cruz Says Democrats Don’t ‘Believe in Democracy’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - BREAKING: New 60 Minutes Boss Fires Scott Pelley in Scorched-Earth Letter: ‘Yo...
Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images Veteran anchor Scott Pelley was fired by CBS News on Tuesday, a day after his explosive meeting with new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton. Bilton announced Pelley’s termination in a letter addressed to the longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, obtained by Mediaite. “Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” wrote Bilton. “Yesterday’s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.” The move from the new EP comes just a day after his first meeting with 60 Minutes staff was hijacked by Pelley, who demanded to know more details on Thursday’s firings, which included Bilton’s predecessor, Tanya Simon, correspondent Cecilia Vega, and the show’s long-time Executive Editor Draggan Mihailovich. The former anchor of CBS Evening News also took aim at Weiss, claiming she had “no qualifications for her job” and countering Bilton’s claim that the new chief “loves 60 Minutes” with a sharp interjection. “She’s murdering ’60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she’s doing exactly that,” said Pelley. “She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?” Pelley also criticized Bilton directly, telling him he “would never be welcomed” at the show and calling out Bilton’s “slender” qualifications for the job. The new EP claimed that he had hoped to make peace at a meeting with Pelley on Tuesday, but that effort was not successful– an outcome reported on earlier in the day, leading to rumors of Pelley’s imminent departure. Bilton invoked the meeting yet again in a staff memo announcing Pelley’s departure. “I know how much Scott meant to many of you, and I don’t say this lightly. I made repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend, and this afternoon I tried to find common ground,” wrote Bilton. “That was not the path Scott chose.” In the memo, Bilton claimed his biggest regret was that “this situation interfered”… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Jesse Watters Says the ‘Biggest Qualification’ for Latino Candidate in Calif...Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed that leading California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra’s (D) “biggest qualification” is “the sound of his name.” Watters made his comment on Tuesday’s Jesse Watters Primetime ahead of polls closing in California’s primary race to replace Governor Gavin Newsom (D). Baccer, former HHS Secretary for President Joe Biden, is the leading Democrat in the polls alongside Tom Steyer, both of whom shot up after Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) resigned from his House seat and suspended his campaign for California governor after a wave of accusations of sexual assault and harassment. “On the Democrat side, there’s a big oil billionaire who basically bought his way to the top,” said Watters of Steyer. “He’s up against a guy whose biggest qualification is the sound of his name. In a state that is half Hispanic, Xavier Becerra.” The host stopped short of spelling his point out directly– namely, that the former California Attorney General is primarily suited for the governor’s job because his ethnicity matches that of many voters. Watters’ characterization of Becerra as “half Hispanic” is misleading. According to the Washington Post, Becerra’s father, Manuel, was “born in the United States but raised in Tijuana, Mexico” and “left school around sixth grade, crossing the border with his relatives to find work picking crops in the fields of California.” His mother, Maria, was born in Mexico. Becerra has faced criticism from some within his party who expressed shock over his rise in the polls, with one House Democrat telling Politico, “If you took a gun to my head and asked me, ‘Who are Xavier Becerra’s friends — or who were they?’ I couldn’t tell you. I don’t know.” Watters’ focus on qualifications comes as many within the Republican party on Tuesday called out the lack of experience Housing Finance Agency boss Bill Pulte has in the intelligence field after President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to appoint him as acting director of National Intelligence. His appointment drew sharp criticism from members of both parties, with many noting Pulte’s limited credentials. Watch above via Fox News.The post Jesse Watters Says the ‘Biggest Qualification’ for Latino Candidate in California ‘Is the Sound of His Name’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- JUST IN: U.S. and Iran Exchange Fire as Situation Deteriorates Further
U.S. Central Command via AP The United States and Iran exchanged fresh fire on Tuesday amid a ceasefire and what President Donald Trump has described as ongoing negotiations. U.S. Central Command posted a public statement following videos popping up from the region showing Iranian missiles being launched and intercepted. According to the statement, U.S. forces successfully intercepted multiple missiles, but also conducted “self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East.” CENTCOM said Iran targeted “regional neighbors,” but no missiles hit their intended targets. They called out Iran’s “unwarranted” aggression during a ceasefire agreement. https://t.co/ASAXrUeRGd — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 2, 2026 Check out the statement below: U.S. forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2. Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by U.S. and Bahrain air defense forces. Moments earlier, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters. American forces also conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island. No U.S. personnel were harmed. CENTCOM forces remain vigilant and ready to defend against unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire. In a followup statement, CENTCOM blasted Iran, claiming they “struck U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and a U.S. air base in the region with missiles and drones today.” “TRUTH: All Iranian attacks on American forces failed. U.S. forces remain vigilant and ready to defend against unwarranted Iranian aggression,” their statement reads. CLAIM: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims they struck U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and a U.S. air base in the region with missiles and drones today. FALSE. TRUTH: All Iranian attacks on American forces failed. U.S. forces remain vigilant and ready to… pic.twitter.com/KuYzaENUqI — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) June 2, 2026 Kuwait under attack of ballistic missiles by the Islamic Republic of Iran as the IRGC and US clash in Hormuz pic.twitter.com/L1Mm3GVLIU — Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) June 2, 2026 … [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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