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- Republican Congressman and Iraq War Vet Claims He Also Fought ‘Over in Iran’
Rep. John James (R-MI) either drastically misspoke or broke some major news on Thursday night when he claimed that, in addition to Iraq, he also fought “in Iran.” James, who attained the rank of captain in the U.S. Army and served multiple tours of duty in the Iraq war, won Tuesday’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Michigan after receiving the endorsement of President Donald Trump. He joined Thursday’s edition of Hannity on Fox News, where the host asked him to respond to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed clinching the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the state on Tuesday. “No way, I see El-Sayed winning,” Sean Hannity told James, before alluding to a spate of wins by progressive candidates in Democratic primaries this year. “And I think you’ve got the best shot you’ve ever had to be the governor, and I think Michigan needs a change. What is your take on what has happened to the Democratic Party?” James responded by painting El-Sayed, who was born in suburban Detroit, as being on par with the “extremists” he “fought over in Iran and in Iraq”: They created a monster and now they can’t control it. And right now it’s going to be up to Republicans to answer the call again. Our party was founded to stand up against slavery and hold our nation together. And now in this day, we are being called upon to stand up against socialism and hold our state and our nation together. We are going to fight to make sure that the extremists that I fought over in Iran and over in Iraq are not going to be able to come and change our republic and strip our Constitution away from our families and futures. The U.S., as far as the public has been informed, has not deployed troops to Iran in James’s lifetime, and nothing in James’s congressional bio indicates he fought anywhere but Iraq. (During World War II, the U.S. had more than 30,000 soldiers stationed in Iran as part of the Persian Gulf Command.) Since February, the U.S. has been bombing Iran in a conflict that does not involve ground troops. Watch above via Fox News.The post Republican Congressman and Iraq War Vet Claims He Also Fought ‘Over in Iran’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - ‘Awkward’: Tony Dokoupil’s Fill-In Delivers CBS Evening News’ Best Ratin...
(Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Tony Dokoupil’s two-week summer vacation has produced an “awkward result” for CBS News, with his temporary replacement posting the CBS Evening News’ strongest weekly audience in months, according to figures cited by Oliver Darcy. As was revealed in the Thursday edition of Status News, with Darcy calling the matter “an unexpected and somewhat awkward result for CBS News,” Matt Gutman averaged 4.1 million viewers during his first week filling in for Dokoupil, marking the program’s best performance in 17 weeks and the first time the broadcast has topped the 4 million-viewer mark since late March. As Darcy noted, CBS Evening News has struggled to consistently reach that audience level since editor-in-chief Bari Weiss oversaw a major overhaul of the broadcast earlier this year, despite executives once considering it the “minimum acceptable audience” for the program. While Dokoupil hit an even 4 million viewers during the week of June 22, Status reported that he had not exceeded that threshold since averaging 4.2 million viewers during the week of March 30. The figures also seem to have fueled questions about Dokoupil taking a two-week vacation less than a year into his tenure as anchor. One source, who Darcy described as a veteran television executive, told Status, “Summer is when the second and third place networks try to make progress against the first place anchor who goes on vacation. In this case, the third place anchor took off for two weeks — a baffling move given his collapsing show — and his substitute outclassed him in the ratings.” That same source added of Doukoupil’s absence that they’d “never seen this before,” and that the situation amounts to “another dagger in Tony’s neck.” Furthermore, Darcy reported that within the CBS newsroom, employees were struck by how “likeable” and “personable” Gutman proved to be. In April, Vanity Fair Washington correspondent and former Mediaite editor-in-chief Aidan McLaughlin published a profile for which he interviewed “more than 20 current and former CBS staffers and industry insiders” about Dokoupil’s role at the network, with one correspondent describing him as a “useful idiot” in Weiss’ eyes, and another bashing him as “deeply lacking in self-awareness.”The post ‘Awkward’: Tony Dokoupil’s Fill-In Delivers CBS Evening News’ Best Ratings in Four Months first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - House Republican Pumps $1 Million Into Re-Election Bid Despite Growing GOP Calls...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is pouring $1 million into his re-election campaign as he continues to resist mounting pressure to abandon his House bid, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The outlet revealed that Miller, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse from his ex-wife and Sen. Bernie Moreno’s (R-OH) daughter, Emily Moreno, plans to loan his campaign $1 million in two separate $500,000 installments, a move that significantly bolsters his financial position as questions swirl over his political future. “I am invested in this election in every way and I will invest the resources into my campaign to win,” Miller said in a statement to the Journal about his upcoming battle against Brook Park city councilman Brian Poindexter. The Ohio Republican went on to dismiss concerns that the controversy surrounding him has made his race unwinnable, adding, “I am in this for the long haul,” and that he “know[s] there are some people that are concerned about my ability to win this race right now, but I don’t share that.” The campaign investment comes as calls for Miller to step aside have intensified within his own party. Sen. Moreno said over the weekend that the congressman should leave office and “seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake.” On Thursday, Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) called for him to drop his re-election bid. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) echoed those calls, describing Miller as a “degenerate sociopath.” Similarly, Sens. Katie Britt (R-AL), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have spoken out. Miller’s ex-wife has said that during their marriage, Miller pointed a gun at her head, threw scalding hot water at her, pushed her into a wall, and fractured their two-year-old daughter’s collarbone. The congressman denies the accusations and has filed a defamation suit. On Tuesday, he announced that he plans to “file my own paperwork” to open a House Ethics investigation into himself. While a Monday Axios report alleged that President Donald Trump called Miller to express worry about his re-election campaign, the president has publicly called him a “good person.”The post House Republican Pumps $1 Million Into Re-Election Bid Despite Growing GOP Calls to Drop Out first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Maggie Haberman Stunned by ‘Angry’ Trump’s Response to Question About Jean...CNN commentator Maggie Haberman said she was taken aback by President Donald Trump’s “shocking” refusal to say that Jeanine Pirro’s job as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is “safe.” Last Friday, Pirro moved to drop a felony charge of destruction of government property against David Hearn, a former U.S. Olympian. The Department of Justice’s criminal complaint alleged that Hearn had damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the renovation of which Trump has personally overseen. In her motion to dismiss, Pirro stated that the Department of Interior, which oversees the pool, had failed to give her the relevant information before she decided to bring the charge, and that the issues with the pool are due to a “botched installation.” Trump responded by angrily saying Pirro “choked” in the case and doubled down on his claim that Hearn and others committed acts of vandalism. On Wednesday, shortly before Trump boarded Air Force One, a reporter asked if Pirro’s job is “safe,” to which he replied, “Uh, I haven’t made a determination.” Haberman joined Thursday’s installment of The Source, where Kaitlan Collins noted that Haberman and other reporters had accompanied the president. “When you hear what’s going on with Jeanine Pirro and the president refused to tell y’all the other night, he basically said he doesn’t know if he’s gonna fire her or not,” the host said. “And to hear him answer that way was pretty remarkable.” “It was shocking,” Haberman replied. “He looked visibly angry. And granted, it was nighttime, and it was under a giant plane wing. And he spoke to us for, I think, a total of eight minutes on this trip. That was all the press got with him. But he was clearly very angry.” “With her?” Collins said. “With her,” Haberman responded. “He tried to walk it back a little bit today… but it doesn’t really matter. It’s in the air, and it’s known what happened.” Watch above via CNN.The post Maggie Haberman Stunned by ‘Angry’ Trump’s Response to Question About Jeanine Pirro: ‘It Was Shocking’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million Fine by New Mexico Judge
The penalty, imposed by a state judge, is on top of the $375 million Meta was ordered to pay by a jury that found the company misled users about the safety of its platforms. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Jesse Watters Predicts Democratic Establishment Will Accuse Progressive Candidat...Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested that the Democratic Party establishment will attempt to thwart progressive Democrats in November’s general election by ginning up sexual assault allegations against them. Progressives – including a handful of members of the Democratic Socialists of America – have scored victories in Democratic primaries across the country. The latest to do so is Abdul El-Sayed, who does not identify as a socialist, but has espoused progressive policies. On Tuesday, he defeated the establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in the U.S. Senate primary in Michigan by one point after being outspent nine to one. The lopsided figure was due in large part to a $31 million ad buy from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which says it will oppose El-Sayed’s bid against Republican Mike Rogers in November. Progressives’ success has rankled Democratic establishment figures, including James Carville, who has threatened to leave the party after some upstart Democrats campaigned with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. On Thursday’s Jesse Watters Primetime, the host predicted that the spate of leftist victories will prompt Democratic Party leadership to arrange accusations of rape against some candidates. “If Abdul wins a general in the Rust Belt, he’s gonna have street cred,” Watters said before making sure the Fox audience knows that El-Sayed is a Muslim. “And Muslim fever is gonna spread.” Elsewhere in the segment, Watters referred to the candidate as “the Michigan Muslim.” “The establishment is ordering a code red, calling this a mortal danger to the party,” the host continued. “They’ve even cobbled together a war room to do opposition research on every single commie up and down the ballot. They’re treating the commies like Republicans. So, commies, get ready to be accused of rape.” Watters then invoked Graham Platner, the former Democratic Senate nominee in Maine who withdrew from the race after a woman accused him of rape. “Platner,” he added. “Sound familiar?” Watch above via Fox News.The post Jesse Watters Predicts Democratic Establishment Will Accuse Progressive Candidates of ‘Rape’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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