On “The Late Show,” Colbert said a person described by Tudor Dixon during a debate last week with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must have been “totally made up” by the GOP nominee for governor. He was skeptical of her story that a Michigan man approached her complaining of an inappropriate book he found in a school library after failing to find help from Democrats, saying sarcastically: “That happened.”
But the man, Khalil Othman, told the Free Press he is an actual person and did attend the Dixon campaign rally she referred to.
“To claim that I’m not here, I don’t exist, I’m not human, that’s absolute ignorance,” Othman, 41, a father of five and former Dearborn city council candidate, told the Free Press. “If this person did his due diligence and start researching or has his team do a little bit of research of who’s this person who attended Dixon’s rally, they will be able to find my name right away easy on social media. Just Google it.”
(via Memeorandum)
[Didn’t anyone learn from the Corn Pop story? Maybe Colbert should stick to actual jokes rather than keep becoming one. — Ed]
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