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Chaz Bono Shows Fox Who’s Boss: “We Are Boycotting Fox”

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With the transgender-bashing Dr. Keith Ablow unrepentant about the malicious quackery he published on the Fox News site – hysterically urging parents not to let their children watch Chaz Bono on “Dancing With The Stars” for fear they might decide they want to change gender — Chaz is showing Ablow exactly which man is going to lead this dance.

At last week’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Fox came begging for an interview with Chaz. Bono’s agent Howard Bragman told them where to stick it. “When Chaz was on the red carpet at the Emmys last Saturday,” Bragman says, “Fox asked for an interview. I said that since a Fox person [Dr. Ablow] recommended boycotting Chaz, we are boycotting Fox.”

WATCH: Fox’s Keith Ablow On Chaz Bono: Transgenderism Not A Civil Right (Video)

Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Tufts Medical Center support the anti-transgender quack Ablow in his transbashing. Tufts University Public Relations tried to blow this reporter off by saying that Ablow has a “voluntary, unpaid appointment” at the School of Medicine. Tufts’s website, however, describes the quack as an “Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.” As for the association with Tufts Medical Center that Ablow alleges on his website, Tufts claimed Ablow isn’t associated with the hospital and would have him remove that claim from his site. The claim, however, as of this writing remains on the professional trans-basher’s site. See below for our information request to Tufts, unanswered as of publication.

Tufts University needs to come clean about whether it supports or rejects Ablow’s trans-bashing quackery. A psychiatrist superior to Ablow at the Tuft’s School of Medicine must make a public statement as to whether they agree or disagree with Ablow’s published column. How is the public to know where Tufts stands on this, if it keeps Ablow on its professional roster after he published shameful, anti-scientific, transgender-bashing hate speech on the Fox News website? We mustn’t forget, either, that Ablow is in practice as a forensic psychiatrist and quite possibly does not treat LGBTers with due impartiality when they are involved in his investigations.

READ: Dr. Keith Ablow’s Fox News Piece On Chaz Bono? Don’t Let Your Kids Read It!

We’re rooting for Chaz Bono to show up the quack Dr. Ablow as a total and utter jerk. Ablow’s peers have already gone some distance towards that goal. The American Psychiatric Association’s Dr. Jack Drescher published a rebuttal, “The Doctor is Out (of Touch).” Refuting Ablow’s hateful drivel, APA President Dr. John Oldham said, “There is no evidence that viewing a television game show with a transgender contestant would induce Gender Identity Disorder in young people.”  And PsychCentral’s Dr. John M. Grohol published an Ablow smackdown “Don’t Let Your Kids Watch Dr. Keith Ablow.”

And, we’re just absolutely thrilled about powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred’s efforts in organizing viewing and dancing parties nationwide in support of our man Chaz!

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To Kim Thurler, Tufts University Public Relations Director:

Dear Kim:

While I thank you for your efforts in getting a reply to me, the reply is non-specific and wishy-washy.

In his voluntary, unpaid appointment at the Tufts University School of Medicine, what does Dr. Keith Ablow do?

Give lectures implying that praying to God will cure gender dysphoric patients of gender dysphoria, and make them heteronormative?

That is what his article implied, and from Tufts’ response to me I must conclude that the School of Medicine would permit him to present his emotional and commercially-driven, anti-scientific opinions in a lecture.

Can you supply me with a documented record of his activity at Tufts since the time of his appointment there?

I am an investigative journalist, trying to learn exactly what is going on between Dr. Ablow and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Take the social bigotry against transgendered person out of this equation, and see what you get.  Supposing Ablow were instead a practicing dentist, and instead had published an article on the Fox news site saying that when teenagers have impacted wisdom teeth, the right thing to do is to remove their front teeth and then pray to God that the impacted molars heal.

Would Tufts continue to keep such a quack on its roster?

I’m going to give it to you straight; the current appearance is that Ablow is exploiting his association with Tufts in order to give an unjustified imprimatur of scientific respectability to his transphobic bigotry and quackery, and that Tufts is continuing its association with him, despite his quackery, because of his media successes.

You claim that Tufts does not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, yet to employ a certified psychiatrist who publicly expresses non-scientific anti-trans bigotry ipso facto creates an unsafe environment for transgendered persons at your institution. The impression frankly is, that because of Ablow’s high profile on Fox, et cetera, if Tufts had to choose between throwing a transgendered student, faculty member et cetera under the bus, and dismissing Ablow, it would throw the trans person under the bus.

You didn’t even provide me with a statement from one of Tufts’ psychiatric professionals superior to Ablow, agreeing or disagreeing with his statements about the science on gender dysphoria.

How am I supposed to know whether they agree or disagree with him?

The results of societal bigotry against trans persons are seen in such crimes as the savage, merciless beating of Chrissy Lee Polis in a Maryland McDonald’s.  The society has politicians, and as we see, even medical professionals who encourage that bigotry.

You have a public relations red hot emergency on your hands, but you are treating it as though somebody had invited you to afternoon tea.

Scott Rose

PS – Last week, your office told me it would contact Ablow to have him remove from the bio page on his website the allegedly false claim that he is “on faculty at the Tufts New England Medical Center.” Nonetheless, that claim continues to appear on Ablow’s site. I know your office pointed out, that is no longer the name of your hospital, but Ablow is still giving the public to believe that he is associated with the Tufts hospital, by whatever name you want to give it.  How am I to know what is going on?  Did you tell me he doesn’t have the association with the hospital, just to put me off?

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Ronna McDaniel Is Just a ‘Normal’ Person Who ‘Never Denied the Election’ Says Hugh Hewitt

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Right-wing talk radio show host Hugh Hewitt is facing backlash after declaring former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who was ousted after her hiring cost NBC News a tumultuous five days, a “normal” person who has “never denied the election.”

Last summer, The Washington Post‘s Philip Bump reported McDaniel “is still elevating 2020 election skepticism,” and “won’t say the election was fair.”

“I don’t think he won it fair. I don’t. I’m not going to say that,” McDaniel had said to CNN.

“CNN teased an upcoming interview between host Chris Wallace and Ronna McDaniel,” Bump wrote. “In the clip, Wallace asks McDaniel when she stopped being an ‘election denier’ — that is, someone who espouses skepticism about the validity of the election results. And, surprise! McDaniel never stopped.”

Bump also explained the danger in election denialism: “McDaniel won’t say Biden was legitimately elected because the base doesn’t want to hear it — but the base doesn’t want to hear it in part because leaders such as McDaniel won’t simply admit without qualifications that Biden won.”

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“Establishing a system in which any loss can easily be framed as illegitimate means establishing a system in which no loss is accepted as valid,” Bump continued. “It means institutionalizing the idea that elections are inaccurate gauges of public opinion and, therefore, that the winners of those elections have no mandate to serve.”

On Wednesday Hewitt, a Washington Post columnist and former Reagan White House aide, said on Fox News that McDaniel “is a fine Republican. She is not an election denier. She has never denied the election.”

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh responded to that clip.

Bullshit Hugh. With Trump, she pressured MI canvassers to not certify the results; with Trump, she pressured other state attorney’s to sue & invalidate results in MI, PA, & WI; she worked with Trump on the fake electors scheme; she lied about charges of voter fraud well after those charges had been debunked. No major party chair in American history has done more to dispute a legit election. Shame on you,” Walsh wrote.

Media Matters’ Eric Kleefeld, also responding to that clip: “Somebody who helped coordinate fake electors and passed a resolution calling Jan. 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’ is not normal, and we must at all steps refuse to treat them as such.”

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Hewitt had also told Fox News, “I don’t know who is going to keep MSNBC informed of what normal people think, because Ronna McDaniel is about as normal as they come. She’s a Michigan mom, she’s been in the job seven years. She represents the Republican Party.”

McDaniel, it could be said, does not represent the Republican Party, not the MAGA America First Republican Party of today, neither literally nor figuratively. Donald Trump engineered her ouster and installed his handpicked replacements, including his daughter-in-law and Michael Whatley, a right-wing attorney who was part of the Bush recount team during the contested 2000 presidential election.

The Atlantic’s Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), blasted Hewitt, calling him “an utter disgrace,” while adding, “shame on those like the Washington Post who showcase him.”

Adam Cohen, vice chair of Lawyers for Good Government, pointedly responded to Hewitt: “Hate to tell you this, but normal people don’t try to foment a coup, or deny the truth about election results Like Ronna McDaniel did.”

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Comer Refuses to Investigate Trump Family Member Over ‘Influence Peddling’ Allegation

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Last year House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer acknowledged former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House advisor Jared Kushner had “crossed the line” when he accepted $2 billion in foreign investment funds from the government of Saudi Arabia as he started up a private investment firm just months after leaving the White House.

Now, Chairman Comer says he will not open an investigation into any possible wrongdoing, Huffpost reports, despite top Democrats alleging Kushner engaged in “apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals.”

On Tuesday, the top Democrat on Comer’s Oversight Committee, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, and Democrat Robert Garcia, the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, formally requested Comer “convene a hearing regarding Jared Kushner’s apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals involving investments in exchange for official actions and to examine the resulting threats to our national security.”

“This Committee cannot claim to be ‘investigating foreign nationals’ attempts to target and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials’ family members by providing money or other benefits in exchange for certain actions while continuing to ignore these matters,” Raskin and Garcia wrote. “We therefore urge you to work with us to finally investigate Mr. Kushner’s receipt of billions of dollars from foreign governments in deals that appear to be quid pro quos for actions he undertook as senior White House adviser in Donald Trump’s Administration.”

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The American people are deeply concerned about these business dealings and Mr. Kushner’s apparent influence peddling. We must address
those concerns with a fair, impartial, and public process to understand the truth and to institute meaningful reforms to safeguard public confidence in our executive branch.”

The two Democrats in their letter say their “request comes in light of allegations that Jared Kushner is pursuing new foreign business deals, just as Donald Trump becomes the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency. Last year, well before these new allegations came to light, Chairman Comer had already conceded that Jared Kushner’s conduct ‘crossed the line of ethics’ and promised that the Oversight Committee would ‘have some questions for Trump and some of his family members, including Jared Kushner.'”

Raskin and Garcia paint a picture of “Kushner’s pattern of profiting off of his time in the White House.”

Citing The New York Times (apparently this article), they write, “Jared Kushner was closing in on investments in Albania and Serbia, leveraging relationships he built during his time as a senior adviser in his father-in-law’s White House. Reportedly, Mr. Kushner is considering an investment on the site of the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defense.”

“Mr. Kushner is reportedly being advised by Richard Grenell, another former senior Trump Administration official who served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany and, concomitantly, as ‘special envoy for peace negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo.’ Mr. Grenell reportedly ‘pushed a related plan’ for redevelopment of the same site during his time in the Trump Administration.”

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“In pursuing investment opportunities in Albania, Mr. Grenell and Mr. Kushner have been openly leveraging their relationship with Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania. While Commander-in-Chief, President Trump received unconstitutional payments from Prime Minister Rama and other senior Albanian government officials who spent thousands of dollars at theTrump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., over three separate stays,” Raskin and Garcia write.

They also allege, “Mr. Kushner successfully overruled State Department officials, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, to make President Trump’s first foreign trip as President to Saudi Arabia. Mr. Kushner personally intervened to inflate the value of a U.S.-Saudi arms deal and to finalize the deal President Trump signed, which was worth $110 billion. Mr. Kushner
also provided diplomatic cover and support to the Crown Prince after the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an American permanent resident and journalist. Mr. Khashoggi’s murder was assessed by American Intelligence to have been approved by the Crown Prince himself.”

Despite their extensive allegations, Chairman Comer is refusing to open an investigation.

“Unlike the Bidens, Jared Kushner has a legitimate business and has a career as a business executive that predates Donald Trump’s political career,” Comer said, as HuffPost reports. “Democrats’ latest letter is part of their playbook to shield President Biden from oversight.”

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Greene Says She Won’t Take Responsibility if Johnson Loses Speaker’s Gavel Before Election

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Despite filing a motion to vacate the chair last week, which could end Mike Johnson’s short term as Speaker, and despite pummeling him in the press, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she will take no responsibility if House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker of the House before the November election.

Appearing on right-wing media Tuesday, the far-right Georgia Republican targeted Speaker Johnson again, telling GOP voters Johnson stabbed them “in the back.”

Johnson “has a duty and responsibility to care for our conference,” Greene told Real America’s Voice. “That means not force us to vote on full-term abortion, funding the trans agenda, DEI funding, 300 million to the Ukraine war, and many other horrific far-left funding wishlist items that the Democrats were thrilled with.”

“He shouldn’t make us vote on that in order to pay our military soldiers. That’s outrageous. It’s also an election year,” she continued, “and that means that Republicans are out trying to get re-elected and he forced our Republican conference, those that voted for this basically walked the plank for him and that is outrageous.”

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After talking for several minutes about how Johnson “broke” and “violated” the rules by holding votes to keep the government from shutting down, she insisted her attacks are “not personal against Mike Johnson.”

“I filed the motion to vacate basically issuing a pink slip saying you’re going to be fired, we will not tolerate this any longer. And Republican voters all over this country agree with me,” she insisted.

In October, after Kevin McCarthy was ousted by his own party as Speaker of the House, CBS News reported its new polling “shows the American public wants the next Republican speaker to prioritize federal spending cuts, but also work across the aisle with Democrats and stand up against the ‘MAGA’ movement.”

Declaring, “Our conference needs a new Speaker of the House,” Greene insisted her actions have no effect on Republicans, who increasingly are exiting Congress early.

She also insisted that pinning a possible Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries on her is merely “twist” and “spin.”

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“This is simple math,” she said. “The more Republicans like Mike Gallagher that resign and leave early, guess what that means we have less Republicans in the House. So every time a Mike Gallagher or Ken Buck leaves that brings our members down and brings us dangerously closer to being in the minority. It’s not Marjorie Taylor Greene.”

“I am not going to be responsible for Hakeem Jeffries being Speaker of the House. I am not going to for a Democrat majority taking over our Republican majority. That lies squarely, squarely on the shoulders of these Republicans that are leaving early because they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to handle the real fight, and the responsibility that comes with leadership at the end of our Republic when our country is nearly destroyed and when our Constitution is being ran through a paper shredder. So no one is going to blame that on me.”

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