Group behind Emmys defends nomination of Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda
NewsFeed The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has defended its nomination of AJ+ contributor Bisan Owda for an Emmy after a pro-Israeli non-profit asked them to rescind it. The nomination is for the documentary, ‘It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive.’ Published On 22 Aug 202422 Aug 2024 Adblock test (Why?)
Flashback: Oprah Winfrey once called Trump a ‘folk hero,’ a contrast to comments made during the DNC
In a 1988 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the celebrity talk show host appeared to be amazed at Americans’ “fascination” with Donald Trump and even described him as a “folk hero” for being so popular. “Various celebrities in New York, because it was the opening concert in New York, and there were all kinds of celebrities – very, very famous people coming in to be seated. When you were seated, you got the loudest applause. People stood up and roared and cheered when you walked in,” Winfrey said during the interview. “Why is that? What is this fascination?” “I don’t know, maybe I should be a rockstar,” Trump replied. “They thought you were going to moonwalk,” Oprah quipped. After Trump pondered his popularity with Oprah, she also referred to him as a “folk hero.” The unearthed interview came to light a day after Winfrey made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, during which she railed against Trump, her former friend. OPRAH WINFREY MAKES SURPRISE DNC APPEARANCE TO RAIL AGAINST MAN SHE ONCE CONSIDERED RUNNING FOR OFFICE WITH “We know all the old tricks and tropes that are designed to distract us from what actually matters,” Winfrey told those gathered at Chicago’s United Center. “But we are beyond ridiculous tweets and lies and foolery. These are complicated times, people, and they require adult conversation. And I welcome those conversations because civilized debate is vital to democracy, and it is the best of America.” Winfrey also took aim at comments Trump made last month, when he told supporters they “won’t have to vote anymore” if they elect him because he will fix all their problems. “Now, there’s a certain candidate that says if we just go to the polls this one time, that we’ll never have to do it again. Well, you know what? You’re looking at a registered Independent who’s proud to vote again and again and again because I’m an American. And that’s what Americans do. Voting is the best of America.” FORMER BIDEN SPOKESPERSON SPARKS LIBERAL ANGER FOR DEFENDING TRUMP REMARKS ABOUT FUTURE ELECTIONS Shortly after her speech, the Trump campaign posted a thank you letter that Winfrey wrote to Trump in 2000, suggesting he would be a good president and they would make a good team working together in politics. “I might have thought it back then,” Winfrey said in a 2023 interview. “I might have thought it 23 years ago.” Fox News Digital reached out to Winfrey for comment but did not receive an immediate response prior to publication. “This is typical. Many of the liberal celebrities attacking President Trump now used to love him,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign national press secretary, told Fox News Digital. “They only pretend to hate him now because he’s a Republican, and because they are phonies like Kamala Harris.”
RFK Jr’s running mate says Democrats are ‘terrified’ their campaign may join forces with Trump
RFK Jr’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, shared a post to X claiming that Democrats are “terrified” their campaign may endorse Donald Trump. In a post on X on Thursday, the independent VP pick said “My old Dem buddies have been flooding me with frantic calls, texts, and emails. Unlike Ro, I wouldn’t dream of airing those private conversations publicly, but the message is clear: they’re terrified of the idea of our movement joining forces with Donald Trump.” RFK JR.’S RUNNING MATE SAYS DEMOCRATS ‘OBSTRUCTED A FAIR ELECTION,’ ‘FULLY SUPPORTS’ WORKING WITH TRUMP “When I point out what the Democratic Party and their super PACs have done to sabotage our campaign, their response is always, ‘but Trump is worse.’ Here’s an idea: stop suing us. Let us debate. Quit rigging the media and the polls. It’s a simple formula, people—get with it,” the post concluded. A source close to the campaign told the NY Post on Thursday that RFK Jr’s campaign suspension will be announced Friday in Phoenix, Arizona. Shanahan joined Fox News @ Night on Tuesday, saying “You know, it’s Bobby’s decision. I came into this supporting him wholeheartedly to win this election. And I have to say, there’s only one party that has obstructed fair, a fair election for us. And unfortunately, it was the Democratic Party. They’ve done everything they can, including creating PACs to prevent us from being able to have ballot access.” TRUMP SAYS HE WOULD BE ‘HONORED’ BY RFK JR. ENDORSEMENT, SAYS DEMOCRATS ‘TREATED HIM VERY BADLY The Kennedy/Shanahan ballot has faced uphill climbs in order to get on the ballot state-by-state nationwide. Most recently, it faced a roadblock in New York State due to a residency dispute. In a six-way poll conducted by Fox News Polls from earlier this month, RFK Jr holds 6% of the national vote. That is down from 10% in July from the same pollsters and an all-time high of 15% support in November 2023. On Thursday, former President Trump told FOX + Friends that RFK Jr “is a very good person. If he endorsed me, I would be honored by it. I would be very honored by it. He really has his heart in the right place. He is a respected person.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Nicole Shanahan did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Why this former Republican presidential candidate is at the Democrats’ 2024 convention
CHICAGO — It’s a sight you wouldn’t expect to see. A longtime Republican who ran for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination making the rounds at the Democratic National Convention. But that’s the case for former two-term Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. “I’m doing media. I’m not here to endorse the Democratic nominee,” Hutchison said in an interview this week with Fox News Digital. “This is my first Democratic convention.” CLICK HERE FOR FOX NEWS UPDATES FROM THE DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION But Hutchinson, who waged an unsuccessful long-shot bid last year for the Republican nomination, shared, “I did go on the floor to see the Arkansas Democratic delegation here, and I want you to know that lightning didn’t strike and so everybody was safe.” Asked if he felt out of place among a sea of Democrats, Hutchinson said “a little bit, but at the same time, this is well reflective of American democracy that I’m greeted with a friendly fashion… This is a good part of politics that you can disagree but still be here and be welcomed.” The former governor remains a very vocal GOP critic of former President Trump, who crushed Hutchinson and the rest of the field of challengers to cruise to the party’s nomination. Asked how he’ll cast his ballot in the presidential election, Hutchinson said he’s going to “write in a candidate, a good Republican candidate. It’s important to me to be a Republican and support the Republican cause.” But he added, “We need to define it differently than Donald Trump and the rule of law is important to me. I said on the debate stage I’m not going to vote for a convicted felon. That still holds true.” THE VICE PRESIDENT’S BIG NIGHT AT THE DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION Since Vice President Kamala Harris a month ago replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, Trump has repeatedly slammed the vice president as a far-left politician. Hutchinson, pointing to a controversial plan by Harris to ban price gouging, said that in order to appeal to independent voters and dissatisfied Republicans, the vice president needs “to persuade them [voters] that her economic policy is not so far left and the argument about price controls is doing damage to her. “She needs to make clear that when she talks about her economic policy it’s a fight against price gouging, which attorneys general do all across America, and not price controls. She needs to make that clear either in her convention speech or elsewhere.” He emphasized that “if you want to get independents, if you want to get swing voters and even some Republicans, you’ve got to show an economic policy that makes sense for America and doesn’t scare people.” Hutchinson, a former federal prosecutor who later served in Congress and in Cabinet-level positions in President George W. Bush’s administration, dropped out of the White House race in January, the day after he finished a distant sixth in the Iowa caucuses. Asked whether there’s another political chapter in his long career, he said, “I hope so.” “But right now I really want to teach. I’ll be teaching at the University of Arkansas Law School next semester. I’ll be doing some things on college campuses beyond that,” he shared. “We’ll see what happens in the future.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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On Trump calling Harris ‘comrade,’ top Democrat surrogates argue ‘that boat doesn’t float’
CHICAGO – Former President Trump has repeatedly argued that Kamala Harris is an ultra-liberal and has insulted the vice president as “comrade Kamala” in the month since she replaced President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket. But top Harris surrogates argue that the attacks from the former president won’t fly with American voters. “That boat doesn’t float. It just doesn’t float,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., told Fox News Digital on Thursday, hours ahead of the vice president’s nomination acceptance speech on the final evening of the Democratic National Convention, which is being held in Chicago. Booker, a leading ally of Harris in the Senate, pointed to legislation he has co-authored with the vice president that they have successfully ushered through Congress and into law. HARRIS DODGING FLIP-FLOP ATTACKS AS FACELESS SURROGATES FLIP KEY POSITIONS: ‘PLAYING POLITICS’ “I know the things we’ve worked on together. And it’s not sexy stuff. It’s how you clean up the environment, so less people are dying of cancer. It’s how you help farmers out. . . . There’s so many pragmatic things that she’s worked on, and a lot of it is bipartisan,” Booker said. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S BIG NIGHT AT THE DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION Booker also charged that Trump “is the barrier to pragmatic problem-solving. Kamala Harris is the antedote.” First-term Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a rising star in the Democratic Party, was also asked about Trump’s efforts to paint Harris as a far-left politician. “I have learned not to spend much time listening to Donald Trump’s foolishness,” Moore said. Moore predicted that “what we’re going to hear from the vice president tonight, is actually a real vision of how we’re impacting everyday working families.” HARRIS FILLS THE ARENA WHERE THE GOP HELD THEIR CONVENTION A MONTH AGO And he argued that “what we’re hearing from Donald Trump is insults. So I think people are going to make the decision that that’s not the America they want to live in. That the America we hope for is bigger and better and greater than that. And so that’s why I’m confident that Kamala Harris is going to win in November.” Two-term Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who was considered to be on the longer list of potential Harris running mates, told Fox News that he’ll be out on the campaign trail on behalf of Harris during the stretch run to the November election. “I’m going to be going to some swing states and speaking to Democrats and also to Independents, in Arizona for example. That’s just one of the many places that I’ll be,” Pritzker told Fox News Digital on Thursday. And Pritzker will also be campaigning on behalf of Harris and down-ballot Democrats on Labor Day in swing state New Hampshire, which Fox News was first to report last week. The governor emphasized that “we’ve got to make sure that people understand that this election is the most important election of our lifetimes. And I mean that literally.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
JD Vance claims Harris border policies ‘lost thousands of innocent children’ to sex and human trafficking
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, surrounded by law enforcement supporters at a Georgia campaign event on Thursday, claimed Vice President Kamala Harris’ border policies have resulted in the federal government having “lost thousands of innocent children” to sex and human trafficking. Vance appeared to be referencing a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report released earlier this week. As of May 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had not served notices to appear on more than 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children, “who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date,” according to the DHS watchdog report. An audit revealed ICE transferred more than 448,000 unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the border illegally from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all unaccompanied migrant children who were released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) custody during that time frame and who did not appear as scheduled in immigration court, according to the DHS inspector general’s office. ICE reported more than 32,000 unaccompanied minor children failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from fiscal years 2019 to 2023, the report adds. OBAMA SPEECH TO SECURE BORDER WITHOUT ‘TEARING’ KIDS FROM PARENTS OMITS SOMBER DHS REPORT ON MISSING MIGRANTS On the same day Harris is to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, Vance campaigned alongside law enforcement in Valdosta, Georgia, before taking questions from reporters. One referenced how the speeches Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention centered on the “human aspect of immigration,” and included an address from a DACA recipient. “As a husband of someone who was a daughter of immigrants, how do you look at the deportation plan that Trump… will put in place? Specifically, the detention of families and children?” the reporter asked. Vance clarified that he is “married to the daughter of legal immigrants to this country, people who respected the country enough to follow the rules before they came.” “You hear Democrats say this a lot, and a couple speakers of the Democratic convention say that Donald Trump wants to separate families, and I don’t know how they can say that with a straight face,” Vance continued. TRUMP TEAM CALLS OUT WALZ FOR ‘WEIRD FLEX’ AFTER VEILED VANCE REFERENCE AT DNC “Our government, under the policies of Kamala Harris, has lost thousands of innocent children to sex trafficking, to drug trafficking, to human trafficking,” Vance said. “The party that believes in separating parents from their children is Kamala Harris, because that’s what the open border has done. It’s separated American citizens from their children. It’s separated a lot of illegal aliens from their children. It’s not good either way.” “I don’t blame these poor children who are being sex-trafficked and drug trafficking by the Mexican drug cartels,” he said. “But I don’t want to pursue policies that’s going to make it easier for the drug cartels to take advantage of those children. We ought to pursue policies that’s going to make it harder on the drug cartels, go to war against those drug cartels, don’t facilitate their sex trafficking and their drug trafficking.” Fox News Digital reached out to the vice president’s office and the Harris campaign for comment, but they did not immediately respond. Vance wrapped his remarks with a final message to those who have entered the United States illegally. “Our message to illegal aliens who’ve come into this country by breaking our laws is, yes, if you came into this country illegally, Donald Trump and I are going to work to send you home because that’s what is required if you want to have a real border policy,” Vance said. “And our message to everybody who wants to come to this country is come through the right channels, because as soon as Kamala Harris is booted out of office – and it’s going to happen in just a few short months – as soon as Kamala Harris is booted out of office, we are not open for business to illegal aliens or to the Mexican drug cartels anymore.” Vance earlier referenced how the event was located not far from where Laken Riley was born and raised. Riley, a nursing student, was allegedly murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant while out on a run. Former President Trump’s running mate described Riley as a “beautiful, beautiful young girl who would still be alive today if Kamala Harris had done her job and not let these drug cartels come into our community.” Former President Barack Obama advocated for securing the border “without tearing kids away from their parents,” when addressing the DNC in Chicago on Tuesday. Obama failed to mention the report, which was released earlier that day,
SCOTUS gives partial victory to GOP trying to enforce proof of citizenship to vote in Arizona
In a 5-4 vote Thursday, the Supreme Court gave a partial victory to Republicans trying to enforce proof of citizenship when voting in Arizona. The court was asked to allow enforcement of sections of Arizona law requiring documented proof of citizenship to cast a ballot in the presidential election, including when voting by mail. The Republican Party of Arizona said last Thursday that it had filed the emergency application pending appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit “in support of HB 2492, our law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections.” ARIZONA LAW REQUIRING PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO VOTE SUPPORTED BY 24 STATE AGS IN EMERGENCY STAY WITH SCOTUS A federal judge had blocked enforcement of the law, which prompted the appeal to the high court for temporary relief. “The Constitution gives states the power to set voter qualifications, and Arizona is leading the charge to ensure ONLY CITIZENS vote in our elections,” the Arizona GOP tweeted. “This case has the potential to prevent non-citizen voting once and for all, which should have been the case all along.” An emergency application for stay by the Republican National Committee argues that voter integrity is a “problem” that’s gone unchecked, particularly with so many “illegal aliens” in the country. When it came to ruling, Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch would have granted the application in full, while Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, Justice Barrett, and Justice Jackson would have denied the application in full. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh provided a compromise of sorts with their deciding votes. The now stalled 2022 state law requiring proof of citizenship was challenged by civil rights groups and the Arizona Democratic Party. A 2013 Supreme Court ruling limited when states could impose such restrictions when voting in federal elections.
Pro-Trump group launches $500k ad campaign hitting Kamala Harris on border crisis ahead of DNC speech
EXCLUSIVE – A pro-Trump group has launched a $500,000 ad campaign taking aim at Vice President Kamala Harris over her handling of the border crisis ahead of her Democratic nomination acceptance speech on Thursday. The conservative nonprofit Building America’s Future has released a one-minute ad that will appear on digital platforms in critical battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, leading up to Harris addressing the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. “Three years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris was given an important job: control the border crisis. Did she step up to the plate?” the narrator asks. DNC ATTENDEES WEIGH IN: ARE KAMALA HARRIS’ AND JOE BIDEN’S RECORDS ONE AND THE SAME? The ad includes an infamous exchange Harris had with a reporter in 2021. Asked whether she had plans to visit the border, Harris replied with a chuckle, “Not today.” DNC ATTENDEES PRESSED ON WHAT HARRIS PRESIDENCY WOULD MEAN FOR MIDDLE CLASS After showing headlines about the record number of illegal immigrants crossing the border, including those on the terror watch list, the ad invokes the tragic murders of Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley and Joselyn Toaquiza, placing blame on the VP as the so-called border czar. “Rather than asking for a promotion, Kamala Harris should start by saying their names,” the narrator adds. The “#SayTheirNames” campaign will also launch mobile billboards and 2D projections at Harris campaign events in swing states of the gravestones of the victims who have been murdered by illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital‘s request for comment. HARRIS WEBSITE STILL LACKS POLICY DESPITE WALZ SAYING AMERICANS DESERVE TO KNOW ‘EXACTLY WHAT SHE’D DO’ Illegal immigration is widely seen as one of Harris’ biggest vulnerabilities ahead of the November election. Since emerging as the Democratic nominee, Team Harris has attempted to distance the VP from the “border czar” label she was given by both the media and her critics.