Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen angrily tossed an California-based documentary filmmaker from his Memphis home, and now is accused of assault in the incident.

MyFOXMemphis.com reports that Cohen was holding a news conference in his home on Wednesday when Peter Musurlian, the filmmaker, tried to enter his home. Cohen told reporters that Musurlian was part of a group trying to paint Cohen in a bad light over a vote regarding Turkey's treatment of Armenians during World War I: Cohen did not support a House bill calling Armenian deaths "genocide."

The Web site for Musurlian's company, Globalist Films, discusses Musurlian's Armenian-American heritage, and blames Turkey for the "first Genocide of the 20th Century."

Cohen, can be seen in the TV footage first telling Musurlian to leave, and then shoving him out the door. Musurlian reportedly filed charges against Cohen.

Cohen faces Nikki Tinker in the Democratic primary Thursday. Cohen accuses Tinker of being supported by out-of-state Armenians in her bid to unseat Cohen, a freshman House member. And Tinker, who is black, has released ads questioning Cohen's religious beliefs, and leveled accusations of sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan, which Cohen, who is Jewish, denies.

Tinker's ads were fiery enough to draw a rebuke Thursday from the party's de facto leader, Barack Obama.

"These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics, and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee. Its time to turn the page on a politics driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to lift up our communities and our country," Obama said, according to a release.

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