Thanks tomkat.
Posted on 02/17/2019 1:02:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Police sources believe that, as many had suspected, "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett perpetrated an enormous hoax on the American public by staging a phony hate crime.
Now we're waiting for apologies from the celebrities and top Democrats who not only expressed sympathy for the supposed victim of violent hate, but turned around and cited President Trump and his supporters as having somehow inspired the attack.
Which was itself pretty foolish, since much of his story seemed implausible from the start. For one thing, Smollett's account of what took place in the frigid early-morning hours of Jan. 29 kept changing.
Smollett claimed he was set upon at approximately 2 a.m. on a freezing night by two white men who recognized him and began beating him while uttering anti-black and anti-gay slurs, as well as "this is MAGA country" -- and also draped a rope around his neck.
Yet surveillance cameras showed there was at most a 60-second window for the attack, which is highly unlikely. He also waited 40 minutes before calling police, later claiming he didn't want to further the stereotype of gay people being "weak."
Moreover, he refused to hand over his cellphone (he said he'd been talking to his manager when the attack occurred), eventually turning over only "heavily redacted" phone records.
That's a whole lot of red flags -- especially considering the not-inconsiderable number of similar hoaxes, also widely publicized, perpetrated in recent years.
Yet Democratic presidential hopefuls jumped on the hysteria train.
As National Review's Jim Geraghty notes, it's one thing to be sympathetic to an apparent victim -- and quite another to hold a large group of people, including the president of the United States, responsible without any factual basis.
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Thanks tomkat.
Being a liberal means NEVER having to say you’re sorry.
The political positions don't matter, only the power matters.
If past experience is any guide, a few will, most won't.
Very few of the Duke 88 professors admitted they were wrong or apologized. Many are still at Duke and their careers haven't suffered, at least by outward appearances. Some moved to other universities; a few dropped out of sight.
Nah, they won’t admit they were wrong. They’ll just blame President Trump for creating the conditions that drove Smollett to do the hoax.
They will do what bottom-feeding attorneys always do: change the subject, switch narratives, blame conservatives and Christians. We are in a full-bore culture war.
They don’t have to admit they were wrong. There have been NO lefties indicted or prosecuted for a G___ damn thing.
First, he’s a Negro
Second, he’s a homosexual
Third, the leftists have already made him into a martyr
Fourth, he’s in the horribly leftist media
Doubt it.
He was just trying to raise ‘Awareness’ and increase “Consciousness” for the real problem of Alt Right, Trump inspired Hate Crimes that happen EVERY DAY IN AMERIKKKA.
No. They’ll probably keep citing it and complain that he was lynched a second time by the people who didn’t believe his story.
Is there a website keeping track of these hoaxes?
No, they are spinning it as we type.
“He said he was attacked and he was”
They forget to mention the POS Homosexual paid the attackers
These people have no boundaries
I think we all know the answer.
Will Smollett be charged with a hate crime?
No. They’ll just find some way to blame this on in the right.
no, and he won’t admit the lie either. ‘Cause it wasn’t his fault, blahblahblah.
They’ll just move on to the next “racist” thing.
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