Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The News Media’s ‘Jussie Smollett Problem’ is Far Bigger Than Just Him, and It’s Helping Trump
Mediaite ^ | February 17, 2019 | John Ziegler

Posted on 02/18/2019 8:36:39 AM PST by Hojczyk

Last night, the dam of media protection for Empire actor Jussie Smollett finally broke, as major news outlets suddenly decided it was safe to report that police strongly believe, backed by evidence, that his story of being a victim of a Trump-motivated hate crime is false.

While his high-priced lawyers are still desperately playing the victim card, it appears that Smollett paid the two Nigerian brothers who “attacked” him (and whom he clearly knows) in a conspiracy to create a hoax.

This is a fraud in which the mainstream news media might as well have been an unindicted co-conspirator. They, along with kindred spirits within the top ranks of the Democratic party, instantly went all in on supporting Smollett’s always implausible claim, subjecting it to basically zero scrutiny.

Since Smollett is black, gay, very anti-Trump, a celebrity, and, at least at that time, a hate-crime victim, whatever ability liberals may have had to see through his inherently absurd story was immediately stripped away. Those qualities, creating what I refer to as Smollett’s “Political Correctness Force Field,” acted like Kryptonite on the power of liberals to see what was always very obvious to us who are not blinded by the biography of the person making an allegation.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: chicago; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; illinois; johnziegler; jussiesmollett; media; mediabias; mediaite; mediawingofthednc; msm; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rumprangernews; smearmachine; smollett; smolletthoax; tds
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-59 next last

1 posted on 02/18/2019 8:36:39 AM PST by Hojczyk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

The ‘Progressives’ will have to use someone else in their commercials against Trump. The Two Minute Hate Campaign will need another ‘Soul’ to drag behind the Pick Up Truck.


2 posted on 02/18/2019 8:39:13 AM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

3 posted on 02/18/2019 8:40:50 AM PST by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Because they keep proving that they really ARE

FAKE NEWS!


4 posted on 02/18/2019 8:41:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk
I wonder if the press and the MSM could stoop any lower and with this incident it has confirmed to me that they can. The only way they can redeem themselves is for the police in Chicago to prosecute this fake to the fullest extent of the law. The MSM needs to plea mea culpa and I am doubtful of this also. I am skeptical if justice will be done. He was an Obama supporter also.
5 posted on 02/18/2019 8:42:15 AM PST by vetvetdoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: griswold3

That Two Minute Hate has completed. Smollett served his purpose. The Left doesn’t care that he was exposed; they’re already on to invoke the next Two Minute Hate, their constituents having already forgotten Jussie.


6 posted on 02/18/2019 8:42:52 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Jussie Smollett is the new Subway spokesman after his amazing ability to take a savage beating and still hold on to his Subway.


7 posted on 02/18/2019 8:43:22 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I’m confused.

Is John Ziegler still mad at President Trump and Sarah Palin?

He flip-flops as much as John Kerry.


8 posted on 02/18/2019 8:45:51 AM PST by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Love that handy dandy math equation. That’s a keeper.


9 posted on 02/18/2019 8:46:16 AM PST by Nevadan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

TMZ is reporting when police raided the home of the 2 brothers they found magazines with pages torn out, and authorities are now trying to determine if the missing pages are connected to the threatening letter that was sent to Jussie 8 days before the alleged attack

The timeline no one is talking about:
-Kamala Harris has “anti-lynching Bill”; it stalls and goes nowhere
-Kamala Harris announces run for President
-Smollett is at her announcement party (because they are friends)
-Smollett gets “lynched” in horrible “racist attack”
-Harris anti-lynching bill flies through Senate
-Harris launches Presidential run on the back of her passing “anti-lynching”
laws in the wake of Smollett attack. Bait for black voters?
lol?

The REAL conspiracy? ????
Hmmmm.


10 posted on 02/18/2019 8:47:58 AM PST by Jayster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ctdonath2

The “Juicy” Message is out there
and will join;
Hands Up, don’t Shoot
as a Civil rights chant.


11 posted on 02/18/2019 8:48:22 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Since Smollett is black, gay, very anti-Trump, a celebrity, and, at least at that time, a hate-crime victim, whatever ability liberals may have had to see through his inherently absurd story was immediately stripped away. Those qualities, creating what I refer to as Smollett’s “Political Correctness Force Field,” acted like Kryptonite on the power of liberals to see what was always very obvious to us who are not blinded by the biography of the person making an allegation.
Just a CYA from a PMS.

12 posted on 02/18/2019 8:48:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Since Smollett is black, gay, very anti-Trump, and a celebrity, what’s not to believe?


13 posted on 02/18/2019 8:49:36 AM PST by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

THIS JUST IN: The rogue FBI agents are investigating Trump’s collusion with Jussie Smollett and two random Nigerians to stage the “MAGA hat-hate crime” to push Trump’s approval ratings over 52%. NIGERIA-NIGERIA-NIGERIA! /sarc


14 posted on 02/18/2019 8:51:41 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jayster

KH is dead. She exploded on the launching pad much like the Indian Princess and Dixie Cicks Biden.


15 posted on 02/18/2019 8:55:54 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Jayster

Was Kamala Harris part of the Jussie Smollett hoax?

But another Hollywood guy, a film producer named Tariq Nasheed, who also goes by hip-hop rapper-like names of “K-Flex” and “King Flex,” thinks this isn’t the end of the story. He smells a political rat.

His series of tweets raises suspicions that the political response to the matter, led by Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris (and Cory Booker), is suspicious, real suspicious, and there might have been a staged setup in order to get a law passed and rack up voter points.

....

Meanwhile, back in Hollywood, it’s pretty obvious that Nasheed knows the ways of Hollywood and its leftist establishment very, very well, so this is what leaped out at him. Actor, staged attack, Chicago political machine, presidential campaign, new anti-lynching law, and pin it all on Trump. Nasheed’s suspicions are well worth a closer look, because they seem to fit together.

Link: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/was_kamala_harris_part_of_the_jussie_stollett_hoax.html


16 posted on 02/18/2019 8:56:36 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: All

TMZ.COM is reporting: Cops Grew Suspicious When Jussie Knew Location of Security Cameras........


Pelosi rushed to out a heartfelt tweet to this phoney. She couldn’t wait to slapdown Donald.......

Now she’s forced to delete the tweet before anybody gets a whiff of her utter stupidity.


17 posted on 02/18/2019 8:56:55 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: All
THIS JUST IN-----PAGE SIX-----NY POST

Almost immediately after what he told cops was a violent, anti-gay and racist attack, “Empire” star Jussie Smollett insisted on going on TV to tell his story, The Post has learned. Smollett was “adamant” that he wanted to appear on ABC’s Good Morning America, said one source with knowledge of the GMA booking decision.

Smollett's case took a dark turn Saturday night, when Chicago police told Fox that they now believe Smollett paid two pals to fake the crime. “When Kim Kardashian was the victim of that horrific burglary in Paris, she closed down, she gave no interviews for months."

“But Jussie was adamant; he wanted TV right away. He simply could not wait to vilify Pres Trump. He raised his voice, saying, ‘I need to do this right now. I’m a black gay man and people need to know what happened to me. I want to tell my story.’ He wanted media right away.”

Betcha he can turn those tears on and off......whenever needed.

During his Feb. 14 appearance, Smollett tearfully told GMA's Robin Roberts about being beaten about the head and berated with racist and homophobic insults. Threatened by the two strangers he said were white, and shouting "This is MAGA country n-----er."

===========================================

Did Smollet's publicist believe his whacked-out story, or was he in on the scheme to vilify Trump?

18 posted on 02/18/2019 8:57:37 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Nevadan

Love that handy dandy math equation. That’s a keeper.

The equation is not bad but he left out an essential piece:

If a noose is involved, it’s 100% certain to be fake.

In this case the “victim” let the noose stay around his neck until the media showed up, which means that even in an infinite multiverse this story is 100% fake in every universe.


19 posted on 02/18/2019 8:57:54 AM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I lived in Orange County(New York State) during the Tawana Brawley Hoax. I did not believe any of these latest hoax shenanigans for a minute.

The left is so desperate to create a lie that MAGA supporters are racist - and they aren’t - so it all has to be manufactured.


20 posted on 02/18/2019 8:59:29 AM PST by stonehouse01
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-59 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson