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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.

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To: Liz
And just who interviewed Smellie Smollett?

Why ABC's very own two-fer: The Black Carpet mnuncher...Robin Roberts!

So, Jussie, as one Black pervert to another Black pervert, Trump is a liar right?

41 posted on 02/18/2019 9:28:07 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Liz

Kamala Harris’s is not black. Jamaica and mainland India heritage. By African American standards she’s actually a white person.
The mean light skinned lady tricked the poor black man Into performing a reality political ad for her campaign against trump.
That’s what it looks like to many of us .


42 posted on 02/18/2019 9:28:17 AM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (Imho)
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To: red-dawg
... media gullibility–at least when it fits their agenda...

BINGO - "gullibility by choice..."... Germans in preworldwar did the same numbers on Jews...

43 posted on 02/18/2019 9:29:19 AM PST by GOPJ ( "Coonman Northam" - whoever thought a democrat could stay in office with that nickname...)
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To: Hojczyk

What these hate crime hoaxes do is serve to discredit ANYONE who has been the victim of any kind of racial motivated attack.

Now when someone claims *hate crime* people will just yawn and move on.

Just like the boy who cried *Wolf!* too often.


44 posted on 02/18/2019 9:33:28 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: samtheman
"In this case the “victim” let the noose stay around his neck.."

What is missed here is the "noose" was using a windsor knot. While a windsor knot is also a slip knot, a proper noose uses eight to thirteen coils.

45 posted on 02/18/2019 9:37:51 AM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: Jayster

perfect plot


46 posted on 02/18/2019 9:49:41 AM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Lopeover

The case of Susan Smith back in 1994 comes to mind. Young, white mother of two toddlers, says a black man carjacked her minivan with the two boys inside. Weeks later, she confesses to drowning her kids by leaving them in their car seats in the minivan and letting it roll into a reservoir. People were as much outraged about the race baiting accusations from the mother as they were of a mother drowning her two little boys.


47 posted on 02/18/2019 10:03:30 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

That link to that story needs its own post on FR.

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


48 posted on 02/18/2019 10:07:57 AM PST by Jayster
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To: Jayster

That makes a lot of sense. The chain is pretty solid.


49 posted on 02/18/2019 10:12:25 AM PST by arthurus (tilu)
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To: Hojczyk
“The News Media’s ‘Jussie Smollett Problem’ is Far Bigger Than Just Him, and It’s Helping Trump”

It's a double whammy!! Liberals continue to cover themselves with sh^% while the fake news MSM continues to blast it into the stratosphere.

It's the gift that keeps on giving... no one is responsible and there's NO accountability on either end of this script.

It's BS at it's puerile inception and BS when magnified for public consumption of the half-witted Liberal losers! It's incessant, gratuitous, self-destructive, internecine hype. What could go wrong?

50 posted on 02/18/2019 10:34:47 AM PST by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Hojczyk

Yes; I believe there will be new terms devoted to the Junkie Smellit effect simply meaning ‘big assed liar’.


51 posted on 02/18/2019 10:42:40 AM PST by Boomer (We are one dem President away from America being destroyed into communism)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

AND, her foreign parents were in this country 3 years (you can only acquire American citizenship after 5 years if both parents are foreign born), so basically she is yet another anchor baby. They should always portray her with an anchor round her neck. She is not Presidential material, and Obummer did not set a precedent in that regard...he was flat out illegal.


52 posted on 02/18/2019 10:45:13 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: Lopeover
"History is being repeated with a different group now."

Not a different group. Both were Democrats!

53 posted on 02/18/2019 10:52:48 AM PST by Bob Mc
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To: Lopeover
I would look to black Americans to take the moral high ground as to be so viscerally opposed to false accusations of crime, not stage them.

Younger generations of blacks have been sociologically brainwashed into believing that racism is a pernicious, insidious, and ever-present threat, lurking around every corner.

It's nowhere near as prevalent as the brainwashers would have them believe.

Their elders should set them straight by relating their recollections of actual racism and institutionalized discrimination from decades past, when such things were a fact of life for blacks.

54 posted on 02/18/2019 2:17:53 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212
Kamala Harris is not black. Jamaica and mainland India heritage. By African American standards she’s actually a white person.

Not really. If Harris' father was a black Jamaican, her genetic bona fides are in good shape, as far as black Americans are concerned.

They're better than Obama's, in fact. She can claim slave blood, where he can't.

55 posted on 02/18/2019 2:26:47 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Hojczyk

This one isn’t going away, it’s too hilarious for that. It’s into the Internet battlespace now and nobody can stop it.


56 posted on 02/18/2019 2:37:56 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Jayster

Yeah. Noticed that today. Looks really suspicious.

And apparently the bill, admit to fly thru Congress, was quietly amended to make LGBT a legally protected status. Weaponized intersectionalism.


57 posted on 02/18/2019 2:50:49 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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To: Windflier

Good answer, but who will speak up and tell the younger people?


58 posted on 02/18/2019 5:50:23 PM PST by Lopeover (We Are #TRUMPSTRONG)
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To: Lopeover
...who will speak up and tell the younger people?

Well, I do, but I can only speak for me.

59 posted on 02/18/2019 6:04:16 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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