Posted on 02/19/2019 7:46:19 PM PST by MtnClimber
Another clueless reporter is *shocked* that the Jussie Smollett story turned out to be a hoax:.....
If there was a "national outrage" over the dubious incident, it was limited to gullible left-wing journalists, celebrities, politicians, and activists. The "narrative" only seemed "cut-and-dry" to people who were looking at the case through lenses clouded by their anti-Trump bias. It seemed made up to those of us who noticed that Smollett's allegations were outlandish, implausible, and riddled with inconsistencies from the get-go.
Yet even as his story started falling apart (which happened almost immediately), the national media clung to their precious narrative.
There's been much commentary in the past few days about the MSM's lack of critical thinking skills in covering not only the Jussie Smollett "hate crime" fairy tale, but a number of other bogus stories as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
because they minds are so clouded by their own involvement in helping create and “report” so much fake information they can no longer decifer truth from hoax when it presents itself.
1: Hate Trump rules over all rational thinking
2: The “need” to get the story out there first runs deep
3: “Journalists” are extremely left-wing, which speaks to their intelligence
That sums it up.
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Right on the mark!!
No small coincidence that TMZ was right out front on this "horrible act" of racial hatred.
And no small miracle that HealsUp Harris and Spartacus (aka Hooker and Booker ) were on this like flies on .....poop.
This.
This.
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Hoaxer Smollett came out as gay during a televised interview with Ellen DeGeneres in March 2015.
In a 2016 interview with Out magazine, Smollett clarified his sexual orientation by stating “If I had to label myself, I would label myself as a gay man.” However, he stated his belief that openness to love is more important than gender, revealing that “If I fall in love down the road with a woman, I’m going to love that woman.”
As a boy, Smollett had some romantic interest in girls. When Smollett’s gay character Jamal Lyon from Empire engaged in a tryst with a female character, Smollett defended the plot development by stating that he and Empire creator Lee Daniels were trying to create a conversation about sexual fluidity in the gay community.
Daniels has stated that “Jussie and I both share the same feeling that, yes, even though we are gay, we’re sexual human beings. And we do occasionally want to sleep with a woman.” Daniels stated that “We’re showing life on Empire”, in that both he and Smollett were incorporating their own sexual fluidity as gay men into Empire.
Here’s 12 establishment media commentators and journalists who fueled the Jussie Smollett flames with impassioned and uncritical reactions to the Empire actor’s imaginative account of his supposed run-in with Trump supporters in “MAGA country” Chicago.
1. Eugene Scott – Washington Post‘s The Fix reporter——“To many, the Smollett incident — and the political nature of the assault — is yet another reminder for many black gay Americans that this president’s vision of a ‘great America’ does not appear to include them,” wrote Eugene Scott for Washington Post‘s The Fix.
2. Don Lemon – CNN journalist-——CNN’s Don Lemon told Red Table Talk that he wasn’t shocked when he heard Smollett’s story, adding that he was concerned about the actor’s “well-being” in having to deal with being black, gay, and famous.
“One, he has to deal with discrimination as a black man,” said Lemon, “then, on top of that, he has to be gay — and then, fame — fame is not natural — When something happens to you and it’s controversial, everyone is coming for you, and so I knew everyone would be picking apart his story.”
3. Yamiche Alcindor – PBS NewsHour White House correspondent—— “We have to do better as a country. This is disgusting,” said PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, in a tweet referring to the alleged attackers shouting “This is MAGA country,” which was then retweeted by CNN commentator Sally Kohn.
4. Joyce Vance – MSNBC contributor——“If someone commits this kind of act under your banner, you should have the decency to publicly condemn them and say it’s not what you stand for. But I doubt Trump will,” tweeted MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance in response to Alcindor.
5. Jamil Smith – Rolling Stone journalist-—“The brutal attack on him in Chicago appears to be yet another example not just of further moral decay, but of the brand of terrorism that still doesn’t seem to spark enough response by Americans,” tweeted Rolling Stone journalist Jamil Smith.
6. April Ryan – CNN analyst-——“This attack on @JussieSmollett is a hate crime and should be treated as such!” affirmed CNN’s April Ryan, in response to the NAACP’s Derrick Johnson, who claimed the actor had been a victim of a “racist, homophobic attack” and that “divisive, hateful rhetoric” is putting “lives at risk.”
7. Jemele Hill – The Atlantic journalist——“I’ve met @JussieSmollett a few times at social events and he emanates warmth and joy. I’m just disgusted and appalled that he has suffered the unimaginable,” tweeted an uncritical Jemele Hill.
8. Zerlina Maxwell – MSNBC analyst——“The media is broken. If they can’t call the attack on Jussie racist straight up then they need to find alternative employment,” argued the MSNBC analyst, scrutinizing any media that had been referring to the incident as an “apparent hate crime.”
“Apparent HATE CRIME?” continued Maxwell, “Sure bc that has a legal definition. But to be clear pouring bleach on a Black person while you are yelling about MAGA = RACIST”
9. Joy Reid – MSNBC correspondent——“Nooses never really disappeared as messages of a very specific kind of terror,” said MSNBC’s Joy Reid, “but every time they’re used, my God, it’s chilling. Praying for Jussie’s full recovery. And for us all.”
10. Karen Attiah – Washington Post editor-——“Regarding the heinous attack on @JussieSmollett, yet another reminder that Trump’s ascendance and the resulting climate of hate has meant that lives have been increasingly at stake since 2015. Smollett could have been killed by those thugs screaming MAGA. Let that sink in,” tweeted Washington Post editor Karen Attiah.
11. Amy Siskind – Huffington Post contributor——“Can we get anyone in the Trump orbit to condemn the 2 MAGA men who brutally attacked Jussie Smollett, a gay black man, and put his head in a noose while saying ‘This is MAGA country,’ so others don’t feel like your silence is legitimizing hate? How about you @realDonaldTrump?” tweeted Huffington Post contributor Amy Siskind.
“Confirmed. Trump needs to address this attack publicly and condemn it!” continued Siskind in another tweet, which included a Huffington Post article that did not confirm anything, other than the fact that Smollett had spoken to the police.
12. Brooke Baldwin – CNN journalist and news anchor——“Absolutely despicable,” said CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on CNN Newsroom, “and this is America in 2019.”
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Moreover, feasting on others' racism, bigotry, homophobia makes the left "feel good" about themselves.
Particularly in Hollywood's environs where self-hatred is huge......due to the things they have to do for a good film part.
MSM is not “falling” for anything. They are making hay while the sun shines. When it all collapses into hoax and fraud MSM just drops it pretty quick then forever after cites it as an example of Hate Crime when it is showing how widespread white violence against minorities is. Today it is a fraud. Tomorrow it is a truth to be repeatedly cited.
Stalinists lie. Always
The media is always on offense, never apologizes. “Don’t blame the messenger!” “Republicans are meanies!”
Keep low information voters misinformed. Many will never hear the updates and the day one talking points will always reside in their minds.
Are there many white people walking around in numbers of 2 or less in South Side Chicago out at 2am who are unaccosted themselves?
Is it not newsworthy to report POC attacking white people in Chicago? Would the police blame the victim asking “what were you doing out on those streets at that hour all by yourself?”
Chicago temp that night was -18. No one would be on the street at 2:00 AM in a cap. Smollett would not be walking to get a sandwich. This story never made sense to those with sense. Yet the ignorant or evil Democrat media believed and pushed this obvious hoax.
Incidentally, why was the story of the “attack” on the news photographer at theTrump rally in El Paso dropped so quickly? The “attacker” was probably a Beto supporter or a Soros-paid shill. The story was dropped and “no charges were filed.” That would not have happened if it was a Trump supporter.
Because they desperately want it to be true.
It’s all about having screaming negative headlines and worried looking news anchors predicting the end of the world as we know it, and if those stories quietly go away, in many people’s minds the accusations will be fact and the part of the story that says “oh wait, it was all a hoax” won’t be. Whatever gets the air time is what is fact, whatever doesn’t isn’t. 90% of the coverage on Trump is negative.
Right now POTUS is losing to every single Democratic candidate including Beto in the polling. It’s a long way until November of next year, but this continual heinousness is all about making Trump lose and getting back the trajectory of China rising and the United States declining.
As long as the media remains accountable only to the moneyed interests keeping them afloat, this sort of craven calculation is going to continue to happen. If the rest of the world’s economies are buoyed, they aren’t really going to care that the price for that is the destruction of the United States, until the United States is no longer there and the power dynamics they have accepted as a given suddenly evaporates, and then the world tilts and it’s too late.
When you are peddling a lie--a BIG LIE--you become desperate for anything that will even remotely appear to support your lie.
The reason for the desperation is that you are working against reality and, in the final analysis, you can never beat reality.
Reality holds all the cards.
L8r
They do not fall for any politically motivated hoax that supports their narrative. They see through it immediately and start lying about it immediately.
They are your enemy folks. Your enemies do not solely exist outside the borders of the US. They are domestic enemies. Treat them as such.
JoMa
I think the current term is “confirmation bias.”
From the first moment, it was clearly a hoax. Even if I WANTED to believe it, I wouldn't have been able to.
I did head over to DU to see what their take was on it. Surprisingly, there were a small group of posters warning to be wary of this. Too many red flags. They were pounced upon by others who demanded Smollett be believed.
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