Posted on 02/19/2019 5:14:24 PM PST by jazusamo
For Sens. Kamala D. Harris and Cory A. Booker, Democratic presidential candidates who were promoting an anti-lynching bill, the “attack” on actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago looked like a horrible yet opportune talking point.
Instead, the apparent hoax is turning out to be a warning to 2020 Democratic candidates about singling out people for martyrdom, including the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault and the drum-banging American Indian who confronted Catholic high school students on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
In the rush to speak too soon about the Smollett case, Ms. Harris and Mr. Booker stand out.
Just before noon on Jan. 29, news reports emerged on social media that Mr. Smollett, an actor on the TV show “Empire,” had been attacked by two men yelling racial and homophobic slurs. He claimed the men said something about “MAGA country,” suggesting they were Trump supporters.
Mr. Smollett said the two men put a rope around his neck.
Five hours after the initial report, Ms. Harris, a former California attorney general, pronounced the attack genuine and called it “an attempted modern-day lynching.” “We must confront this hate,” she tweeted.
But this week, confronted with growing indications that Mr. Smollett’s story was a hoax concocted to help his television career, Ms. Harris has become a devotee of caution.
“I think that the facts are still unfolding,” she said. “I’m not going to comment until I know the outcome of the investigation.”
Two brothers told police that the “Empire” actor staged an attack on himself because he was upset that a threatening letter he reported a week earlier did not receive enough attention, a law enforcement official told ABC News. The FBI is looking into whether Mr. Smollett concocted the letter.
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I’m not so sure Harris and Booker weren’t in on the hoax from the beginning
You would think that after the Covington boys disaster that the idiots in the media would stop believing hoaxes like this.
But then again the media is the very ones who are making up these lies and publishing all this fake news. So they only have themselves to blame.
Idiots.
There is no one to identify as a victim so they cannot be sued. But the mainstream media must have known that this story was a total concoction. What ridiculous idiot would say something as stupid as “This is MAGA country”?
So-called journalists wouldn’t get burned so badly if they did investigative work, gathered facts, and published established truths.
But they insist on persuading everyone that OrangeManBad and all white folks be racist.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out Smollett sent himself the letter too.
Gee, how come everyone else in the country could immediately see it was a hoax?
Harris knows Smollett and stood to gain. Booker is too stupid for this.
The fools were Jussied. ROTFL.
What, like he called them up and told them he was planning a fake hate crime?
Or like they guessed it was fake and decided to make a big deal about it anyway?
How convincing are those possibilities?
Yep, idiots all.
Showed the world how absolutely basically STUPID the dummocrap candidates are, how they rush to judgement without all the facts at hand, how they throw around ugly racial phrases-—all of which should eliminate them immediately for consideration for any office above garbageman.
Which would explain why he would not allow them to see the phone....Perhaps they would find her Phone #?
Meanwhile, gay, black men are “magically” dying at Dem donor Ed Buck’s place and nothing has happened to him.
Investigative journalists are darned near a thing of the past, two that come to mind are Herridge and Atkisson and they’re both good.
I’m not so sure Harris and Booker weren’t in on the hoax from the beginning
I agree and it is sick it worked
Smollett knew this when he pulled this hoax. He figured the Chicago PD would go along given that it is controlled by the Left.
Looks like Smollett figured wrong.
Heh, we all know they are fools. They play themselves.
The big problem is that they are supported 100% by our low-T, corrupt, and totally ill-educated MSM.
Which would explain why he would not allow them to see the phone....Perhaps they would find her Phone #?
Excellent point. I can just hear them colluding, conspiring to "get Trump" .......
......and boost the ambitions of the three nobodies......all at the same time.
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