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Jussie Smollett Returns to ‘Empire’ Set After Posting Bail in False Hate Crime Case
Variety ^ | February 21, 2019 | JOE OTTERSON

Posted on 02/21/2019 3:32:45 PM PST by maggief

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To: BookmanTheJanitor

And these scum media and celebrity types swear that there is no double standard in Hollywood. Sickening.


21 posted on 02/21/2019 3:50:48 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Halls

I wonder how that works. Will the feds wait until the disorder trial is over?


22 posted on 02/21/2019 3:50:50 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: maggief

Maybe to clean out his locker. Hopefully.


23 posted on 02/21/2019 3:51:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

That’s where we are. A snarky tweet can get you fired. Posting bail on a hate crime hoax lets you back on the set. It all depends on whether or not your employers recognize whatever protected class you identify with.


24 posted on 02/21/2019 3:53:58 PM PST by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: maggief
.... What will happen now is the Producers will wait to see if all of this controversy either Helped ..... or Hurt the ratings of the show. My guess is that it will help the ratings because of, what amounts to, Free Advertising that the Nets gave the show by reporting on the controversy ....

.... In short .... Smollett may have actually saved the show from slumping ratings ...... Of course time will tell .....

25 posted on 02/21/2019 3:54:28 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: maggief

Still waiting for a tweet from Danny Strong. He has not deleted his tweets from day after incident in January.


26 posted on 02/21/2019 3:54:30 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: budj

Blago photo....

Remember the old radio serial The Shadow (film remake, too):Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows

With Blago it’s Who knows what metal files,sandpaper, locksmith picks and small pistols lurk under the dead raccoon hair of Blago. No one knows.


27 posted on 02/21/2019 3:56:21 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: maggief

We should be sad that a man like Smutlett fell hard and there is no one in Hollywood that knows him and his connections are dried up and nobody but Nigerians want to speak to him, and that he has typhoid and living on the street with a red hat and needles thinking homelessness is not what it’s all cracked up to be despite Angela Davis being homeless and that Kamella Harris is homeless because she’s never home, and why did this happen to him when he is an Empire star now living in cardboard box city.


28 posted on 02/21/2019 3:58:56 PM PST by BEJ
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To: maggief

I wonder if this and the situation with the Governor / Lieutenant Governor / AG from Virginia will be joked about during next Week’s Oscar Telecast?


29 posted on 02/21/2019 4:01:16 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: maggief

What are the ratings like for that show? I haven’t watched it since the first episode (and don’t intend to start now).


30 posted on 02/21/2019 4:02:40 PM PST by BlackAdderess (When anyone can be fired at any time with the magic of Photoshop anyone can be blackmailed)
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To: gaijin

it’s 20th Century Fox and they should fire him now.

21 Feb: CNBC: TNT pulls Jussie Smollett’s ‘Drop the Mic’ episode as Fox mulls over options after actor’s arrest
by Sarah Whitten
On Thursday, 20th Century Fox Television said it is still evaluating its options, while Warner Bros.-owned TNT said it is pulling an episode of “Drop the Mic” that featured Smollet, according to Jensen Karp, the executive producer and head writer of the show. Karp tweeted that the episode would no longer be airing. It had been scheduled to air March 6.

“We understand the seriousness of this matter and we respect the legal process,” Fox said in a statement. “We are evaluating the situation and we are considering our options.”...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/21/fox-is-considering-its-options-after-jussie-smollett-arrested.html


31 posted on 02/21/2019 4:02:50 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: maggief

this guy is so well politically connected that there is no way they did not have a hand in this crime


32 posted on 02/21/2019 4:04:03 PM PST by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: MAGAthon

Wikipedia: 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox is an American film studio currently owned by Fox Entertainment Group, itself owned by 21st Century Fox...
The studio was owned by News Corporation from 1984 to 2013. On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced its intention to acquire the studio along with the majority of 21st Century Fox’s other entertainment assets, which was approved by both companies on July 27, 2018...
On July 27, 2018, Disney and Fox shareholders approved the merger between the two companies. The deal is expected to close during the first half of 2019...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox


33 posted on 02/21/2019 4:07:42 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: maggief

Liberal racism on display: if a person is of color, they are treated like a child, as somehow not responsible for their own actions so their little feelings can’t be hurt. They were just ‘being silly’ after all.

And every single story of a person of color’s hate crime against an entire population group is followed by a fake-stern editorial comment pushing the myth of racists behind every tree in America - engaging in even more fearmongering targeting the exact same attacked population - just like good Obamaites.


34 posted on 02/21/2019 4:08:29 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Slyfox

Is that a joke? I haven’t come across that tidbit of information yet. Wouldn’t surprise me though.

It still shocks some people that Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsome are also related, but not by blood.


35 posted on 02/21/2019 4:08:57 PM PST by lee martell
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To: MAGAthon

Wikipedia: Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney
On July 25, 2018, TCI Fund Management, the second largest shareholder of 21st Century Fox, indicated that they voted to approve the Disney-Fox deal. On July 27, 2018, Disney and Fox shareholders approved the merger between the two companies. The merger’s completions should be in the first half of 2019...
On October 10, 2018, it was reported that the new, post-merger organizational structure of “New Fox” would be implemented by January 1, 2019, ahead of the closure of the Disney sale (which is still expected to occur during the first half of 2019)...
On January 7, 2019, the registration statement for “New Fox”, under the name Fox Corporation, was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
On January 11, 2019, it was reported that the deal is expected to close by either February or March 2019. However, on January 30, 2019, in a SEC filing by Disney, it was reported that the deal is expected to close by June 2019...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney


36 posted on 02/21/2019 4:09:01 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: lee martell

I have just heard it over the last few days. Don’t know for sure but it would not surprise me the find out it’s true.


37 posted on 02/21/2019 4:10:50 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Also, Megan Kelly had her show canceled after making a COMMENT about blackface. Gov. Coonman and the AG in Virginia WORE blackface and everything is okay now.


38 posted on 02/21/2019 4:13:00 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: maggief

Tick tock, tick tock...


39 posted on 02/21/2019 4:18:23 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Halls
"They are wrapping up the season on Empire. So to fire him now would mess the show up. I’m hoping that once Empire is finished filming that Smollett will get the boot. Here’s hoping!"

Surely you can't be serious. He should be booted off the set for what he did. NO EXCUSES FOR HIM. For Fox to include him in ANY scene after what he did is absolute justification for boycotting Fox.

BLACK PRIVILEGE is a HUGE problem in this country and has been for many years. Just ask the Muslim Marxist Gay Illegal Alien who sat in our White House and COMMITTED A MULTIPLE OF SERIOUS CRIMES FOR 8 LONG YEARS.. WHITE PRIVILEGE? Just ask Roseanne about WHITE PRIVILEGE.. it's a MYTH.

FU SMOLLETT.. WHERE'S MY APOLOGY? YOU OWE EVERY TRUMP SUPPORTER AN APOLOGY!!!

FU EMPIRE..

FU FOX.

MAGA!!!!

40 posted on 02/21/2019 4:21:32 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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