Smollett's Media Hoax.

Jussie Smollett crafted a hoax
that may have hurt the people his
cause represents .

PT Barnum once said  " There is a sucker born every minute...." Case in point,  (1)>>our American media created such a hysteria about Jussie Smollett. That it was ballooned to a type of anti- Trump propaganda by the left media outlets . A week after her candid interview with Jussie Smollett about the actor’s alleged attack, “Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts has reacted to news of Smollett’s arrest. In a turn of events, Smollett was taken into police custody Thursday and is being charged with filing a false police report.  (1.1)>>IT SMELLED FISHY from the start , while Smollett first reported that five white males with red hats attacked him. The so called pro-Trump racists, if you wanted believe Jussie  they  did this to him . Who knows what his real motives for the hoax is .  Some Rightwing Radio hosts I tuned into today seemed to speculate  that he wanted to start some kind of Rodney King type riot, but  I think it seems that something bigger could be at work .  It made no sense at all  when the rest of his story changed after his TV interview on GMA with Robin Roberts    . BIG question ? How many racist homophobes wander around an upscale neighborhood of liberal Chicago at 2 a.m. carrying rope and bleach and yelling about "MAGA country"?How many racist homophobes have heard of "Empire" and could recognize Jussie Smollett from his gay character on the show? Red flags were visible everywhere, including the fact that the Chicago police told Malkin they initially hadn't heard the "MAGA country" claims. Early claims that Smollett had broken ribs were false.     So Smollett was out at 2 a.m. walking around at night when the outside temperatures were cold enough to freeze your A at -20 degrees . While that part may have made me suspect that Jussie was lying . BUT WHO CARES if the Left wing media has  NOW a good now excuse to go after Donald Trump for fueling the white racists.  It played for the next 24 hours . Watching CNN , MSNBC,  etc  . Jussie was overtaking Trump as the center of Media attention .  Next is  (2)>>how the media jumped without waiting for the police report . With that assumption  And I suppose it’s easy to lose what’s important with all the panic and intersectional hatred and with liberal identity politics gone bad in this Smollett story."MAGA country" hate-crime hoax is just the latest example.Smollett undoubtedly wanted his scheme to embarrass the president, but even more, he wanted to confirm every self-hating delusion about how horrible America is.  CNN reporter Brooke Baldwin said after the alleged incident, "This is America in 2019."  She would have been more accurate to say, "This is how all of us on the left see America in 2019." With out question . Jussie hurt not only Black Americans , Jews and in particular the LGBTQ [ which Jussie represents]  community with his hoax . Its serious , it was such bad taste. 

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(1)>>our American media created such a hysteria about Jussie .  It was a perfect anti-Trump story. It fit the prevailing narrative of many in the media (who are themselves liberal Democrats) that Trump supporters are racist and just itching to find some minorities to beat up.(1)>>IT SMELLED FISHY .   Further, worth noting that JS has repeatedly identified his alleged attackers as white and motivated by racism. I'm not really sure why anyone thinks 1 is particularly better than 2 for Smollett or the people who jumped to conclusions despite the suspicious nature of the original facts. Both create a very bad look for Smollett and his defenders/promoters. The "reality TV shock factor" is that He claimed to be assaulted by Trump supporters in a hate crime and gave a very inconsistent and unbelievable story. There were all sorts of reasons people doubted it- the unlikelihood of anyone recognizing him at night in -20 degree temperatures or the fact he was carrying a cell phone in one hand, subway sandwich in the other, and 'fought back' yet was on video walking away unscathed, sandwich in hand.His story was very widely touted in the media and lots of celebrities, talk shows, politicians, etc lined up to denounce the attack and use it as a reason to condemn Trump. Multiple democratic presidential candidates issued statements condemning the supposed hate crime, and Jussie was given prime airtime to tell his story, and we got to watch Ellen Page go on Colbert's show and give a real impassioned denunciation of Trump and whatnot.Now in the past few days details have trickled out from the Chicago PD investigation that are establishing how Jussie Smollett orchestrated the whole thing. The two attackers he had described as white men wearing MAGA caps were actually two black nigerian extras from Empire and his gym buddies. His botched attempt to mislead police with doctored cell phone logs led investigators right to his conspirators, and police quickly had proof of them using Lyft to that part of town and back, and buying the clothesline used as a noose. When questioned, they spilled the beans and said Jussie paid them $4000 to stage the assault. Now we're at the point where the nigerians have been released without charges, but police wish to question Jussie again, and he has lawyered up hardcore. (2)>>how the media jumped.  I Think that media reporters  may have deep in side felt that Smollett was PROBABLY A LIER , but look at the sympathy factor that plaied into it .  Black & Gay , but who would think that he was lying ?  . JUST imagine if a Jew faked a hate crime , or if a women falsely  accused a man of rape. It would be unheard of . But it may have hurt real victims of hate crimes. I think we first must investigate claims regardless of whom and how long they occured , not leave a final judgement untill all facts are gathered . BUT the Media like wolves saw a perfect oppertunity to weaponize the hoax .