Black actor beaten and almost lynched by mask wearing thugs

madasheck · February 23, 2019, 1:00am

That I will agree with.

thinkingman · February 23, 2019, 1:01am

when you run out of ways (or give up attempts) to defend smollett/media do you just blurt out “goalposts” now?

john wayne, or “trump crazies” (who ever that is) are not pertinent to smollett’s crimes and sickness. nor are they to the uncredible disgraceful press.

thinkingman · February 23, 2019, 1:07am

“this is America in 2019”

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right. all our imaginations

lol

FreeAndClear · February 23, 2019, 1:28am

Yes that I agree with

coolidge · February 23, 2019, 2:51am

It must be hard these days to find actual racism. If a prominent liberal actor resorts to making it up. The media then follows along with no question. As long as it paints MAGA hat trump supporters as the bad people, then the story can be told over abd over until believed to be true.

Samm · February 23, 2019, 7:21am

madasheck:

Samm:

madasheck:

The story was reported as it was known.

No … the story was reported on as fact when it was nothing but an allegation. And then, the false allegation (as it began to become apparent to be just hours after the initial reports) was elaborated on and politicized for days afterward both by MSM and News Commentary even offering Smollet a platform to expound on his “ordeal” without challenging a word of his story. It was a disgustingly incompetent and dishonest display of biased partisan journalism.

Show me that every SINGLE SOLITARY NEWS REPORT from real media was not factually accurate as the facts were known at that time when the story first hit. And notice I said factually accurate as the facts were known – not guessed at – by pundits and posters on an internet message board.

Don’t be silly.

Samm · February 23, 2019, 7:24am

Telling someone to stop posting is a violation of the TOS regardless whether you are talking to a Mod or anyone else. At least it used to be.

BillBrown · February 23, 2019, 8:33am

madasheck:

Samm:

madasheck:

The story was reported as it was known.

No … the story was reported on as fact when it was nothing but an allegation. And then, the false allegation (as it began to become apparent to be just hours after the initial reports) was elaborated on and politicized for days afterward both by MSM and News Commentary even offering Smollet a platform to expound on his “ordeal” without challenging a word of his story. It was a disgustingly incompetent and dishonest display of biased partisan journalism.

Show me that every SINGLE SOLITARY NEWS REPORT from real media was not factually accurate as the facts were known at that time when the story first hit. And notice I said factually accurate as the facts were known – not guessed at – by pundits and posters on an internet message board.

The only fact that was known initially is that Smollett said the attack happened.
Almost every medium reported that the attack did happen rather than allegedly happened.

thinkingman · February 23, 2019, 1:00pm

i cant believe the beloved kamala harris jumped right on this narrative without even questioning it

wasnt she a prosecutor?

Snow96 · February 23, 2019, 1:41pm

What was said didn’t raise to that degree or I would have flagged the post and let another MOD deal with it.

BillBrown · February 23, 2019, 2:19pm

Now she says she is “disappointed”. Disappointed that there was no hate crime?

thinkingman · February 23, 2019, 2:31pm

ha yeah right disappointed that MAGAs are not lynching and america is not as racist as she thinks

such losers

conan · February 23, 2019, 4:34pm

It wasn’t a fact now was it?

Fake news is what they did report.,not to mention promoting propaganda which they become good at.

Axxowiz · February 23, 2019, 5:24pm

Yes Harris and Booker passed the much needed Jesse Smollett anti-lynching Bill after that.

Snow96 · February 23, 2019, 6:24pm

Here is her tweet

https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1098724827869995009/photo/1

If it was just the first part everyone could say good on you, but then when you read the second part from “at the same time” is her lamenting it wasn’t true, but if you look at the stat’s it was possible . . .

Rurudyne · February 23, 2019, 7:16pm

Judging by any number of fake hate crimes in recent years that got attention only to disappear down the nothing to see here hole I would suggest a few basic rules (some or all of which others may have suggested), it’s probably fake if:

A noose is somehow involved

It happened on a progressive college campus

The one who noticed is in any way a SJW

Doubly so if they’re in race/ethnicity/etc studies

It’s conforms to memes and stereotypes

MAGA merchandise is involved

madasheck · February 23, 2019, 7:27pm

She wasn’t supporting Smullet. She was speaking out against hate crimes – which are a problem for which I think there’s no disagreement. There’s no problem in what she posted.

madasheck · February 23, 2019, 7:30pm

Let’s not worry so much about fake crimes and worry a lot more about real ones.

conan · February 23, 2019, 7:43pm

Yeah…let ignore fake lying media/reporters that has become extremely dangerous to our Republic.

coolidge · February 23, 2019, 9:37pm

How would we know there is a problem? Democrats keep promoting these false accusations kind of tells otherwise.