February 19, 2019
The full horror of Jussie Smollett’s botched plot starting to scare progs
By Thomas Lifson
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...tts_botched_plot_starting_to_scare_progs.html
The specter of a new “trial of the century” for Jussie Smollett, over what looks like his staging of a fake hate crime is scaring the leaders of the identity politics movement that dominates the Democratic Party. Two presidential candidates, Cory Booker and Smollett’s longstanding friend and associate Kamala Harris, immediately endorsed and exploited the burst of saturation coverage by the national media to hype the “anti-lynching law” they have been using to burnish their credentials with the victimologist constituency.
The nightmare would be a televised trial over the felonious filing of a false police report, and other possible charges. Yesterday, two famous progs started the campaign to treat Jussie as a victim of a psychiatric malady, and therefore properly given treatment, not a prison sentence of up to 3 years.
Rep. Eric Swalwell has taken time off from his incessant unproven claims of Trump collusion with Russia to express sympathy for poor Jussie, and “hope he gets the help he needs.”
I am rather certain that he does not regard a stretch in Stony Lonesome as “help.” More like an expensive, cushy, private psychiatric hospital, the sort of place other celebrities go for “recovery” from substance abuse and sexual predation charges. Because Swalwell is “very close” to making his 2020 presidential campaign announcement, he has a lot at stake in maintaining the narrative that keeps blacks and gays on the Democrats’ plantation.
Charles Blow, the race-obsessed New York Times editorial board member, thinks that Smollett – a “most gracious person” – must be insane, or at least a psychopath. The possibility that he carefully calculated a stunt that (had it not been botched) could have made him a superstar, does not seem to occur to him. (One minute video): (video at link)
The Chicago Police Department wisely is keeping as tight a lid as possible on its investigation because premature official disclosure could damage the trial. But leaks by rank-and-file cops to local Chicago media (who have shown up the national media for the shallow drive-by propagandists they are) and careful analysis primarily by conservative bloggers allow us to put together a very plausible hypothesis of the actual plan Smollett had in mind -- a plan that could have worked and catapulted him into the ranks of civil rights heroes/political influencers/multimedia superstars.
Of course, I must include the disclaimer that all the facts are not yet on the table, and that we can’t say with 100% certainty that Smollett hoaxed us. So, yes, he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and what follows is supposition based on unofficial information. That said, we’re not morons, so we can put to and two together and tentatively infer what the plan was.
John Nolte of Breitbart has done exactly that in a must-read article.
Here is the full 16 minute interview. (Roberts's softball approach to a story that already had big holes showing is already causing her grief.
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[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=pXLx5OY21Bk"]Jussie Smollett FULL Interview on alleged attack | ABC News Exclusive - YouTube[/ame]
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So, it appears that Smollett intended the staged attack to be recorded, but botched the location because he did not realize the CCTV surveillance camera was pointed in the opposite direction. Recall that the Nigerian brothers – one an extra on his show, the other his personal trainer – reportedly rehearsed the attack with Smollett, meaning that this professional actor was probably able to stage a very convincing video. The very night of the failed staging for the surveillance camera, Smollett has just returned from New York City where he had performed hours before a startlingly similar scenario, as the UK Daily Mail reports:
Nolte continues:
Those of us old enough to remember the 1992 riots in Los Angeles triggered by endless broadcasts of the [edited] tape of police officers beating Rodney King understand the potential for civil strife had similar media treatment been possible for the fictional “MAGA attack.” Would the Chicago Police department have been able to devote major resources to investigating the signs of hoax, had video been available? Consider the demonization heaped upon skeptics of Smollett’s tale, claims that they were victimizing him again. Video evidence would have closed the case, in my opinion. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson likely would have denied requests to investigate any of the red flags in Smollett’s tale had the city been wracked by riots.
It almost worked, but for Smollett choosing the wrong CCTV camera for his stunt. Now, it is a crisis for Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Robin Roberts, and many other pols (like Nancy Pelosi, who deleted her tweet on the attack) and media figures who jumped ont he incident, accepting Sollett's tale as gospel and victimizing me and every other Trump supporter.
The full horror of Jussie Smollett’s botched plot starting to scare progs
By Thomas Lifson
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...tts_botched_plot_starting_to_scare_progs.html
The specter of a new “trial of the century” for Jussie Smollett, over what looks like his staging of a fake hate crime is scaring the leaders of the identity politics movement that dominates the Democratic Party. Two presidential candidates, Cory Booker and Smollett’s longstanding friend and associate Kamala Harris, immediately endorsed and exploited the burst of saturation coverage by the national media to hype the “anti-lynching law” they have been using to burnish their credentials with the victimologist constituency.
The nightmare would be a televised trial over the felonious filing of a false police report, and other possible charges. Yesterday, two famous progs started the campaign to treat Jussie as a victim of a psychiatric malady, and therefore properly given treatment, not a prison sentence of up to 3 years.
Rep. Eric Swalwell has taken time off from his incessant unproven claims of Trump collusion with Russia to express sympathy for poor Jussie, and “hope he gets the help he needs.”
I am rather certain that he does not regard a stretch in Stony Lonesome as “help.” More like an expensive, cushy, private psychiatric hospital, the sort of place other celebrities go for “recovery” from substance abuse and sexual predation charges. Because Swalwell is “very close” to making his 2020 presidential campaign announcement, he has a lot at stake in maintaining the narrative that keeps blacks and gays on the Democrats’ plantation.
Charles Blow, the race-obsessed New York Times editorial board member, thinks that Smollett – a “most gracious person” – must be insane, or at least a psychopath. The possibility that he carefully calculated a stunt that (had it not been botched) could have made him a superstar, does not seem to occur to him. (One minute video): (video at link)
The Chicago Police Department wisely is keeping as tight a lid as possible on its investigation because premature official disclosure could damage the trial. But leaks by rank-and-file cops to local Chicago media (who have shown up the national media for the shallow drive-by propagandists they are) and careful analysis primarily by conservative bloggers allow us to put together a very plausible hypothesis of the actual plan Smollett had in mind -- a plan that could have worked and catapulted him into the ranks of civil rights heroes/political influencers/multimedia superstars.
Of course, I must include the disclaimer that all the facts are not yet on the table, and that we can’t say with 100% certainty that Smollett hoaxed us. So, yes, he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and what follows is supposition based on unofficial information. That said, we’re not morons, so we can put to and two together and tentatively infer what the plan was.
John Nolte of Breitbart has done exactly that in a must-read article.
Here is the full 16 minute interview. (Roberts's softball approach to a story that already had big holes showing is already causing her grief.
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[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=pXLx5OY21Bk"]Jussie Smollett FULL Interview on alleged attack | ABC News Exclusive - YouTube[/ame]
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So, it appears that Smollett intended the staged attack to be recorded, but botched the location because he did not realize the CCTV surveillance camera was pointed in the opposite direction. Recall that the Nigerian brothers – one an extra on his show, the other his personal trainer – reportedly rehearsed the attack with Smollett, meaning that this professional actor was probably able to stage a very convincing video. The very night of the failed staging for the surveillance camera, Smollett has just returned from New York City where he had performed hours before a startlingly similar scenario, as the UK Daily Mail reports:
Nolte continues:
Those of us old enough to remember the 1992 riots in Los Angeles triggered by endless broadcasts of the [edited] tape of police officers beating Rodney King understand the potential for civil strife had similar media treatment been possible for the fictional “MAGA attack.” Would the Chicago Police department have been able to devote major resources to investigating the signs of hoax, had video been available? Consider the demonization heaped upon skeptics of Smollett’s tale, claims that they were victimizing him again. Video evidence would have closed the case, in my opinion. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson likely would have denied requests to investigate any of the red flags in Smollett’s tale had the city been wracked by riots.
It almost worked, but for Smollett choosing the wrong CCTV camera for his stunt. Now, it is a crisis for Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Robin Roberts, and many other pols (like Nancy Pelosi, who deleted her tweet on the attack) and media figures who jumped ont he incident, accepting Sollett's tale as gospel and victimizing me and every other Trump supporter.