CNN makes it official: Smollett orchestrated the attack

One only has to pay attention to what Trump says to understand what he means by Make America Great Again. He wants to bring our country back to the economic standing it once had with the rest of the world. That means more jobs to keep Americans independent from government welfare programs. Immigration reform that prevents people from entering our country and sending back those who remain on expired visas. Making our military strong so that it serves as a deterrent to future wars. Securing our borders in a manner to make it nearly impossible for illegal crossings and drug smuggling. The list goes on and nowhere on it is there racism.
 
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is a 1971 book by community activist and writer Saul D. Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change.

The use of common enemy against a community was another theme of Rules for Radicals, as an uniting element in communities.

Alinsky would find an external antagonist to turn into a "common enemy" for the community within which he was operating. Often, this would be a local politician or agency that had some involvement with activity concerning the community. Once the enemy was established, the community would come together in opposition of it. This management of conflict heightened awareness within the community as to the similarities its members shared as well as what differentiated them from those outside of their organization. The use of conflict also allowed for the goal of the group to be clearly defined. With an established external antagonist, the community's goal would be to defeat that enemy.

Trump is that enemy....

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Called BS after the second description he made of the incident. So many things in his story did not make sense. This poster boy for everything the left sees as holy concocted a plot to immortalize himself in the eyes of the most righteous liberal zealots. He shot for an honor higher than Oscar winner, Emmy winner, SAG winner, Tony winner or any acting award. What is the pinnacle of sainthood to the left? He dared to strive to be a "victim". A level higher than any hard working patriot or first responder. The battle cry of the righteous (albeit hypocritical) socialist minded leftists "I am a victim punish the unrighteous conservative bigots".
 
Information is sketchy...

However right after the "Smollett incident'...
All of a sudden Kamala Harris introduces a bill to outlaw lynching..
Well, guess what... that is already illegal under several federal statues.

A closer reading of the bill...
Re-defines lynching to include 'intent' and lots of other vague language.

Some folks are suggesting the language in the bill 'could' be used to shut down right wing websites (long explanation... I do not have all the facts yet).
The internet has leveled the playing field... with a far left MSM...
Closing specific right wing internet presence(s) could significantly hurt the right in the 2020 election...
Thus giving the left an advantage.

Make no mistake...
The left DOES conspire to bend and twist the law...
To grow their agenda and power base.

We need to keep a sharp eye on them!
 
jenilyn said:
Considering how often the story keeps changing most people I know have decided to wait and see but are definitely skeptical. I also find it noteworthy that many of my friends of a different color have been skeptical from the get go. Way before I was.
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A lot of people were skeptical because the story was just too "perfect". The story never changed, nor did the truth. The media coverage changed, the outrage, feigned and otherwise only changed when CPD announced that they were investigating Smollett. As it turned out, they were obviously investigating him from the beginning. That's why they asked for his phone, not just to see if he was talking to his manager, but to see if it was damaged. The entire story didn't pass the smell test.

A lot of people see what they want to see when these sorts of things happen. I was outraged at the first reports of both this story and the Christian School boy story. However, with the very first detailed reports, it should have been obvious, and was to most, that these were highly unlikely to have occurred in the manner reported.

Illogical emotionally driven reactions are of course not limited to progressives, and conservative media sites drum up outrage too. The problem is that now the MSM is not only engaging in that practice, they do so with political perspective. It's not enough that bad things happen, they somehow must be linked to a cause.
Maybe it's because I'm older, and I grew up in a tumultuous time , but my experience in moving from those times to the relative calm of today has been that political Munchausen is not a rare occurrence. In fact the absolutely perfect crime against one's chosen world view, with the perfect antagonist, is probably less common now than than false report if such an obscene affront.

There is a meme going around that says "A better actor would have gotten away with it". The truth is that a better writer would have done so. This obviously came from the world of fiction. The best thing he can do now is to admit it all and ask for forgiveness. Everything he or his attorneys have said in the last two days has just dug the hole deeper and made him look more like a desperate liar.
 
I have found it interesting that people of color are still believing him. Even though the facts are now against what he keeps claiming... as in "Jussie paid the men who also worked on the same TV show with him... and those men have admitted he paid them to do this to him. The chicago police no longer consider him a victim and want to interview him again"

I heard a TV personality, who is black, say she still believes him. Her reasoning was that victims of hate crimes don't come forward because they feel people won't believe them, so we must believe all people who are victims and come forward. This was after she was told today that the police say it was the nigerian men who he paid to beat him up.

I could not believe she was not mad at the Jussie dude. Be mad at the liar, not the people who use common sense that if facts don't support the claim, it is false. She just sounds stupid.
 
Far West said:
I have found it interesting that people of color are still believing him. Even though the facts are now against what he keeps claiming... as in "Jussie paid the men who also worked on the same TV show with him... and those men have admitted he paid them to do this to him. The chicago police no longer consider him a victim and want to interview him again"

I heard a TV personality, who is black, say she still believes him. Her reasoning was that victims of hate crimes don't come forward because they feel people won't believe them, so we must believe all people who are victims and come forward. This was after she was told today that the police say it was the nigerian men who he paid to beat him up.

I could not believe she was not mad at the Jussie dude. Be mad at the liar, not the people who use common sense that if facts don't support the claim, it is false. She just sounds stupid.
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I think it's more their political affiliation than skin color. Loyal Dems want to believe him because of their hatred for Trump.
 
Far West said:
I have found it interesting that people of color are still believing him. Even though the facts are now against what he keeps claiming... as in "Jussie paid the men who also worked on the same TV show with him... and those men have admitted he paid them to do this to him. The chicago police no longer consider him a victim and want to interview him again"

I heard a TV personality, who is black, say she still believes him. Her reasoning was that victims of hate crimes don't come forward because they feel people won't believe them, so we must believe all people who are victims and come forward. This was after she was told today that the police say it was the nigerian men who he paid to beat him up.

I could not believe she was not mad at the Jussie dude. Be mad at the liar, not the people who use common sense that if facts don't support the claim, it is false. She just sounds stupid.
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A lot of my liberal friends who didn't believe him from the beginning were afraid to post their thoughts or say anything for fear of being chastised. Even now only one has posted anything without a disclaimer that he could somehow still be telling the truth. In private a couple have said they thought he was full of crap. What seems to be near universal in my tiny little slice of the world is that the ones who were around in the 60's and 70's , who saw violent opression often, we're the first to call BS. The younger folks seemed to fully believe his account and some still do. I admit this is a very small sample size here though and my experiences are anecdotal.
 
lotstodo said:
A lot of people were skeptical because the story was just too "perfect". The story never changed, nor did the truth. The media coverage changed, the outrage, feigned and otherwise only changed when CPD announced that they were investigating Smollett. As it turned out, they were obviously investigating him from the beginning. That's why they asked for his phone, not just to see if he was talking to his manager, but to see if it was damaged. The entire story didn't pass the smell test.

A lot of people see what they want to see when these sorts of things happen. I was outraged at the first reports of both this story and the Christian School boy story. However, with the very first detailed reports, it should have been obvious, and was to most, that these were highly unlikely to have occurred in the manner reported.

Illogical emotionally driven reactions are of course not limited to progressives, and conservative media sites drum up outrage too. The problem is that now the MSM is not only engaging in that practice, they do so with political perspective. It's not enough that bad things happen, they somehow must be linked to a cause.
Maybe it's because I'm older, and I grew up in a tumultuous time , but my experience in moving from those times to the relative calm of today has been that political Munchausen is not a rare occurrence. In fact the absolutely perfect crime against one's chosen world view, with the perfect antagonist, is probably less common now than than false report if such an obscene affront.

There is a meme going around that says "A better actor would have gotten away with it". The truth is that a better writer would have done so. This obviously came from the world of fiction. The best thing he can do now is to admit it all and ask for forgiveness. Everything he or his attorneys have said in the last two days has just dug the hole deeper and made him look more like a desperate liar.
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Sorry, I was in the car when I typed that response. I realize the story didn't change, the information we were given did. From the beginning TMZ was simply reporting what Smollett told police. That the guys shouted maga or whatever. They reported what they were told. Like I said, that wasn't some sort of liberal conspiracy. They reported what HE told police.

The whole thing is crazy and if he did set the whole thing up I'm curious what his motive is. I find it hard to believe that someone would go to this length to make Trump look bad considering he does a pretty good job of that himself. Why risk everything? I'm personally waiting for it all to settle before I comment on it further. Smollett still denies having anything to do with it. :Shrug: What I see are some of the folks who were apparently waiting for more facts, not actually waiting at all as long as the story supports their doubts. Reality is, unless you (not you just you in general) work for Chicago PD you don't know the whole story either.
 
Frankly, I don't understand how folks could not have been more skeptical about his story. You would have to approach the entire scenario wanting/wishing it to be true. MSM has just gone stupid. This is the News in 2019.

From Kavanaugh, Covington Catholic School Boys, and now Smollett...how can the MSM be so wrong at every turn on stories the MSM is blowing up?

- Jamie
 
Guard Dad said:
I think it's more their political affiliation than skin color. Loyal Dems want to believe him because of their hatred for Trump.
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This Jussie guy, buy concocting this elaborate story, is making it harder for those who are targets of hate crime.

Why is that not the discussion... that is my curiosity?
 
jenilyn said:
Sorry, I was in the car when I typed that response. I realize the story didn't change, the information we were given did. From the beginning TMZ was simply reporting what Smollett told police. That the guys shouted maga or whatever. They reported what they were told. Like I said, that wasn't some sort of liberal conspiracy. They reported what HE told police.

The whole thing is crazy and if he did set the whole thing up I'm curious what his motive is. I find it hard to believe that someone would go to this length to make Trump look bad considering he does a pretty good job of that himself. Why risk everything? I'm personally waiting for it all to settle before I comment on it further. Smollett still denies having anything to do with it. :Shrug: What I see are some of the folks who were apparently waiting for more facts, not actually waiting at all as long as the story supports their doubts. Reality is, unless you (not you just you in general) work for Chicago PD you don't know the whole story either.
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We know right now what CPD said to multiple reporters. So unless you think that CPD is badly mistaken, or that they are part of a conspiracy (I have heard this very thing), then you can no longer believe Smollett. If nothing else, he knew his attackers and they are black. He would have most likely recognized their voices. You cannot seriously believe the MAGA part of the story, and that should cast very serious doubt on any statement of his that he was not involved and is still a victim. At the very least.

I don't know why he would do it either, but sometimes causes need a good boogie man and some people are willing to create them to give a face to their perceived wrongs. I'm guessing perhaps it was his way to "prove" that his rantings on Twitter were right, and Donald Trump was responsible for the ills of our society. I read a lot of of his Twitter and there was hate there, real palpable hate.
 
If it's true he made it up you can be VERY CERTAIN I will be screaming my anger from the rooftop. I'm just waiting...


And as far as the Covington kids go, I don't need the media to tell me what I saw with my own eyes.
 
lotstodo said:
We know right now what CPD said to multiple reporters. So unless you think that CPD is badly mistaken, or that they are part of a conspiracy (I have heard this very thing), then you can no longer believe Smollett. If nothing else, he knew his attackers and they are black. He would have most likely recognized their voices. You cannot seriously believe the MAGA part of the story, and that should cast very serious doubt on any statement of his that he was not involved and is still a victim. At the very least.

I don't know why he would do it either, but sometimes causes need a good boogie man and some people are willing to create them to give a face to their perceived wrongs. I'm guessing perhaps it was his way to "prove" that his rantings on Twitter were right, and Donald Trump was responsible for the ills of our society. I read a lot of of his Twitter and there was hate there, real palpable hate.
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I'm not saying I believe him Just to be clear.
Guard Dad said:
I think it's more their political affiliation than skin color. Loyal Dems want to believe him because of their hatred for Trump.
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That might be true for some people. What I'm finding is that most of my black friends are dragging him pretty hard and it has nothing to do with politics. If this is all a lie they are rightly pissed off because he's taking away from legitimate cases racial violence. Had it not been for the part about the rope and the bleach it probably would have been a lot more believable. I will still choose to err on the side of compassion when it comes to victims until allegations are proven otherwise. I would rather care a lot and be wrong than not care at all and be right. The statistics on false allegations regarding abuse and violence it's still pretty low. These types of attacks actually do happen to people everyday which makes it even worse that someone would so publicly fake one (if that absolutely turns out to be the case).
 
As for a motive, CBS in Chicago and others are now reporting that CPD interviewed producers and others involved in the Empire show and several told CPD that Smollett was extremely angry that the racist letter sent to the show didn't garner the public attention he thought it should have.

This doesn't sound like much motive to me, but when viewed in light of his Twitter feed, it makes more sense. Obviously someone who would do something like this has emotional or mental issues as fabricating such an attack is not a rational act.
 
jenilyn said:
. If this is all a lie they are rightly pissed off because he's taking away from legitimate cases racial violence. ).
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I totally agree with this, and I've said the same thing about unwarranted charges of racism in the past. On top of that, his claims and some of the people who still believe him and are making such a stink over it are keeping the race pot unnecessarily stirred.

I hope everyone on all "sides" realizes that there are people and groups out there who want to keep it stirred. And I'm not referring to just one group or party, there is blame to go around. This is another reason we all need to be careful about jumping to conclusions on these matters.

Regarding a statement above about there being a liberal conspiracy behind this; I don't think that's the case. But many on the left sure were giddy about jumping on the Trump hating bandwagon once the news of the attack broke. Some of the left-leaning sites and publications, and many of the Hollywood loudmouths, to be more specific.
 
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