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How many Democrat politicians are defending Smollett after the facts came out? None.
How many moronic Senators are on record making ridiculous claims before any facts came out? Two idiots, Kamala and Spartacus, calling it a modern day lynching, slimy Pelosi quietly deleting her tweet aster the truth came out and nutty Maxine.
...What will it take to get the activists in Media to reverse course and stop the insanity?
As long as they get you to click their sites or view them on television, absolutely nothing. They don't actually care about anyone, all they care about is the bottom line: "Does this controversy sell? Then keep selling it."
When people finally figure that out, maybe they'll start pulling their heads out of their backsides and stop rewarding the lies. And as I always have to say before someone starts puking up "Faux News" or whatever, they are all the same.
These two controversies are nothing new. Things like this have been happening for ages now. The news media gets all excited because what they think happened fits perfectly with their activist-Leftist ideology: There are massive roving bands of racist MAGA hat wearing thugs everywhere and they'll beat the ever living feces out of minorities and pretty much anyone they don't like. They are evil incarnate and there are tens of millions of them. This isn't actually true. It's not even remotely true. But the Left wants it to be true. In fact, they desperately need it to be true.
So what makes these two cases unique? There is a long-standing trend. The Mainstream News Media, Hollywood, Internet Social Media Platforms and other Left Biased entities all blindly jump on every story that seems to confirm their worldview. Twitter and Facebook routinely ban people for wrongthink when somebody says something so outrageous as "But a man isn't a woman." They completely ignore (when possible) or downplay every story about extreme violence and bad behavior from the Left. But at long last, these two cases look like they will bite bad actors on the Left squarely in the butt.
How many times have we heard, "Ah ah!! We've got him!! Trump will be impeached with the week!!" in the past two years? They've been wrong 100% of the time so far. How many fake hate crimes have happened where the majority of Americans still think a real hate crime actually happened?? Every case where a Muslim girl claims somebody in a MAGA hat ripped her hijab off and said mean things turned out to be completely made up by the girl reporting it. Numerous cases where minorities were threatened and racist graffiti was scrawled all over the place turned out to have been done by the supposed victims. How many of those stories do most Americans still believe were real? How many times have people on the Right been assaulted or accosted in public and the news media didn't think it was worth reporting? How many times does a mass shooting not play out the right way and it gets buried and forgotten? For example, 9 more people were killed in the Sutherland Springs church shooting than the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, but how often does Sutherland Springs get mentioned these days in the news or in conversation? David Hogg has been loved and adored non-stop. He gets to go to Harvard for being an anti-gun survivor of Stoneman Douglas. Meanwhile, how many people would even recognize the name or face of Stephen Willeford -- the good guy with the gun (an AR-15 as luck would have it) who shot back at and mortally wounded Devin Patrick Kelley (the Sutherland Springs shooter) as Kelley was leaving the church and the 26 people he had just killed. Willeford likely prevented Kelley from moving on to his next target and killing even more people, but Willeford's story doesn't fit the right narrative, so people tend to forget all about him. Antifa smacked one of their fellow Lefties over the head, leaving him unconscious with a severe concussion in a pool of his own blood. Two Latino-American marines were mobbed and severely beaten by another Antifa group who insisted that they were Proud Boys. Those two stories only barely got reported on and nobody at CNN or MSNBC thinks they're worth talking about anymore. But a high school kid in a MAGA hat who "smiled wrong" is worth hyper-obsessing about?
Smollett and Covington look like they're going to be the cases where the MSM, Democrats, Hollywood and the rest of the Left have their ridiculous bias slap them squarely across the face. The Washington Post is getting sued for $250 million for recklessly endangering the lives of a bunch of kids who did nothing wrong. I hope they have to pay out in full for their horrible behavior. More importantly, I hope they and the rest of the MSM actually learn something. Jussie Smollett is likely going to wind up in prison for attempting to cash in on the culture of hysteria in America. Will the American people take Cory Booker and Kamala Harris to task for blindly jumping to, "See!! This was a modern day attempted lynching!!" Will either of them even bother to apologize for fanning the flames of outrage over what turned out to be a hoax? How many at CNN, NYT, Forbes, Buzzfeed, MSNBC, AP, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. used the Smollett case to beat their chests and preached to America? How many will admit it and actually apologize for jumping to conclusions without any evidence?
What will it take to get the activists in Media to reverse course and stop the insanity?
You forgot to mention the young turks. Alt media, social media and mainstream media had a field day with Charlottesville in 2017 and another field day with roseanne barr tweets in 2018. Both events are a victory to them in the name of ending racism in America, as well as a moral victory. Than you have kavanguah hearings , convingtin teens and last smollet hoax which have been a victory for the right. What needs to happen is that the types of media I have mentioned, the left jumped into outrage mode without doing any sort of research or fact checking. I also feel sorry for the left now due to Kavanagh hearings, Covington and jussie smollett did not go in thier favor.
Lemon is a racist, bigoted moron-even by CNN standards. I would hope they would salvage some credibility by firing his useless azz.
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