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Given tonight’s Smollett news, it’s worth reposting this, about why so many people in Chicago cared about getting this right.

 

In the time since the “attack,” 18 people have been killed, here including a 1 year old. We didn’t need this. We can’t afford it.

 

 

 

.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kass-20190219-story.html

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10 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

One more time. In your original post on this you put conservative political hoaxes on par with liberal political hoaxes. Then you stated that you would be proven correct if there was even one example of conservative hoaxes found. So, we found a mentally ill college student who made up some stupidshit. Nice. You can now claim that you've won something. I hope you've learned that providing links is a good thing here and providing links that back up your point is an even better thing.

Paralympic version of political trolling?

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3 hours ago, TPS said:

I wonder if this is the FBI taking headlines away from the Smolett thing. 

 

Not the only organization that is very literally above the law.

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9 hours ago, whatdrought said:

 

I think in retrospect that Cruz might have had a chance. Trump lost a lot of voters who didn't want to play the "good, not great" game or didn't want to compromise on morality and character in the conservative ideas. I respect that, but I also wonder about Christians/Catholics voting for a Mormon without any trouble on that side. That being said, I really liked Ted Cruz. I think he could have potentially won because people on the right so hated Hillary, but we'll never know. 

I will say that Trumps biggest advantage over Hillary was that she is/was a joke of a candidate who assumed the end, and he is/was a massive troll who gave no *****. 

 

You also make a great point in that the liberal media helped Trump immensely by sensationalizing him during the primary. They must have believed he was the path of least resistance for their queen B. 

Haven't caught up on the whole thread yet, but at this point, right here, I voted for Ted Cruz in Oklahoma in the primaries.  He was my guy from day 1, and I fully admit I was one of the butt-hurt that a non-conservative won our primary election, and abstained from the general.  I regret it, as the orange-man has lead as conservatively as any since Reagan, and in some ways, more.  I WILL be casting my vote for orange-man when given my next chance!  I'll catch up on the rest of it tomorrow, but just had to mention my admiration of Ted Cruz.

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1 hour ago, TtownBillsFan said:

Haven't caught up on the whole thread yet, but at this point, right here, I voted for Ted Cruz in Oklahoma in the primaries.  He was my guy from day 1, and I fully admit I was one of the butt-hurt that a non-conservative won our primary election, and abstained from the general.  I regret it, as the orange-man has lead as conservatively as any since Reagan, and in some ways, more.  I WILL be casting my vote for orange-man when given my next chance!  I'll catch up on the rest of it tomorrow, but just had to mention my admiration of Ted Cruz.

 

I voted Cruz in the primary and really wasn’t a fan of Trump at all. That being said, I voted Trump in main because I didn’t want Hillary to get elected. I have been very happy with Trump so far and I plan on voting for him again. He’s not a conservative on a lot of issues, but he’s definitely aiming in the right directions.

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http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/19/15-recent-hate-crime-hoaxes-might-make-suspect-theres-trend/

 

Cut to 2019, and an era in which the American left daily imbibes a different kind of fantasy porn to titillate the insatiable thirst for outrage. Enter Jussie Smollett, an actor who knows his audience. He is not the first actor to turn to a type of porn to revive his career. So he scripts two characters to help him act out a scene of outrage porn for the liberal media in which he pretends to be victimized by two Donald Trump supporters.

 

The script checks all the right victim boxes for a good outrage fantasy. Watch this montage of outrage as the mainstream media hilariously buy into it. Over and over, they ironically ask, “Who could believe that something like this could happen in 2019?” Who could believe it? So addicted are they to the narcotic of outrage, that the mere fantasy of the attack is all they need to believe it true.

You might remember a few other hoaxes over recent years. Smollett’s hoax reminds one of the failing talk show host, Morton Downey Jr. In the late 1980s, he attempted to revive public attention by falsely claiming to have been attacked by neo-Nazis.

Maybe you remember the Duke University lacrosse team being falsely accused of attacking an African-American exotic dancer. Or, more recently, you might remember a gay man falsely accusing Whole Foods of decorating his cake with the slur, “*****.”

We should also remember a recent video of a child being separated from his mother at the border that turned out to be a hoax. The Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation battle likewise had its share of hoaxes.

 

Such hoaxes are becoming common, even epidemic. There are hundreds of them, and several worthy authors (here, here, here, and here, for example) have done yeomen’s work compiling these lists from which I now draw. Here is a small sample of confirmed hoaxes in just the last few years.

November 2016

A pro-gay Indiana church was vandalized with slurs, including one reading, “Heil Trump.” It was actually the church’s own organ player who did it as a hoax.

Firefighters battled arson at a church attended by African Americans. On the wall of the church, the presumed arsonist wrote, “Vote Trump,” in an apparent reference to the upcoming election. It was a sick hoax perpetrated by one of the parishioners.

In Lafayette, Kentucky, a woman falsely claimed to have had her hijab stolen by white men wearing Trump hats.

December 2016

 

A Plainview, New York man was charged with perpetrating another vandalism hoax in which he painted several swastikas around the campus of Nassau Community College.

A Muslim woman made up another hijab-stealing hate crime hoax, claiming three men screaming “Donald Trump” attacked her.

April 2017: An arson case in Charlotte, North Carolina first appeared to be a hate crime when the perpetrator left a note reading, “Our newly elected president Donald Trump is our nation builder for White America. You all know that, we want our country back on the right track. We need to get rid of Muslims, Indians and all immigrants.” It was a hoax.

May 2017: A racist note left on the windshield of an African-American St. Olaf student touched off campus-wide protests and got the college to cancel classes. It was a hoax perpetrated as “strategy to draw attention to concerns about the campus climate.”

 

Read more hoaxes at the link

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