Why are the radicalized right wing extremists obsessed with Justin Smollett?

[Legion]

If you didn't instantly know that this story was a staged hate-hoax, then you are a gullible fool and you should take steps to mitigate your lack of critical thought processes.

[Legion]

An attack like that isn't completely off the charts crazy.

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"Oddly", none of your examples are anything like Jussie the joke's hate hoax.

[Flash]

"Waiting for the facts to come out from the beginning" also applies to cons who called him a liar from day one.

Who called him a liar from day one?

[domer76]

Are they racist? Would they be just as obsessed if it was one of Sarah Paloon's kids?

Just like most other RW obsessions. Trump does it all the time.

It’s a lame diversion from the real shitstorms the right faces every day in this country.

Diversions from the daily onslaught of lies, bullshit, indictments, arrests, guilty pleas, prison time that surrounds this administration.

[christiefan915]

The cops and folks getting Smolletted are two different groups. The cops did their job. They took the report from the victim and then did their research until it led them to where we are now. Because a reader of Smollett story could tell it didn’t pass the sniff test doesn’t change how the cops go about their jobs.

The point is that the cops treated it like a legitimate attack from the beginning, and so did libs like me. And as the threads here show, libs are accepting that it looks like a hoax after the cops did their work.

I don't believe this is about Smollett, I believe in a roundabout way it's about trump supporters. What most cons are jumping on is the "MAGA" reference when they're making a judgment.

[christiefan915]

Jussie attempted to start race riots in Chicago and blame Trump supporters for attention. Now he has it, he got what he wanted.

Prove it.

[christiefan915]

That's a far cry from this:

Don't be pedantic. It's unbecoming.

[domer76]

Basically, liberals are fucking stupid people

IRONY ALERT!

[cawacko]

The point is that the cops treated it like a legitimate attack from the beginning, and so did libs like me. And as the threads here show, libs are accepting that it looks like a hoax after the cops did their work.

I don't believe this is about Smollett, I believe in a roundabout way it's about trump supporters. What most cons are jumping on is the "MAGA" reference when they're making a judgment.

You’re admitting your own preconceived bias and conflating the job cops have to do with people reading the story

[christiefan915]

You’re admitting your own preconceived bias

Ha, so none of us are innocent of it!

[christiefan915]

LOL
you really don't know how to decide for yourself, do you? You don't know how to think about evidence and plausibility? I feel sorry for you NPCs

I did decide for myself, moron. I decided to believe him unless there was proof to the contrary.

[countryboy]

I still believe Smollet…...I don't believe in the racist white man, his kops, or his media.

I'm not blowing any tweets up nor am I running from you racist fucks.

The kops have a track record white people don't know about.

Lol

[christiefan915]

Like you believed Roy Moore and Brett Kavanaugh?

There was more evidence to condemn those two than there is to condemn Jussie. Not that you would admit it...

[tinfoil]

I did decide for myself, moron. I decided to believe him unless there was proof to the contrary.

Yeah, we saw that. That's my point. You are really stupid and this proves it. You are even willing to be proud of being stupid. LOL

[leaningright]

Just wondering why liberals are being criticized for believing Smollett when it's no different from what the cops believed at first.

This is as far as I read this thread. I don’t criticize “liberals” in general for believing the guy at first, but here is my take on why we (and I’m including myself in the “we”) are following this somclosely. For me it epitomizes what I believe to be a marked and evident strong if not extreme liberal bias in the news media. The reporters were almost giddy thinking they could link such an attack on Donald Trump supporters. They spent two or three days talking about the fact that the attackers were wearing those hats and some even alluded that such people were typical of the president’s supporters.

So every time DT talks about “fake news” I understand why there are a huge bunch of people ready to pat him on the back and comment something like, “you’re dadgummed right.”

On a related note I see that the kid accused of mocking the Native American at the Lincoln Memorial is suing the Washington Post. All I can say is, “Go get ‘em, kid.”