Originally posted by Robtard
See, I've read conflicting info that Smollet didn't make the "MAGA hat" claims in his initial report, that was added later, by who I don't know. The noose was left for apparent evidence reasons.edit: Seems he's said in an interview that he didn't add the "MAGA hat" comment, that calling him a "fa&&ot" and "ni&&er" was enough to indicate the racism and bigotry behind the alleged attack.
His manager claimed the MAGA thing and he then confirmed it in a second interview with the police.
This is why the guy is complicit either way. If his manager did this behind his back...he decided to go along with it once the lie was out there.
Originally posted by Surtur
The weird thing is some are disappointed. Legit disappointed a gay black man didn't get his ass beat.
Remember when a woman who made accusations of sexual assault, came out and admitted she made the thing up? On Rolling Stone Magazine's board, people were like, "Oh no! Now people will be more afraid to come forward!"
Like it's better if no one ever knew.
What I love is the reaction from some like the media did nothing wrong lol. I've seen a lot of "there isn't an issue, once the story began to fall apart we rightly questioned it".
Yeah no lol. They didn't do that cuz the story didn't just start falling apart. It has been falling apart since day 1.
This is TDS on a massive scale. I get it, a lot of people think he's a bad president, but they need to seriously stop this crusade to present Trump as the impetus for every single act of hatred and violence in this country. It is a legit sickness people have. Trump is driving people literally crazy. I'm tired of hearing people whine he's ruining everything up to and including their damn sex lives lol. That is psychotic.
And then their major gripes over this entire thing consist mostly of whining "conservatives will use this against us in the future!" or "conservatives are giddy over this". These are the same people who practically salivated at the mouth and jizzed in their pants all at the same time over the prospect of evil white maga loving trumpers beating down a black homosexual celebrity.
Originally posted by Silent Master
Remember when journalists used to fact check their stories?
I do, I do. I remember when it was a huge scandal and career ending to have a mainstream media presence and get something wrong on purpose. It was ruinous to do that.
Not that political jabs and partisan media didn't exist. It existed. It always has.
Originally posted by Silent Master
Remember when journalists used to fact check their stories?
And they now scream and shout and fact checkers for the media say "Trump lied 6000 times!" and how are we even supposed to take it seriously?
And what do they even consider a lie? These people "fact checked" him when he said he bought fast food for some athletes and it was stacked a mile high.
Fake news does have a long history though.
Yeah...that's from the 17th century lol. This shit has been getting people killed for centuries. It seems to die down every now and then. It sure as hell flared up during the era of William Randolph Hearst. Now it seems it have come again.