And the award for worst performance in a hate hoax is…
Jussie Smollett, the black, homosexual television actor. A jury in Chicago found him guilty of lying about being attacked by two white men in Chicago in 2019.
Sentient beings have always known Smollett lied. But for days after the supposed attack, leftists from President Biden on down declared that the lavender thespian had been the victim of the most nefarious crime of the 21st century.
Indeed, they said a lot more about Smollett than about the recent Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre, in which six died and 61 were injured. Then again, the suspect in those murders is an anti-white black supremacist.
The verdict says more about the people who defended Smollett than it does about him, a man who earned $100,000 for each episode of Fox’s Empire. Smollett fits the leftist narrative; Waukesha’s dead don’t.
The Verdict
However compelling Smollett’s story was to organized leftism, the jury didn’t believe it. After nine hours of deliberation, it decided the actor’s acting wasn’t good enough.
Jurors found him guilty on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police.
Smollett launched the big lie in the wee hours of January 29, 2019. He claimed he was returning from a 2 a.m. munchies run to Subway when two white men pounced.
“This is MAGA country,” they supposedly snarled. “Aren’t you that Empire faggot, n****r!?” They beat him, doused him with bleach, and wrapped a noose around his neck.
It was a life-changing trauma. Except that it didn’t happen. Gumshoes in the City of Big Shoulders smelled a rat. It didn’t add up.
Consider what Smollett asked them, and everyone else, to believe. Two MAGA dudes went hunting for Smollett in downtown Chicago in the wee hours of a frigid January morning. Two white MAGA dudes watched Empire. And two white MAGA dudes not only recognized Smollett but also knew his “sexual preference,” as they say.
Cops spent $130,000 investigating, and quickly learned that no white men ever attacked Smollett. He paid two Nigerian brothers to do it. That’s what cops proved two years ago, and that’s why the jury found him guilty.
Smollett will appeal.
Leftist Rage
Yet the reaction to an obvious hoax showed just how invested in their false narrative leftists are. They really believed that Trump’s America was a benighted province of hate and homophobia, where white nightriding MAGA men had permission to terrorize blacks, homosexuals, and anyone else they didn’t like.
Looking at them today, the Twitter hysterics are priceless.
“What happened today to @JussieSmollett must ever be tolerated in this country,” then presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted:
We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism a new place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.
Then Democrat Senator Kamala Harris:
@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.… This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.
Other leftists were no less dramatic. “There is no such thing as ‘racially charged,’” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted. “This attack was not ‘possibly homophobic.’ It was a racist and homophobic attack.”
Except that it wasn’t.
Representative Rashia Tlaib of Michigan, a foul-mouthed Palestinian Democrat, risibly claimed that Smollett was “one of the most famous black and gay men in America” and that “the dangerous lies spewing from the right wing is killing and hurting our people.”
Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) blamed President Trump for “dog-whistling” hate “every day.”
New Jersey Democrat Senator Cory Booker and MSNBC’s fact-challenged Joy Reid offered images of hooded Klansman terrorizing blacks with tall trees and short ropes.
“The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern day lynching,” Booker fumed.
Tweeted Reid:
Nooses never really disappeared as messages of a very specific kind of terror, but every time they’re used, my God it’s chilling. Praying for Jussie’s full recovery. And for us all.
Yet none of these worthies mentioned race or hate in their few comments about the Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre.
Biden said “we don’t have all the facts yet” about a “horrific act of violence,” while Harris called it “violence that occurred.” Not a word about “hate,” despite the suspect’s oft-expressed hatred of whites.
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted support for bail reform, which likely led to the massacre, a day later. Tlaib said nothing that a Google search turns up. Neither did Booker.
Reid, perhaps for the first time in her career, was strangely silent. So also, beyond initial coverage, are the rest of the leftist media.
