Jussie Smollett: great example of supply v demand

[_Bach]

“Hands Up - Don’t Think”: the new liberal protest march chant?

His entire hoax was met with instant acceptance and, perhaps, glorification in a warped way, from the mainstream media, Hollywood celebs, the LGBT community and liberal politicians. Smollett knew there Is a far greater demand for racism, discrimination and TDS from the left than actual supply could ever possibly meet. It was simple supply/demand economics in his mind. And he was so accurate, it sold out in a matter of hours!

Unfortunately he just lacked common sense in execution: He paid the two Nigerian brothers WITH A PERSONAL CHECK!!!

From Kavanaugh to Covington through Smollett. The left just can’t overcome their own ignorance and gullibility for some headlines!!!

[_Maksutov]

Bach!!! You need to go back and edit your Subject line!!!! It doesn't include the words "the left"!!!!!!!!

[_Bach]

Bach!!! You need to go back and edit your Subject line!!!! It doesn't include the words "the left"!!!!!!!!

No. It’s right there in the first two words of the Subjecr line.

Think, read, before posting Mak. You, perhaps of all here, have the most time for that!

[_Analytics]

Actually, I think the vast majority of liberals were at work and otherwise living busy, productive lives. Some may have briefly heard this story on the news, but most probably did not.

In contrast, a huge swath of the right spend an inordinate amount of time listening to hate jocks on AM Radio and Fox News, and spent hours upon hours listening to propogandists using this weird isolated incident as an excuse to fan their hate of the other half of America.

The fact that you had the time to watch enough propoganda to think this is even an issue proves that you aren't a business executive. Business executives don't have time to watch so much propoganda.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

That's BS, Analytics and I'm fairly certain you know it. For example:

http://www.dailycal.org/2019/02/20/man- ... ey-campus/

Man tabling for conservative group allegedly assaulted on UC Berkeley campus

Like hundreds of other instances of harassment, hatred and violent attacks against Trump supporters, this story HASN'T been covered by:

CNN
MSNBC
Vox
Huffington Post
Salon
Associated Press
The BBC
The New York Times
ABC
The Guardian
Time
NPR
USA Today
The Washington Post
LA Times
Reuters
BuzzFeed
Or any of the others.

The only news organizations I can find covering it are Fox News, Campus Reform and the linked source. Not only id the 'centrist' media not covering it, they aren't turning it into the type of narrative this would be turned into if this happened to be a MAGA hat wearer assaulting a "progressive" student.

Only ONE - yes, ONE - of the above national media organizations has reported on a firearm being pulled on a couple a few days ago for wearing MAGA hats:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ma ... supporters

Credit to BuzzFeed for temporarily stepping outside of its echo chamber - it's a big anomaly that I can't explain.

Put this in context: the national media, a few weeks ago, was happy to devote round-the-clock resources to dragging KIDS through the mud for smirking while wearing a MAGA hat, all the while refusing to focus on the GROWN-UP Black Israelites and Native Americans calling them f******, incest babies and crackers, or telling them to "go back to Europe."

This is the same national media that has, in 2019 alone:

Propagated a hoax hate crime started by actor Jussie Smollett with zero corroborating evidence

Afforded sympathetic treatment to an actual ISIS terrorist:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/americas ... index.html

Falsely characterized the Jazmine Barnes tragedy as a "hate crime":

https://news.yahoo.com/fatal-shooting-7 ... 13570.html

Peddled, for days, a BuzzFeed News exclusive that turned out to be a hoax:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics ... index.html

Created endless narratives about racism in the Trump administration based on isolated incidents ("Trump is causing this"), but failed to create the same narrative for the Virginia Governor and AG for adorning blackface.

Mostly buried the Reid Hoffman story (i.e. LinkedIn's CEO spent $100,000 spreading disinformation about Roy Moore's electoral campaign; this is the same campaign budget spent by the Internet Research Agency that received months worth of press coverage).

In one publication, OUT magazine, accused Trump of racism for his policy encouraging the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality:

https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2019/2 ... ist-tactic

Is refusing to cover the Ocasio-Cortez PAC issue, which indicates she's as much a part of the swamp as those she criticises:

https://Twitter.com/ltthompso/status/10 ... 1215362048

And if we go back to late 2018, and in a sign of how they're trying to make racism socially acceptable again, uniformly came out in defence of a racist and bigoted New York Times journalist called Sarah Jeong who, among thousands of other tweets, claimed she loves "being cruel to old white men" and believes "white people should live underground like grovelling goblins."

So, please. Let's drop any and all pretense the vast majority of the media is centrist or has any modicum of a non-Liberal bias. And no, reframing Leftists as centrists is about as effective as framing Republicans as Nazis. It's tiresome and it's not working. It's ripping our country apart.

- Doc

[_Kevin Graham]

Is refusing to cover the Ocasio-Cortez PAC issue, which indicates she's as much a part of the swamp as those she criticises:

https://Twitter.com/ltthompso/status/10 ... 1215362048

- Doc

Would it matter at all to you that this has been debunked? Even if she did hire her boyfriend, what's the real crime here? I don't get it. But she didn't.

https://Twitter.com/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/status/1098385600959467521

[_Bach]

That's ____, Analytics and I'm fairly certain you know it. For example:

http://www.dailycal.org/2019/02/20/man- ... ey-campus/

[SNIP!]

So, please. Let's drop any and all pretense the vast majority of the media is centrist or has any modicum of a non-Liberal bias. And no, reframing Leftists as centrists is about as effective as framing Republicans as Nazis. It's tiresome and it's not working. It's ripping our country apart.

- Doc

WOW!!! Doc that was so great! So well put and so well supported by reference and facts.

I don’t believe Analytics has even got up off the floor yet!! Every time he posts here he always seems to more clearly identify himself and erase the last four letters in his monicker!!

Job well done Doc!

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Maybe I'm not understanding the complaint, so I can admit if I misread it. The FEC says 'she' paid a PAC (she's against those) which paid a company, which paid her boyfriend. I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds illegal to me.



Maybe Trump has me on edge about people draining the swamp, and then get swampy, though there's no true comparison between him and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

- Doc

[_MeDotOrg]

A character introducing the story at the beginning of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest says:

It's the truth even if it didn't happen.

And if I had to guess, Jussie Smollett rationalized to himself that he was just pushing forward the narrative of history. This happens a lot in our country right now, where the lines are being blurred between narrative and reality.

Kudos to the investigators. They did a great job of assembling electronic data for the sequence of events. Smollett is toast.

When I first heard the report I thought Smollett was from Hamilton). While I have never seen Empire, my first inclination was to believe Mr. Smollett, because most people don't arrange to be attacked in the middle of the night. The MAGA hats seemed a suspicious detail, but without knowing anything else, my first impulse was to believe him.

What has Smollett done? He used a staged hate crime as a commodity to advance his career. He has diminished the impact of future hate crime reports. Those with a predisposition to disregard such events will now say 'just another Jussie Smollett'. He has given shade to racists and homophobes.

If Smollett doesn't think he's being paid enough now, wait until his next contract negotiation, which may come next week. When informed that Elvis Presley died, one Hollywood agent said "Good career move." Smollett will find himself in a similar situation.

[_Kevin Graham]

Maybe I'm not understanding the complaint, so I can admit if I misread it. The FEC says 'she' paid a PAC (she's against those) which paid a company, which paid her boyfriend. I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds illegal to me.



Maybe Trump has me on edge about people draining the swamp, and then get swampy, though there's no true comparison between him and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

- Doc

I'm not sure exactly what the crime is here. Assuming that image is legit what does it actually prove? That she hired her boyfriend as a marketing consultant for two months, a year before she got elected?

According to LinkedIn, Riley Roberts is head of marketing at HomeBinder.com, which helps people manage the maintenance on their homes. He also works as a consultant to help tech startups grow revenue using marketing and development. It looks like he hails from Boston, Massachusetts, with a dual degree from Boston University.

So temporarily hiring her spouse to do a job he has experience in makes her "swampy"?

The highest-paid family employee is Kristin Barton, the daughter of Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas). She earned $59,714 for her work as campaign treasurer for her father. In the 2012 election cycle, which covered two years, she made nearly $132,000—about 9 percent of her father's total campaign funds. In previous years, Barton had also hired his wife and purchased his mom's vehicle for campaign use.

Other lawmakers have appointed their children, spouses and siblings to campaign jobs. One lawmaker, Representative Steve King (R-Iowa), has his son and daughter-in-law on the payroll, making more than $73,000 with their combined salaries.

This practice is legal as long as the relatives are paid for campaign services, and there was no evidence of corrupt dealings from the kin.

A spokesman for Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said it even makes sense to put family members on campaigns. "Indeed, there are no more trustworthy officials,” Ken Grubbs told The Hill. - https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-also ... ars-699548

If you go to this original hit piece by Thompson and scroll down to view all comments, Saikat Chakrabarti responds to every allegation in detail.

https://medium.com/@ltthompso/the-congr ... 3296ec251e