January 29, 2019 Jussie Smollett - Wikipedia On Smollett was attacked in Chicago in what was being investigated as a hate crime.[25][26] Smollett said to police that he was attacked after leaving a fast-food restaurant by two men in ski masks, who made racial and homophobic slurs.[25] According to a statement released by the Chicago Police Department, the two suspects then "poured an unknown liquid" on Smollett and put a noose around his neck.[27] Smollett said that he fought off the attackers; he then admitted himself to Northwestern Memorial Hospital from which he was released "in good condition" later that morning.[25][28] After TMZ claimed that Smollett had told police that the attackers were white and had referenced Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan,[29][30] claims that were repeated on social media, police representatives initially dismissed both claims,[30][31] before subsequently confirming that Smollett had described that the attackers had shouted "MAGA country" during the assault.[26] While TMZ wrote that the liquid poured on Smollett was bleach, it was mainly described in news reports as "an unknown chemical substance",[30] though CBS News reported that police officers described smelling bleach on his clothes.[32] In the day following the attack, figures from the television industry and campaigners condemned the attack on social media.[26]
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- Alternet Far-right extremists are claiming Jussie Smollett attack is a left-wing hoax campaign in 2018, many people on the far right were quick to assume it was all a left-winghoax. pro-Trump Reddit page The Donald is full of Trump supporters who insist that Smollett is lying posted that Smollett “got mugged and is trying to turn himself into a race martyr.” And another described the attack as “another phony hate crime.” Far-right columnist Michelle Malkin, in a January 30 piece for Creators Syndicate, asserted that she was “skeptical” because descriptions of the attack on Smollett are full of “oddities and discrepancies.” And she believes that media accounts of the attack have all the signs of “manufactured ‘news’” and “smears first, facts later.” How many racist homophobic menaces wander around the upscale Streeterville neighborhood of liberal Chicago at 2 a.m. carrying rope and bleach, yelling about ‘MAGA country Andrew Aleksi-Lankinen wrote, “The claim that two Trump supporters were just waiting with rope and bleach at 2 a.m. for some celebrity to attack makes absolutely no sense whatsoever…. This could all just be a P.R. stunt by Smollett.”
- Russia Today RT Jussie Smollett – actor, singer, director and photographer 8 Jun, 2018 Jussie Smollett – actor, singer, director and photographer Actor-musician-producer Jussie Smollett is all candor as he discusses Lee Daniels’ unique genius, the issues inherent in coming out publicly, and why he doesn’t hesitate to call Fox News racist
- Washington Post The Jussie Smollett attack highlights the hate black gay Americans face TheTrump administration haAmerican s opposed gay rights, tried to ban ...
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- American Mirror ‘Empire’ actor who claims ‘MAGA’ attack denounced Trump ‘and his white hooded cohorts’ just 10 days ago JANUARY 30, 2019 BY KYLE OLSON The story of the alleged racist, homophobic attack on “Empire” star Jussie Smollett is premised on the fact that a racist homophobe watches “Empire.”The site also claims the assailants said, “This is MAGA country.” Just 10 days ago, Smollett let the world know what he thinks of Trump and his supporters, which may cast doubt on his claims he was targeted by them. Smollett wrote, “45 and all his white hooded cohorts are a national disgrace. And if you support them…so are you. Clowns.” we must accept the premise that a racist homophobe watches “Empire,” would be out on a freezing Chicago street at 2am with rope and bleach, would recognize the actor, and then be so motivated to actually act on the hatred. And attack an actor, by the way, who has a documented hatred for Trump supporters. You decide if his story is plausible.
- Gateway Pundit Hollywood Actor Who Alleged Trump Supporters Beat his Ass, Bleached him and Put a Noose on his Neck is RABID Trump Hater Hmm… After Reviewing Hundreds of Hours of Surveillance Footage, Chicago Police Still Have Not Found Video of Attack on Jussie Smollett
- Michelle Malkin manure-spreaders of media sensationalism
- TMZ Filthy Comfortable @GOPcomedy Two white guys in masks and MAGA hats are walking around downtown Chicago in below freezing weather carrying rope and a bottle of bleach? Sounds legit to me.
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'Empire' star Jussie Smollett hospitalized following apparent ... the letter sent to Jussie last week containing racist and homophobic slurs.
ThatGrapeJuice.Net first posted this letter which was sent to Fox Studios in Chicago with cut out letters spelling, "You will die black f**." Our sources say the letter was sent 8 days ago.
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alleged hate crime against black, gay Empire actor Jussie Smollett by Trumpsupporters, that he said happened at 2 AM Tuesday morning.
The manure-spreaders of media sensationalism by Michelle Malkin Here we go again. If you think the manure-spreaders of sensationalism who masquerade as ethical practitioners of journalism learned anything from last week’s MAGA-bashing Covington Catholic High School hoax, I have three words for you: oddities and discrepancies abound:
TMZ quoted one of the “MAGA country” attackers who allegedly hurled epithets at Smollett: “Aren’t you that f***ot ‘Empire’ n*****?”
Question: How many racist, homophobic menaces wander around the upscale Streeterville neighborhood of liberal Chicago at 2 a.m. carrying rope and bleach, yelling about “MAGA country?”
Question: How many racist, homophobic menaces have ever heard of “Empire,” could recognize Jussie Smollett, or know or care anything about his sexuality?
Despite TMZ’s claim that Smollett had the “hell beat outta him” and attackers “broke his ribs” plus subjected him to a chemical attack, an ambulance was not called and he instead “self-transported” to the hospital. CWB Chicago, a local public safety watchdog site, reported on police dispatch records documenting that Smollett’s friend “Frank” refused EMS services for Smollett; no mention of bleach was made; “no or minor injury” was observed; and “officers never sent a ‘flash; message with offender descriptions to field units.”
Classic manufactured “news:” Report on an uncorroborated hate crime. Plant unverified details. Repeatedly blame white male Trump supporters. Stoke Hollywood outrage. Enlist the Godfather of Hate Crime Hoaxes to call on the president to denounce phantom attackers. Reap clicks and publicity. Indict all skeptics as racists and haters. Repeat.
Smears first. Facts later. How much deader can American journalism get?
Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime - CNN - CNN.com
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7 hours ago - "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.
Jussie Smollett - IMDb
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Jussie Smollett was born on June 21, 1982 in Santa Rosa, California, USA as Jussie Langston MikhaSmollett. He is an actor, known for Empire (2015), The Mighty Ducks (1992) and Alien: Covenant (2017). June 21, 1982 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
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Sam Morningstar, Author of Combat Veterans' Forum
Answered Jan 29, 2019 · Author has 2.3k answers and 9.5m answer views
What is “the media” nowadays?
Various articles are written and published in very short order, often with individuals or friends breaking the story themselves in social media platforms. These early rush-to-print articles then get circulated in self-curated echo chambers with their associated socio-political bents.
There is no establishment media that vets such stories anymore. Or, they are actually behind the curve in a lot of ways. They’ll often rely on alternative outlets or “independent journalists” that will do a bit of digging, and then when enough information is brought to light or amassed and can’t be ignored, the major outlets do a little bit of modifying of the original stories.
This is the modern cycle.
So, in this case, we might highlight what is being claimed in this attack and also mention recent claims of harassment, and look at the larger context.
In this latest attack account, the following elements are being described by TMZ:
Summary -
Attacked at around 2AM downtown Chicago, by two white men, wearing ski masks. They not only recognized him as an African American, but as the homosexual that is on the show Empire. They brought a rope along for their attack and put this around his neck, and poured bleach on him. And as they ran off, they yelled “This is MAGA country.”
Well, this story then gets picked up by further smaller media outlets or blogs, and various details get added to it. Some stories describe the assailants as wearing masks and MAGA hats.
Various stories get published on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, and outrage over this racist, homophobic attack ensues. “This is Trump’s America,” after all. The few posts that dare to offer a skeptical view of the story are attacked as being motivated by racism, bigotry or at the very least ignorance. Don’t you know about American history? Emmett Till ring any bells, you racist?
However, the Chicago police issued this statement, highlighting that some of these elements being described in media stories were not reported to them directly.
Okay, that’s the background with the attack story. So, now we have to bring up the recent hate mail that this fellow apparently received.
This supposedly sent out just a few days ago:
So, here we have racist and homophobic bigots harassing Mr. Smollett, sending this to his work address (Fox Studio, Chicago).
You’ll notice they took the time to cut out letters like we might see in ransom letters, in Hollywood films. That’s to prevent the source of writing to be traced back to the culprits - you know the handwriting experts or picking up details about the font or print of a typewriter or printer. Yet, they also though it would be a good idea to use red marker and sloppily write the address, and provide a drawing that a kid would do.
Yeah, a lot of planning and thought went into this!
Okay, so what are the chances that Mr. Smollett gets such a hate letter, and just randomly gets attack on the street a few days later?
Or, was it all planned? Was it part of a coordinated attack?
These White racists were likely targeting him, right?
In any event, they would have had to do a stakeout, in the dead center of downtown Chicago waiting for him to return from his recent trip.
They were laying in wait for him with their ski masks and perhaps MAGA hats. They’d obviously need ski masks because it was only about -12 degrees at that time of night, with decent winds at 12 mph. It was cold! Also, two White dudes working together shows planning, and the fact that it was early Tuesday night shows they were either taking off work or were unemployed. And of course, these two White racists had their rope and their bleach, ready to attack Mr. Smollett. No further weapons were used? Why not? Was it just to send a message? Then why send the note with the cut-out letters threatening to kill? Was they just a psychological attack?
Real question: How many avowed violent White racists watch Empire anyway?
The point is, there is something very fishy about this story. And our modern media landscape and social media echo chamber is not really into critical thinking and corroboration of facts. And social media outright is stoked by whatever narrative people like to latch onto. Whether it’s “racism is everywhere” or “anti-SJW” narratives. Various sides think their perceived political opponents are insane.
That’s is the modern social media landscape.
By the way, there is only one Subway open 24hrs near Mr. Smollett’s condo, and there aren’t then many ways to get to it. And there are some pretty high-end buildings and businesses along this path, so there will likely be a lot of cameras capturing the action on the street.
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Answered Jan 29, 2019 · Author has 295 answers and 6.6k answer views
Yes, he wasn’t really injured and he is a “social activist” which means he isn’t all that ethical. I will not believe it until there is either a person arrested with real evidence or video of the attack. Video which seems mysteriously absent in a part of the city that is heavily ccTV’ed.
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I don’t know. It’s possible it’s real. You wouldn’t think that it could happen in Chicago though so it’s definitely weird. If it’s true, that’s horrible.
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I don’t think it happened. It’s too corny. A threatening letter made of letters cut out of the newspaper, an “attack” that has no evidence even though it supposedly happene...
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CPD raided their home with a search warrant after taking them in for questioning
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Both men reportedly left for Nigeria on the day of the attack, according to Charlie De Mar of CBS Chicago.
asked family why they think police picked the two brothers up for questioning and they replied by saying the men left for #Nigeria the day of the attack
asked family why they think police picked the two brothers up for questioning and they replied by saying the men left for #Nigeria the day of the attack
found numerous items including bleach and an Empire script.
Fox has now denied that Smollet was being written out of the show and Smollet has also repeatedly denied staging the attack.
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Everyone is using their identity politics to frame this story for their own purposes, instead of pointing out the real rotten tooth in this national grimace.
Lying. Bold, bald-faced, bang-your-fists-and-swear-it’s-real lying.
The biggest victim here isn’t race, sexual preference or a political party.
The biggest victim is truth.
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Opinion-The Guardian-11 hours ago media reaction to the actor’s alleged fabrication shows how ‘victimhood culture’ is used as a means to attack minorities But, despite the rarity of victim culture in the wild, when it emerged that American actor Jussie Smollett may have fabricated a racist and homophobic attack on himself in Chicago, it was immediately obvious to many why they thought he did it. It wasn’t because he was a creep or a sociopath or an attention seeker: it was because of victimhood culture.
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Victimhood culture is one of those phenomena, like “political correctness gone mad”, that isn’t a real thing, but has nevertheless been adopted by the right and the left, and made mainstream with little questioning as to why. It wasn’t just Fox News and Trump supporters who relished the opportunity to point out that Smollett’s actions were a manifestation of our fetish for the victim. African-American academic John McWhorter writes in the Atlantic that the Smollett story reveals “something else modern America is about: victimhood chic. Future historians and anthropologists will find this aspect of early-21st-century America peculiar, intriguing, and sad.” In the National Review, Andy Ngo goes further to claim that “because of the mainstreaming of academia’s victimhood culture, we are now in a place where we place more value on being a victim than on being heroic, charitable, or even kind”. CNN hosted a talk show entitled “Jussie Smollett and the victim culture”. insistence on the centrality of “victimhood culture” is symptomatic of a society that is intolerant of victims – waiting to pounce, to roll eyes, scoff, and ideally (but alas rarely), find a gotcha moment to prove that victim narratives are suspect
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In-Depth-Vanity Fair-1 hour ago d hired them to help him lose weight ahead of a music-video shoot. ABC News obtained a copy of the check that shows that memo line, as well as text messages between Smollett and one of the brothers regarding nutrition and exercise that seem to support that narrative.
Still, during an interview Monday with Good Morning America, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson maintained that during their police interrogation, the brothers indicated that the check was given to them explicitly for the attack—and that police have additional evidence supporting this theory that has not been made public yet.
When G.M.A.’s Robin Roberts asked Johnson why the Osundairo brothers changed their story—confessing to their alleged crime just one hour before police would have had to let them go—Johnson replied, “You know, we worked very closely with their lawyer. And their lawyer went in there and talked to them and whatever she said to them apparently got through to them to just tell the truth about what happened. And that’s what they decided to do.”
Sources told TMZ that the actor refused to come out of his trailer for most of the day, and that one of the reasons Smollett was removed from the series was because Howard and others among the cast believed that he was lying about the attack.
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Check Out Leaked Text Between Obama Aide & Prosecutor Who Dropped All Charges Against Jussie Smollett
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Below is a leaked text message from Obama aide Tina Tchen and prosecutor Kim Foxx (who is also very close to Democrat presidential candidate, Kamala Harris) in which Tchen is directly acting as an advocate on behalf of Smollett.
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Smollett is said to be close with both Barack and Michelle Obama (and Valerie Jarrett) and was a frequent visitor to the Obama White House:
https://heavy.com/born in Santa Rosa, California, in June 1982 as the third of five kids born to Janet Harris and Joel Smollett. Smollett has three brothers and two sisters. His younger brother, Jake, 29, and sister, Jurnee, 32, are also actors.
Smollett, 36, first came out as gay in March 2015 during an interview on “Ellen.” Later, Smollett said in an interview with Out magazine, “If I had to label myself, I would label myself as a gay man… If I fall in love down the road with a woman, I’m going to love that woman.”
The New York Times published a feature on Smollett and his family in March 2016. The article described the Smollett children as being “raised in the orbit of the Black Panthers.” It adds that the family has recently “lent their voices” to the Black Lives Matter movement.
his mother is African-American and is originally from New Orleans. She met his father in the Bay Area, where Joel Smollett Sr. lived. Smollett said, “My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond. To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”
Jussie Smollett learned how to lie from his communist mother
http://va.topbuzz.com/s/mvxpUd
Jussie doesn't have to admit he staged a hate crime targeting Trump-supporters. He can proclaim his innocence against all reality because in the Aesopian world of Marxist activism that he has inhabited since the cradle, telling the truth is nothing more than bourgeois sentimentalism. It's not at all different from lying.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/jussie_smollett_learned_how_to_lie_from_his_communist_mother.html#ixzz5jUFmPQML
Jussie, as his mother's son, has comrades in high places, and he is a member of the four most protected classes in the country — he's black, gay, left-wing, and a Trump-hater. In other words, as an oppressed and marginalized victim of an unjust, racist system, he cannot be held accountable.
Mother Janet Harris Smollett taught him well — lies are facts that will happen sometime, somewhere, because America is a racist, oppressive country.
Janet has quite a history of intimate involvement with communists, black supremacists, and Black Panthers, so it is no surprise that Jussie was involved in an anti-Trump hoax with his red diaper baby upbringing. Jussie's tweets about President Trump during the campaign and after his 2016 victory evoke the hate-filled rants he must have heard every day from his Black Panther mother.
She was mentored by Julian Bond, a founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center with numerous ties to communist front groups. According to her own son, Janet was tight with the cream-of-the-crop of black radical communists, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis.
"To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We've spent Mother's Day with Angela," said Jussie.
"To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We've spent Mother's Day with Angela," said Jussie.
Davis is a former Black Panther and card-carrying member of the Communist Party. In 1970, she was on the FBI's wanted list for murder and kidnapping.
Along with out-in-the-open Communist Party members in his corner, Smollett had Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, Jesse Jackson, and Michelle Obama ready to save their comrade from the already corrupt justice system in Chicago. Rank-and-file police investigators never had a chance with this nest of vipers.
Senator Kamala Harris just happened to be the co-chair of newly elected Cook County state attorney Kim Foxx's transition team in 2016. Foxx stated that she couldn't have been elected without Harris's help.
Foxx was so compromised by her backroom dealings with Harris, the Smollett family, and Michelle Obama that she had to recuse herself in Jussie's case.
In a New York Times article on the Smollett family, one of Jussie's siblings credits Janet as their only acting coach. Mrs. Smollett's activities in various black radical and communist groups enabled her to "coach" her kids in the art of acting and lying.
From the NYT:
They [the Smollett children] were raised in the orbit of the Black Panthers and , lately, have lent their voices to the Black Lives Matter movement, their trajectory, from child stars to successful adults, is born of their family and its history of activism.
Prosecutor Who Dropped Smollett Case Had Said She Was Recusing Herself Over Potential Conflict. Then She Didn’t topbuzz Law & Crime March 27, 2019 7:51 AMFollow
The decision from Cook County, Illinois prosecutors to drop charges against Jussie Smollett continues to confuse people who followed the case. The latest question surrounds the top prosecutor, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who—based on her own past statements—perhaps shouldn’t have had her office involved in the matter at all.
Back in February, Foxx’s office said that she was recusing herself from the case to avoid a possible conflict of interest
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