Crunch, very impressed with this thread overall. Good job on picking up on the narrative early!
Wrong. It’s about Trump Derangement Syndrome, anti-white racism, and a media that blindly enables it. It’s about a intensely biased media once again so intent on a narrative that it fell down for, what its it, the 6th time this year?
This continues to be the biggest issue to me. The media keeps selling a lie about their opponents.
I saw a headline on a print news source this morning to the effect that Freedom of Press is fundemental to Democracy. What's missing to me in the constant repetition of the importance of the
rights of the press is any acknowledgment of the
responsibility of the press. Where is their objectivity? You don't have to avoid having a side to be objective and fair. Picking how you cover things to sell a story you want to be true is not why we have press freedoms.
If someone is openly acknowledged as being in the tank for a particular political group how are they "press"? What is a "press" that only covers stories in a way that promotes a slant? I can't bring myself to claim they "slant the truth" when I honestly think they do more promotion of lies (e.g., the right is racist and the left is not).
He faces 3 years in jail. He should get the full 3 as he’d have put innocent people in jail to maintain the hoax.
I suspect his intent was that no one would ever get found. Of course, you may not have wanted to pay the Nigerian brothers with a personal check in that case. Sigh.
That said, I'm not sure how I feel about the sentence. It seems too harsh for staging a crime, though I'm still thinking it through. The more significant damage here wasn't Smollet's crime it was the media's decision to promote it because it supports the lie they want to promote as truth. That damaged countless people across the nation, it defamed by implication all Trump supporters, and then it added to the mental health problems of the left when it turned out to be a big ole lie.
But the law on fake crimes is doesn't, to my knowledge, consider the media impact. That means that 3 years is the kind of sentence normal people would face for staging a crime. Maybe, that's okay, maybe too much. Sure wish we could add an aggravating factor for the political and media manipulation. Heck, why can't we, what Smollet did is a hate crime. He flat out admitted in his texts he hates Trump and his supporters. What he did was every bit as much a hate crime as what we convict other people for. If we're going to have hate crimes, then this conduct deserves the additional charge.