By Jeff Simpson
For some reason, The Jussie Smollett story is a story that the WISGOP can not seem to stop talking about.
From Jimmy Wigderson, to hate talker Vicki Mckenna and the incomprehensible Dan O'Donnell has been obsessed with it.
Now that it is rather obvious that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett paid two Nigerian-born brothers (one of whom was for a time his personal trainer) to help stage a hate crime hoax in Chicago, one must ask why so many in the media and Democratic Party fell for such a questionable story in the first place.
To paraphrase Agent Mulder in another popular FOX show, it was because they wanted to believe.
They wanted to believe that President Trump has fomented such a hateful environment that his supporters would attack a gay, black Trump critic simply for being a gay, black Trump critic. They wanted to believe that, as CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin put it, "this is America in 2019."
Only it isn't. It's the America that the political left and its media allies have invented. Sadly, hate crimes do occur, but they are dramatically outnumbered by the truly staggering number of hate crime hoaxes that generate similarly uncritical and sympathetic coverage.
They are acting like staging attacks for political point is a new thing. That it is some deep conspiracy that "the left" has concocted to figure out a way to make The Donald look bad.
Yes the Donald can make himself look bad all on his own, he needs no help for that.
However I want to perform a public service and remind our friends on the right, that making up stories to score political points is something the WISGOP and the right has been doing for years now. Let's jog their memory.
Not to be outdone by the idiocy, irrelevant ex Senator Neil Kedzie's son got beat up at bartime in Whitewater for being an ass. Instead of owning up that he raised a son who could not handle his liquor, Kedzie blamed it on Democrats and said that his son was beat up because he had a Romney/Ryan sign in his yard. Kedzie even had his taxpayer funded staffers calling the Romney campaign trying to get national exposure. We knew it was fake immediately, because supporting Paul Ryan is punishment enough, no need to throw salt in the wound and hit him also.
Then, that captain of telling fake stories, Scott Walker, even wrote a fake book about all of the times he was harassed on the campaign trail, but stood up to the bullies like the hero he likes to think he is. The problem of course was the time he told his ghostwriter about that made the book, were all #fakenews. Walker claimed many things from, protesters surrounding his car at Devils lake and shaking it to getting spit on at his local grocery store.
The one commonality of all of Scott Walker's "protest" stories is that they are never true.
Speaking of the Capitol protests, Matt Kittle from Maciver recently tweeted about the riots at the Capitol.
During the #Act10 riots, the @NewsMacIver gave the world a clear picture of what was really happening in Madison - like the time liberals told the disabled they would die if Act 10 passed. #WIright https://t.co/C2xEgRUnWA— MacIver News Service (@NewsMacIver) February 15, 2019
As someone who not only was at the Capitol protesting almost daily, I took my 7 and 4 year old children at the time whenever I could. There was nothing resembling a riot. Three Pinocchios to Matt on that tweet.
We see that our friends in the WISGOP are the Founding Fathers of fake news and are actual Republicans, yet not a peep from the hate talk/propaganda bloggers trolling through the internet.
I would say that it seems like many in the WISGOP are auditioning to be guest stars on "Empire" but not sure that Robin Vos and Jim Steineke allow anyone of our African American brothers and sisters to watch!
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