He's a bad, bad gangsta rapper, too, you know.tbirdspur2010 said:
The value of little jussie's entire acting catalog is as nothing more than meme fodder at his own expense.
It's delicious beyond words.
Yep. Because he virtue signals correctly, he'll get a pass from the folks who make or break entertainment careers. He'll offer a crying public apology to the likes of an eager Oprah Winfrey. His name recognition will soar.AggieTFA06 said:
I will be honest, I didn't know who Jussie Smollet was until the story came out. Now I definitely know who he is. Smollet is doing a good job with name recognition.
And his comment was right about the speed. This isn't a game to find the right thing to blame. Plenty of so-called conservatives were calling out the Covington kids based on the initial still shots they saw on Twitter. An editor at National Review wrote a histrionic screed comparing it to "mocking Christ on the Cross" and then took it down when facts started coming out. It's a real problem when people in the media are rushing to get their hot takes and definitive statements out before they have any clue what even happened. Technology has drastically changed the media cycles over the last 20 years and it's speeding up for the worse.Agnzona said:
You blamed speed not idealogy. That's just like all the folks that say ratings is driving them. Nope only leftism drives the media. Everything they do is from the selling of that point.
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On Saturday, a 30-year-old woman who lives in a high-rise that overlooks the purported crime scene told CWBChicago that she believes she saw the events that Smollett described to police as a violent hate crime.
The woman said she returned to her apartment early on Jan. 29th after helping a friend move from the Gold Coast to Lincoln Park. "It was cold and everyone bailed on him, so it took forever," she said.
Upon returning home, the woman saw three men standing on the corner where Smollett would later report being attacked.
"All I saw was three guys talking," she said. "They were standing right before the staircase" that leads to Upper East North Water Street.
"I don't think there was any problem because it looked like they knew each other."
And she said, as she looked down on the men through her open bedroom window, she did not hear any screaming or slurs. "I heard trucks (two blocks away) on Michigan Avenue, but I didn't hear anything from them."
If the woman is right, she estimates that the actual timeline for the crime as know to the public is off. "10, 15, maybe 20 minutes off," she said.
So, why'd she have her window open so early on frigid Tuesday morning?
"Because I was smoking pot," she laughed. "That's why I haven't talked to the cops, too."
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Late Monday, CWBChicago received confirmation that the letter case has been before a federal grand jury and multiple subpoenas have been generated over the course of the investigation.
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A law firm partner who asked not to be identified by name spoke with us about the federal problems ahead for whoever mailed the letter: "If they have Smollett on the letter, he'll be facing 'terroristic hoax' charges, a felony. There may be federal obstruction charges as well."
All in all, the federal legal options are numerous: "If they want to bury him, they can."
Meanwhile, the Osundairo brothers are reportedly holed up in a Chicago hotel with police protection.
Federal charges. Not state or city misdemeanor charges that can be forgotten or ignored. Federal charges in real prisons where you do your time without any hope of parole.Quote:
A law firm partner who asked not to be identified by name spoke with us about the federal problems ahead for whoever mailed the letter: "If they have Smollett on the letter, he'll be facing 'terroristic hoax' charges, a felony. There may be federal obstruction charges as well."
All in all, the federal legal options are numerous: "If they want to bury him, they can."
Meanwhile, the Osundairo brothers are reportedly holed up in a Chicago hotel with police protection.
Bag said:
if I am his legal counsel I am begging and pleading with him to write a letter, apologizing and stating that he was on some heavy antidepressants and he had a bad reaction. that is the only way he can salvage this thing is to come clean at this point. But it sounds like he's going to keep doubling down on stupid
Bag said:
I know it's a hard sell trust me but I don't see any other way he can even come close to saving face with anyone at this point.
His crisis management team has to come up with something like this, they have no choice.
Attempted suicide most likely. It will play into the mental illness narrative.Bag said:
At this point the dude literally has to be suicidal. I would not be surprised to wake up in the morning and that he offed himself
C@LAg said:no the connoisseur of dining on rugs and other floor coverings.andyv94 said:
Who? Juan Williams?
johnnyblaze36 said:
I had almost forgotten all about Michael Avenatti and have no idea what he said right from the jump but now he's apologizing. Of all people you'd think he'd have learned his lessons but nah.
I'm probably finding way too much entertainment in all of this but twitter is full of so much gold right now.
