Jussie Smollett Meltdown

Not everyone is surprised by this slow trainwreck coming:

Police sources: New evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated attack

Unless I've missed an update we are still in the "Sources Say" phase, but it's hard to see how Smollett explains this away.

Now, a Frequently Unasked Question: Smollett had received a threatening letter a week earlier, which the FBI was investigating. Also a hoax? {Rick Moran has more at PJ Media.]

And when did the alleged attackers become white? Neither the initial NY Times nor Ebony accounts mention that, nor is it brought up in Smollett's initial statement. IIRC, in some statement Smollett said he didn't know their race since they were bundled up against the cold.

MORE: TMZ said the attackers were white in their initial coverage and recently claimed they had that confirmed twice.

 

 

Comments

[Pinandpuller]

US Marshals III:

Look in every dog house, cat house, hen house, crack house and bath house.

[Pinandpuller]

I'm sorry to break it to you daddy but you're about 169 years too late:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Brewery

[Narciso79]

The CPds street officers were leaking to Weigel elgas and ultimately Ziegler while ths duffus top brass were reading off smollets talking points

[daddy]

Dave's pic at 08:55 reminds me that the way Captain Pike Musky is treated by the audience in this clip is how the DC Establishment treats RBG.

[MissMarple2]

Julie Kelly
‏ @julie_kelly2

Chaffetz just said McCabe disclosed classified info tonight when he publicly discussed an intelligence briefing with Trump.

==============================

Jason Chaffetz on Fox. Good. Arrest McCabe right now.

[Pinandpuller]

Gentlejim

Where do you fall on cop lore:

NYPD used the cheapest material possible to make badges which was roofing copper thus 'Coppers'

Constable on Patrol

???

[Account Deleted]

Yeah, Ignatz.
When will Progressives have to go to 'sensitivity training' to learn how to stop slandering Trump supporters?
Where's the 'sensitivity training' for THAT?

[MissMarple2]

Heding to bed.

Good night, everyone!

[Another Bob]

Don Jr.:

Kathy Griffin: No one can ruin a career faster than I can.

Jussie Smollet: Hold my bleach!!!

[Captain Hate]

People who don't even exist who say "MAGA country, faggot" are still a teachable moment for the deplorable half of the country.

63 million citizens voted for DJT and don't take being regularly slandered by a bunch of mental midgets well. Tick tock.

[Narciso79]

The snippet I linked is from a scene where Hopkins has been communicating with Russo, who was tasked to retrieve her one time boyfriend estevez, who mick Jagger nabbed from the past. But it turns out hes a computer generated image while hes been in a coma, got all that?

[Pinandpuller]

The first gay brothel in America was established in NYC in 1894. I have no information on the first 24 Hour Subway.

[Gentlejim]

Pin,
I don’t know what to believe about the origin of copper or cop. Hell, I’m still confused about Hoosier. :)

Has anyone heard from Venezuela lately? That story really disappeared. How big of a pillow did that take?

[Gentlejim]

I’ll venture a guess and say that “this is MAGA country, faggot” has never been uttered in Chitcargo’s boy’s town neighborhood.

[Narciso79]

The byline is by the head of CNN's Russian team who was a recipient of Baker and other leaks in 2004:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pe.com/2016/04/06/apple-fbi-lawyer-won8217t-say-if-data-from-unlocked-iphone-is-useful/amp/

[Narciso79]

This site has been pretty good:

https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/02/16/what-we-know-about-the-u-s-based-oil-sector-appointments/

[Narciso79]

A real peoples revolution will not be televised even if it is live, riffing off gil Scott herin

[boatbuilder]

I don't know if this answers your question, Pin. But it seems to be related. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYbogp1Ha0

[jimmyk]

I see ext's point about Trump's tweets, but: I'm sure Barr was well aware of Trump's tweet habit, and he took the job. If he'd had a big problem with it he would have said something before taking the job.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

How the heck does Mark Steyn pay his lawyers after eight years of this crap?
Interesting to note that the vindictive billionaire behind Glenn Beck's BlazeTV has taken the maggot Mann's side.
Glenn Beck and his whole operation are weird as hell.

[Narciso79]

A dog returns...well you get the idea,

[clarice]

It's a wonderful world. I'm watching alive shot of my grand daughter playing volleyball in Hawaii. Her parents hadto duck out on an errand for a bit and my husband was keeping them abreast of the score by iphone.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Here's Steyn's rundown of his various spats with Krazy Katz.

[Narciso79]

Is it on any channel, or just a video feed?

[daddy]

Pin,

Bummer that I missed last call by a Century and a Half at the Old Brewery, but via your link I learned that the name Manhattan comes from Lenape lingo Manna-hata (island of many hills).

[clarice]

It's a video feed, narciso .

[Dave (in MA)]

Once again I'm tempted to say I'd like to subscribe to Iggy's newsletter... But then it occurs to me that this place is basically just that, anyway.

[jimmyk]

Here's a very good summary of recent fake hate crimes, all of which have gone down the MSM memory hole:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1097020092791934976

[anonamom]

Ex,
I suspect (and hope!) Barr is way bigger than you are giving him credit for---he's not in this for ego gratification, and will have no problem just getting his job done, head down. Tweets? What tweets?
It's not like he doesn't already know well what DJT thinks of the SC.

At least that is the visual I got from him---and Mrs. Barr, even more so--from the footage of his hearing.

[clarice]

I saw a link with 342 fake hate crimes in the US. There's no excuse for the media to have fallen for Smollett's bizarre story as they did.

[Dave (in MA)]

Fallen for? They did an effing Louganis.

[Narciso79]

Turns out they were hacking Bollywood and Hollywood stars as well,
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/17/qatar-a-hospitable-base-for-the-muslim-130932598/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Once again I'm tempted to say I'd like to subscribe to Iggy's newsletter...--

May I suggest an upgrade to my premium service, Dave, wherein I parrot [heh] some useless financial chatter about the Dow going to 50,000 and only charge $5,000 per year.
With the Platinum $10,000 plan I'll explalin why the Dow is going to 500. :)
For $500,000 donated to my non profit I'll reveal the Hillary Clinton secret to millions in the cattle futures trade.

[Dave (in MA)]

Heh™

[clarice]

I love IGGY!

Nytol.

[anonamom]

There's no excuse; just shows how stupid they are.
That account totally lacked credibility; it was below zero at 2am that morning. NOBODY would be out trolling for black gay guys to torment. Too frickin' cold to be outdoors, period.

Only these clueless journalists would buy a story so in conflict with reality and common sense.

[Narciso79]

I suspected as much about Omar's family background as Michael Waller, a real Russian area expert was able to glean

[Narciso79]

At this point, they aren't stupid they are complicit, even Forrest gump would know something was up. I showed a class that film one day and I spelled out all the references I could reasonably ascertain.

[Pinandpuller]

https://www.amazon.com/Barren-Metal-History-Capitalism-Conflict/dp/0929891147.

[Narciso79]

Only one:

https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-one-wrong-premise-at-the-center-of-american-politics-today/?fbclid=IwAR1U8anONgl7W5MGC--JIHr69aZpBuzmcbC1w8U2eg1Jdk-Lkvl5M8Sa0Es

[jimmyk]

Fallen for? They did an effing Louganis.

That gives them too much credit. There weren't duped. They went after it like Michelle Obama goes after tamale.

[daddy]

A good comment at JimmyK's 11:20:

Barbara Kay
‏

@BarbaraRKay
8h8 hours ago
More
Replying to @MrAndyNgo
What could be more reassuring about the *lack* of racism than this roster of racist hoaxes? Disgraceful people will do this (and there have been several hoaxes in Canada).

True. If there was 1/1000th of actual racism that these MSM types claim exist they wouldn't have to be constantly made up.

[Pinandpuller]

E Michael Jones says that America has sanctions on 1/3 of all nations on Earth. It's his contention that this policy will destroy the Dollar as the world's reserve currency. What say ye economists?

[Pinandpuller]

E Michael Jones was fired from a Catholic university for being opposed to abortion. I wish I was kidding.

[Dave (in MA)]

Posted by: jimmyk | February 18, 2019 at 12:20 AM. I think we're saying the same thing.

[Narciso79]

That's sadly not surprising. About being fired, but then again he chooses poorly when making an argument we will cease to be a reserve currency when the nations of the world decide are moneys no good.

[Narciso79]

His major preoccupation has been on cultural issues and there he has half of the biscuit as well. Just as the top men pay lipservice to gop principles and only really roar when some one like trump asserts themselves so it is with the Church it seems to believe in little and demands less, this is how vipers can settle into its bosom for dozens of years. So is it with our fellow brothers of the Book. If they really focused on genesis through malachi and took it to heart the world would be a better place.

[jim nj]

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/south-bronx-celebrates-fort-apache-centennial-article-1.1819029

A 2014 article on the same.

In the 70's and 80's it did have a bad reputation. But as the community fell apart and buildings were abandoned the population decreased and so did the crime.

I think I told the story about the mushroom that drops spores and none grow within the circle. Each generation does the same thing so that the circle grows ever outward.

The Bronx was like that. Whole blocks of abandoned buildings were torn down. Builders started building in the center of the blight and people were confident about moving back into smaller buildings in what was now a new "safe" zone.

[Narciso79]

Our sermon today touched on Luke 14's last section, but she discussed the expedition of John Franklin, which I believe was the subject of a Dan Simmons novel and an a &e miniseries about a trip to find the Northwest passage. The problem is the cargo was entirely wrong for such an arduous trek fine line uniforms a full silver service fine China etc when they came upon hard times they were unprepared to survive and they did not

[jim nj]

http://www.hughhewitt.com/our-sad-world-revealed/

John Schroeder

Last paragraph:"So as this week concludes and Sunday is upon us, we have to ask ourselves what has really been revealed of late – the state of the world or the state of the church?"

[jim nj]

Narciso,

John Schroeder above agrees with you. Do what you have to do to get a church member but don't offend so they leave.

Somehow the principles get lost in that marketing format.

[Narciso79]

Yes that's where I was leading and the answer seems equally dubious. It's a saving grace that we are not as bad off as Europe but that's like saying we only have ths flu as compared to plague, that doesn't reassure.

[Narciso79]

When there was such a turning point five hundred years ago nearly on the dot, there was another way. Yet is the Protestant body nearly as rigorous It doesn't look like it.

[Dave (in MA)]

Whiskey Tango Foxtwat,
https://twitter.com/Known__Unknowns/status/1097378682790912000

[jim nj]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/02/17/the-replication-crisis-may-also-be-a-theory-crisis/

"A replication crisis has called into question results from behavioral (and other) sciences. Complaints have focused on poor statistical methods, the burying of negative results, and other “questionable research practices” that undermine the quality of individual studies.

But methods are only part of the problem, as Michael Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich argue in a paper in Nature Human Behaviour this week. It’s not just that individual puzzle pieces are low in quality; it’s also that there’s not enough effort to fit those pieces into a coherent picture. “Without an overarching theoretical framework,” write Muthukrishna and Henrich, “empirical programs spawn and grow from personal intuitions and culturally biased folk theories.”

[Narciso79]

Check her for seed pods. What is the relevance of a person's work Visa to an invitation to a hive of scum and villainy on turtle bay.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(TV_series) Narciso, did you see this?

[Narciso79]

I saw parts of it. That's why it rang a bell.

[Narciso79]

What kind of climbing gear is available at the Ledge?

[jim nj]

Hiring a legal alien w/o a work permit is so much worse than having a Chinese spy drive you around for more than a decade.

[Narciso79]

I thought so, yes I see I guess they get malpass on Wolfowitz grounds so another scalp was found. I remember Neil Rogers the late talk show in my Berg was venomous against fair weather, well I dont have to draw a picture why.

[Dave (in MA)]

Oh my, they're doing a season 2, unrelated to season 1. It's about a Japanese internment camp, guess who's in it?

[Narciso79]

Ah yes the fellow who wont acknowledge fdrs involvement in his families trevails.

[Narciso79]

Of course calling your ship Hades and the Terror is just tempting fate, 'you want to see scary,' cue twilight zone music.

[Dave (in MA)]

The bad guys'll probably be corporate CEOs.

[Narciso79]

It still doesn't make any sense, this wingers Overlord did suggest horrors could be found in a German facility during ww 2. In very gruesome ways.

[Narciso79]

They left out his uncle was one of the innocent Gitmo detainees from lubya.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1088431/brighton-stabbing-elm-grove-crash-Abdul-Deghayes

[jim nj]

Pin,

A little late to an argument Narciso seems to have already demolished. I question that guy, whom I've never heard of and his contention that the US has sanctions against 1/3 of the world's counties.

Sanctions are a very broad term.

That we won't sell dual-use technology to some countries?

That we won't sell military arms to some countries?

That we refuse to issue visas to some countries that might, for instance, refuse to take back illegal aliens?

That we impose trade or financial restrictions on Russia, China, Venezuela, NK and others?

Anyway, countries choose what reserve currencies to hold in a rational and strategic way. It has to be highly liquid, stable, hold value without large fluctuations and be easily converted into other currencies.

That's the US Dollar. Some countries will hold a basket of currencies, but the US Dollar predominates.

Other reserve currencies might include Japanese Yen, Pounds Sterling, Euros, etc.

The Euro community once hoped it's currency would be on par with the US Dollar, but hasn't lived up to their hype. It's a small reserve currency.

[Pinandpuller]

Well mr narciso it's all figure 8's, carabiners and nylon ropes because the only thing we are likely to see arrested is falls.

[Pinandpuller]

Make Africans Get Attorneys

[hoyden]

MT, I am honored you would invite me for an exclusive BFI field trip on Memorial Day. Our plans are open and the biggest challenge I see is coordinating travel with our departure from SEA early Tuesday morning.

[Pinandpuller]

I'm with whoever said Jussie needs a refund. I've seen tougher punches thrown n the Taiwanese Parliament:

Posted by: daddy | February 17, 2019 at 08:41 PM

Uncle Hotep. He said some more funny things today.

"I think Jussie did a lot for race relations. Everybody wants to see him locked up."

If you pay me $3,500 I'm gonna work that ass."

I guess he also goes by Handy Mahem. Here's a short video, he has a great laugh:

Jussie Smollett angered and devastated that no one is believing his lies #JussieSmollettHoax

https://youtu.be/VMFq7-MYQzg

[Pinandpuller]

I’ll venture a guess and say that “this is MAGA country, faggot” has never been uttered in Chitcargo’s boy’s town neighborhood.

Posted by: Gentlejim | February 17, 2019 at 10:19 PM

Obama said it with a first rate Nigerian accent.

[Pinandpuller]

Posted by: boatbuilder | February 17, 2019 at 10:31 PM

That Classic Clapper Capper was genuine LOL.

Non Grey Johnny.

[jim nj]

Something has been on the tip of my tongue for two weeks. I just figured it out.

"Gollum was a hobbit named Sméagol." Are you sure it wasn't Smollett?

[Pinandpuller]

Jones did say something interesting. Protestantism has dissipated like perfume out of a bottle. Something like that.

And one last word on Jenny: she would make an absolutely typical Florida high school teacher.

[jim nj]

PIN,

It seems like all the sexual abuse of late has been occurring in public schools.

[henry]

Jim_nj, modern teaching is all about feels.

[daddy]

Michael Goodwin at the New York Post does a nice dissection of the Amazon mess in Manhattan: Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Amazon

In his column he also mentions the Strand Book Store to help illustrate the Amazon mess:

...Consider the case of the famous Strand Book Store in Manhattan, a survivor despite how Amazon has cannibalized book sales. City officials wanted to landmark its store, a costly proposition for the owners, about the time Amazon got its ­incentive offers.
Strand owner Nancy Bass Wyden connected the dots lining up against her and in favor of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos.

“The richest man in America, who’s a direct competitor, has just been handed $3 billion in subsidies,” Wyden complained. “I’m not asking for money or a tax rebate. Just leave me alone.”

Being left alone is no longer an option in New York and other blue states. The only question is whether the government will become your partner — or shut you down unless you bend to its will.

Either way, capitalism is dead.

PS,

Jim nj, The Kimberley Asst Manager told me today via phone I'll almost certainly get a suite with 2 rooms, each with a bed, so I'll be Walter Matthieu and you can be Jack Lemon---vice versa:)

[daddy]

But meanwhile on Page 6...

Jussie Smollett case to reportedly go before a grand jury

Smollett originally made it clear to cops that he’d sign complaints against his assailants — but once the Osundairos were arrested, he said he knew them and felt bad for them, and refused to press charges, sources tell TMZ.

Jussie is one hell of a humanitarian:)

[Pinandpuller]

Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

[Pinandpuller]

The pastor of a poor Baptist church passed away and the congregation went into town to take up a collection for the funeral.
"Would you give $5 to bury the Baptist preacher?"
"Here's $10," said the atheist, "bury two of them."

[Pinandpuller]

Q: How can you identify a Unitarian-Universalist extremist group?

A: If they burn a question mark on your lawn.

[anonamom]

What kind of climbing gear is available at the Ledge?

Reminds to pass on that Jimmy Chin's Free Solo coverage of Alec Honnold's amazing ascent of El Cap is at Amazon Prime. Seeing it on a true IMAX screen just wasn't happening--but if I ever have the chance to do so, I will. Spectacular documentation of an incredible feat of will, focus and preparation.

[James D.]

There's no excuse for the media to have fallen for Smollett's bizarre story as they did.

"fallen for it" gives them WAY too much credit as being decent human beings who are just a little to credulous.

They didn't CARE that it was obviously not true from word one; they saw an opportunity to bash the President and his racist, deplorable, homophobic, subhuman trash supporters, and they eagerly took it.

And that's why we haven't, and won't see anything remotely like an apology, because garbage people like us don't merit one.

[James D.]

The problem is the cargo was entirely wrong for such an arduous trek fine line uniforms a full silver service fine China etc when they came upon hard times they were unprepared to survive and they did not

There's a great survey of the whole 19th century British push for exploration in the Arctic, Africa and Antarctica called "Barrow's Boys". It's a breezy read, but it really does illustrate how totally ill-prepared many of these expeditions were for what they would face (and, not at all coincidentally, the few expeditions that were better thought-out actually accomplished their goals).

[Buckeye]

JamesD

In the 19th century, Britain was basking in the glory of new found wealth generated by their leadership of the industrial revolution.

Hubris is a bad starting point for a serious undertaking that involves dangerous, life threatening activities:)

[henry]

Buckeye, enough about SpaceX. ;)

[Buckeye]

Roger that Henry:)

[Buckeye]

I absolutely hate me some Elon Musk.

Not shy about saying it either.

[James D.]

I particular liked this bit from the conclusion of the book:

Barrow's reign was finally over. It had started with one disaster – an expedition wiped out in Africa – and had wandered through tragedy and triumph to end with another – an expedition wiped out in the Arctic. Had it been a good reign? In the material balance of things, no, it had not.

Every single one of Barrow's goals had proved worthless in the finding: Timbuctoo was a mud town of no importance; the Niger had little practical application for trade; northern Australia was totally unworkable as the site of a ‘second Singapore'; Antarctica was an inhospitable lump of ice; and the North-West Passage – as Scoresby and others had repeated so wearily – was an utter waste of time. The Open Polar Sea, meanwhile, was not only not worth finding but not even there to be found – although, in Barrow's defence, its absence was only proved in 1909.

Almost everything about Barrow's missions had been wrong – the orders, the ships, the supplies, the funding and the methods. Perhaps no man in the history of exploration has expended so much money and so many lives in pursuit of so desperately pointless a dream.

[anonamom]

Same sh*t, different day.
Media following same script for MAGA that they did for Tea Party:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/media-following-same-script-against-maga-as-it-did-against-tea-party/

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
30m

Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more deranged. He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by Jeff Sessions (another beauty), look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught.....

....There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like and who has done a great job for them with the Military, Vets, Economy and so much more. This was the illegal and treasonous “insurance policy” in full action!

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
50m

“After two years and interviewing more than two hundred witnesses, the Senate Intelligence Committee has NOT discovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and Russia.” Ken Dilanian @NBCNews

[henry]

when you've lost Sharpton (how is that possible here?):

Mediaite
@Mediaite

Rev Al Sharpton: Jussie Smollett Ought to 'Face Accountability to the Maximum' If He Perpetrated a Hoax mediaite.com/a/mplvj

[anonamom]

Extensive collection of reporters' and journalists' Tweets re Jussie here, before they can disavow their falling for and propagating the hoax.
Of course, they can always argue "the narrative" is true:

https://www.mediaite.com/online/did-the-media-jump-the-gun-on-the-jussie-smollett-story/

[henry]

Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions, a Gazprombank source told Reuters on Sunday.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/322085/#respond

[pagar]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215448347456580&set=a.1919296056823&type=3&theater

[henry]

I hope Barr has plenty of coffee this morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
2m

“This was an illegal coup attempt on the President of the United States.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends True!

[pagar]

https://scontent.fpac1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/52522636_487620408437111_8345028551690420224_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_pt=1&_nc_ht=scontent.fpac1-2.fna&oh=7af8e3e8353fb86ad20af8d112a1cde8&oe=5CDFAFA2

Let's fix the border crisis. quit playing around with the American hating political party.