Nobody should be above the law! Make an example of her and shams like this will be very rare! When you betray the public trust and your oath, you deserve to be prosecuted!
He's been up for that award for several years. Cons expect people's talents to be recognized, politics aside. Smollett has been cleared of all charges. Why can't an innocent man carry on with his life?
Yup. Thus Illinois gov. Blago is still in the slam for violating the public trust and oath and rightfully so. I dont have an opinion on whether Blago's is sentence is long enough or too long- but certainly his actions needed to be treated seriously and he needed to do some considerable time and he has so I have no bitch there. Certainly it would not have right to do nothing. Same with Smollette. I dont have an opinion on what the sentencing outcome should be as long you do something that treats it seriously and dont do something totally stupid and crooked. Unfortunately, that was asking too much I guess. Sheesh. They let him off, they expunged his record as though it never happened, and then his attorney tells the city that her client is the victim. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
And now, Jussie Smollet to add insult to injury will sue the city for damages and defamation and claim tens of millions in damages and they will probably, pay him too!
How anyone in their right mind would come out to defend this POS is pure stupid. Nolte: Jussie Smollett’s Career Doomed By Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan, ‘SNL’ Theo Wargo/Getty Images for VH1 Trailblazer Honors JOHN NOLTE3 Apr 20191,104 4:01 The crooked Cook County state’s attorney saved Jussie Smollett from taking legal responsibility for his hate crime hoax, but the entertainment community is making damn sure he suffers career consequences. Jussie Smollett undoubtedly assumed he would be inoculated from ridicule no matter what he did since, in the sacred cow department, his “identity” is a quadruple threat: black, gay, a leftist, a Trump hater. This means that under normal circumstances, there isn’t anything he could not get away with; that every terrible thing he did would actually increase his standing within the Hollywood community. Just look at Alec Baldwin, Kathy Griffin, James Gunn, and Jake Tapper. Smollett’s hate hoax, however, is a bridge too far, even for Hollywood, and thus far he’s been held up for public ridicule and eviscerated by Saturday Night Live, Chris Rock, and Tracy Morgan, and Jimmy Fallon. Breitbart TV Jussie Smollett Hit with Crazy Expensive Bad News from Chicago's Mayor Think about that… For a decade, no one had the moral courage to mock Barack or Michelle Obama, Eric Holder, Joe Biden, etc… But Jussie is getting laughed off the planet; nowhere near as loudly as a conservative would in this circumstance, but still. And this is not a small deal, because what it means is that the very small and very tight world of show biz is writing him off, casting him out, voting him off the island. There are even serious rumblings Smollett will be fired from his hit TV series Empire, which would be a devastating blow for a 36-year-old so desperate for fame and fortune he manufactured a ludicrous but potentially dangerous hate crime against himself. Empire producers might have no choice but to fire Smollett. Since his hate hoax was exposed, ratings for the aging series have bottomed out. This ratings crash also directly reflects on Smollett since he stars in these episodes. The producers did not remove him until recently, which means his toxic appearance will remain until the season’s final two or three episodes. Another factor in Fox’s decision will be public opinion, and when you have SNL and Chris Rock telling the world Smollett is a joke who doesn’t deserve respect, the writing is on the wall. But Smollett is a joke, a walking punchline, a circus clown who has destroyed his public persona unlike anyone since O.J. Simpson. Worse still, in the process of making a public fool of himself, he did something everyone agrees is beyond contempt. In the middle of a freezing Chicago night, Smollett claimed he was assaulted by two white Trump supporters who wore Make America Great Again hats, poured bleach on his black skin, wrapped a noose around his neck, and screamed “This is MAGA country!” It also appears as though Smollett planned on having this hoax recorded on a surveillance camera. Thankfully, the camera was pointing the wrong way. Can you imagine if this fake attack had been caught on film? We all watched in open-mouthed horror as illegitimate and irresponsible news outlets like CNN fire hosed the predominantly black, working class city of Ferguson, Missouri, with the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” hoax. What demagogues like Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo would have done with footage of two Trump supporters assaulting a gay, black man is the stuff of nightmares. And let’s not forget that Smollett is currently standing by his ridiculous story, which means he is hanging two innocent black men out to dry. Obviously they are not innocent of conspiring to fabricate a hate hoax, but they are innocent of a hate-driven assault, which is a much more serious crime. So what we have here is a man willing to risk delivering the horrors of Ferguson to Chicago just so he can enhance his public profile and assume the role of a living martyr by framing supporters of President Trump. Monstrous behavior. Evil. But just as damaging to Smollett’s career and reputation is the fact that his scheme was so stupid and poorly planned he is now the Wile E. Coyote of hate crimes, which begs for ridicule. Follow John Nolte on Twitter@NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page here.
Oh no, not pure stupid, but pure partisanship. Folks on the left being lefties. Defend the actions of one of their own to the death, no matter how foolish it makes them look. Switch everything around, put it on a white guy - hell, put it on a black guy who is a conservative and there will be blood in the water. The left will paper it to every bill board, run shows 24/7 on it, all the lefties here will sink their teeth into it over and over again. Exact same facts.