In reference to cough cough “journalist”.
As Smollett made bond in Cook County Criminal Court on Thursday, he looked rather sad, and exhausted.
And Don Lemon asks why.
Why?
This has all been quite perplexing to many of the national TV types on CNN and MSNBC and others of the left, this question of why.
But why ask why?
Long ago, they set aside old-fashioned journalistic skepticism in order to become performance artists.
TV does such a great job squeezing emotion out of grievances and demanding the federal government address the grievances, legitimate or not.
Did Jussie Smollett use the media, or was he created by it?
Johnson didn’t mince words at his news conference on Thursday.
Johnson, a black man, condemned Smollett, a black man, for using a noose as a prop. That mocked the real and ugly and deadly history of African-Americans as true victims of racism, Johnson said.
“To make things worse,” Johnson said, “the accusations within this phony attack received national attention for weeks.
“Celebrities, news commentators, and even presidential candidates weighed in on something that was choreographed by an actor,” Johnson said.
The inconvenient truth in all of this?
Smollett is an actor, and a rather stupid one at that. He’s considered the criminal, yes, but he performed as expected. He played the innocent victim of Republican intolerance.
The Smollettburo approved. They enabled him.
And now they ask why?