Fetch me a rope!

[perrykneeham]

I heard he was designing the Garden Bridge.

[Repat Van]

Feb 21, 2019 11:02:03 GMT perrykneeham said:

Well, they'll know who to blame, won't they?

The people carrying out the attacks. Absolutely.

[Repat Van]

Feb 21, 2019 11:03:38 GMT mids said:

Well yeah, healthy scepticism is always a good thing. Is Stephen Lawrence even really dead?

“Healthy scepticism”...

[perrykneeham]

Feb 21, 2019 11:08:57 GMT Repat Van said:

Feb 21, 2019 11:02:03 GMT perrykneeham said:

Well, they'll know who to blame, won't they?

The people carrying out the attacks. Absolutely.

Quite. And given a genuine gripe to boot by your new Rodney King.

[Repat Van]

Feb 21, 2019 11:15:52 GMT perrykneeham said:

Feb 21, 2019 11:08:57 GMT Repat Van said:

The people carrying out the attacks. Absolutely.

Quite. And given a genuine gripe to boot by your new Rodney King.

Yeah but it’s just because racists / homophobes are tossers. So to them the rare false allegation far outweighs all the genuine ones. A bit like rape deniers.

So while they’re tossers Smollet hasn’t helped. It’s quite a mind boggling story. It’s weird he thought he would get away with it. People starting pointing out the dubious parts almost immediately.

[perrykneeham]

Yeah. It sounds like he might be a bit highly strung. And he probably should be.

[mids]

Feb 21, 2019 12:07:14 GMT Repat Van said:

Feb 21, 2019 11:15:52 GMT perrykneeham said:

Quite. And given a genuine gripe to boot by your new Rodney King.

 It’s quite a mind boggling story. It’s weird he thought he would get away with it. 

Entitlement. He knew full well that he'd have the unquestioning support of most of the media and celebritydom. This was a huge, huge story and they all had his back bar a few exceptions. He knew it would be like this. Entitlement. 

[mids]

E.g. watch Canada's most unpleasant person hold forth on the matter. Starts at 7:00. I suffered so you don't have to. I think I'm still triggered or something.

[unclejunior]

www.thewrap.com/chicago-police-commissioner-calls-out-media-stars-and-politicians-for-pushing-smollett-hoax/

[voice]

Feb 21, 2019 10:54:14 GMT Repat Van said:

His actions also mean that for at least the next 20 years homophobes and racists will be using his story to shut down any and every story about actual hate crimes.

didn't take that long....

Feb 21, 2019 11:03:38 GMT mids said:

Is Stephen Lawrence even really dead?

[voice]

its funny the right are bleating about actual media now ignoring what started off as a very minor story, while its blazoned across every media outlet, it was top of the morning news here on the CBC. Its almost as if they never glance even for a moment outside their small tightly enclosed bubble.

[mids]

Nah it burst out of the gate as a huge, huge story, driven by the leftist media. It was only us on the centre right and right that were questioning it. Here are the utter lies that you were pushing hard.

[voice]

you're deluded, as ever, it was a minor story most on here hadn't even seen until it was reveled he made it up, then it became a big story, and now its all over the actual media. The only push back was what you imagined, as usual.

[perrykneeham]

So, if (in the vanishingly unlikely event that Voice isn't re-imagining the facts) this hate crime wasn't widely reported in the US, otbwould appear that UK's lefties certainly went big on it. Big. Huge.

[mids]

Oops.

Back on January 29, when word of Smollett’s ordeal first broke, Pelosi tweeted, “The racist, homophobic attack on @jussiesmollett is an affront to our humanity. No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love. I pray that Jussie has a speedy recovery & that justice is served. May we all commit to ending this hate once & for all.” As initially reported by Business Insider, that tweet has now been deleted.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/nancy-pelosi-jussie-smollett-deleted-tweet

[voice]

well it may have been reported, I didn't see it, and it was not a headline story in Canada (cant say about the US) on the news until it started to unravel, it was probably on the entertainment section or something until that time. now its all over.

[perrykneeham]

Feb 21, 2019 17:37:37 GMT mids said:

Oops.

Back on January 29, when word of Smollett’s ordeal first broke, Pelosi tweeted, “The racist, homophobic attack on @jussiesmollett is an affront to our humanity. No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love. I pray that Jussie has a speedy recovery & that justice is served. May we all commit to ending this hate once & for all.” As initially reported by Business Insider, that tweet has now been deleted.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/nancy-pelosi-jussie-smollett-deleted-tweet

Massive. Immediately massive.

[Repat Van]

Feb 21, 2019 12:17:18 GMT perrykneeham said:

Yeah. It sounds like he might be a bit highly strung. And he probably should be.

A rumour is that he was going to get chucked off the show and that this was a grand play for sympathy.

[Repat Van]

Feb 21, 2019 17:38:10 GMT voice said:

well it may have been reported, I didn't see it, and it was not a headline story in Canada (cant say about the US) on the news until it started to unravel, it was probably on the entertainment section or something until that time. now its all over.

Wasn’t covered here either.

If not for instagram I would never have heard about the original allegations.

[Repat Van]

Feb 21, 2019 16:32:41 GMT voice said:

Feb 21, 2019 10:54:14 GMT Repat Van said:

His actions also mean that for at least the next 20 years homophobes and racists will be using his story to shut down any and every story about actual hate crimes.

didn't take that long....

Feb 21, 2019 11:03:38 GMT mids said:

Is Stephen Lawrence even really dead?

Well in fairness the racists have always alleged Lawrence died because of his dad’s drug deal (of course, they are racists) so they have been doing that for decades.