Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press. Yes God.

God.

God don't never change.

This is the Plotcast episode 222. I'm Douglas Wilson and I'm glad you decided to join me.

A little bit ago a few weeks now at the time you're hearing this a jury came back with a conviction for Jesse Smollett. I'm not sure that's how you pronounce it. I'll just say

Jossie Smollett because I'm not French. You say Smolé. Not that. small that

he was at because I'm not French. You say smollet, not that. You remember that he was the actor, he was a black

actor and a homosexual actor who arranged for a couple of guys to beat him up.

This was a few years ago and he reported it as a hate crime against him, directed it against him because he was black and because he was homosexual.

And he was out at night in sub-zero, well I don't know if it sub-zero temperature, it was really cold.

He was in Chicago in the middle of the night, out getting food or something, and his story was he was accosted by two men in MAGA hats who called

him a faggot and beat him up because he was black and homosexual.

And when he reported this hate crime,

the left-wing world, we'll call it, left-wing world,

jumped on it like a duck on a June bug.

You know, just, we automatically believe Jesse.

We automatically believe this was a hate crime.

We don't have to investigate, We don't have to check.

Well, the story came unraveled fairly quickly,

and then was resurrected when Smollett was accused and tried of faking his very own hate crime, either to get his name in the papers again

or to juice some failing publicity or to get attention, I'm not sure.

But, so the jury just came back and found him guilty of concocting

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