Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left and the media, but I repeat myself, have embarrassed themselves yet again with this jussie-small-at-hate-crime-hokes story.

But will they learn anything from this? Will there be any self-assessment on their part? No, of course not, but we'll talk about that.

Also, I want to discuss why victimhood has become such a desirable status in modern America, so desirable that people will make up hate crimes, just so they can be a victim.

And finally, speaking of fake victimhood, we'll talk about Colin Kaepernick's multi-million dollar payout from the NFL. All of that today on the Matt Wall Show.

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All right, Smolet, Smolet, Smolet, Smolet, Smolet. Still haven't figured out how to pronounce the guys last name. I guess I should have checked by now.

Poor old jussie-smolet might be in a bit of trouble. Let me get you caught up on the latest first in case you weren't paying attention over the weekend.

And, you know, frankly, I hope that you were not paying attention over the weekend. I hope that you have a life and you do other things on the weekend besides check the news online.

So the Empire actor, well, you're aware of this part. He claimed he was assaulted and a hate crime committed by two white Trump supporters at 2 a.m. Chicago and negative 10 degree temperatures while he was walking back from subway with a tuna sandwich.

And he says he was beaten, put a noose was put around his neck, bleach was poured on him. They shouted, this is mega country in Chicago, called him racial and homophobic slurs and so on.

So you know that part of the story. You also know, especially if you've been listening to this show that the story is, of course, absurd and obviously a hoax and you didn't even.

You didn't really need any other information. You didn't need to know about the fact that, for instance, he's on camera for all but 60 seconds of the of his walk back from subway.

There's no assault recorded in that in that chunk of time. But you didn't need to know that to know that this is a fable.

But now the picture is becoming more clear for anyone who didn't already see it clearly late last week, two men who appeared in the security camera footage.

Walking near because nobody else appears in the footage except for Smollett and then these two guys who are seeing walking near the site of the alleged attack.

And then it turns out that they're Nigerians also friends of Smollett's one of them is a small it's physical trainer or worked out partner or whoever they know each other.

One or both of them has appeared on the show empire before.

And they were questioned were very briefly described as suspects.

And they were released unceremoniously and rather quickly and law enforcement sources told the media that they the brothers confessed that the whole attack was staged.

Smollett according to these sources paid these guys to attack him. It was all a setup. They paid the sources say it was 3500 bucks that they were paid.

Which seems a little on the cheap side. If someone's going to pay you to attack them, I think I mean shouldn't that run at least 10,000 I would think.

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