The Media Gaslighting Over Jussie Smollett HOAX Has Begun

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🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Media Gaslighting Over Jussie Smollett HOAX Has Begun. While politicians either refuse to comment or outright delete tweets many high profile journalists from CNN and The Washington Post are claiming that journalists reported this correctly.However, this is just plain not true. This appears to be Covington all over again as Mediaite produced a massive list of journalists from organizations such as Reuters, ABC, NBC, who pushed the narrative as fact. Many others from digital outlets acted as activists pushing what we believe now to be fake news.Leftists and far left personalities defend the media claiming it was only activists and celebrities pushing the Jussie Smollett's narrative but its just not true.The Jussie Smollett story continues to expose activists pretending to be journalists. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Police are now seeking to re-interview Jesse Smollett as news has emerged they believe he staged
0:06.0	this hoax. We are also hearing from TMZ that it may go to a grand jury he may actually be
0:11.6	indicted for staging this crime. I'm sure many of you have been following the story so we do have
0:15.7	a couple updates but the bigger picture here is that many people on the left touted this story as
0:20.8	an example of the hatred from Trump supporters and the racism and white supremacy that is pervasive
0:25.8	in our society today. But as this story unravels and it appears to be false many of these people are
0:31.0	nowhere to be found, no retractions, no apologies, though there are many people on the left who have
0:35.8	come out and condemn this. We're still seeing some politicians refuse to make statements, outright
0:41.2	delete tweets, but more importantly the media gaslighting. As activists try to claim journalists
0:46.8	had no part in this they did a good job. When in reality there's actually a huge list of
0:51.2	journalists pushing fake news in almost exactly the same way that they did with Covington.
0:57.5	So today let's take a quick look at the updates on the Jesse Smollett case and then go through
1:01.5	the huge list of journalists. I'll use air quotes for journalists who pushed out fake news
1:06.4	before they had any facts. But before we get started make sure you follow us over at mines.com
1:11.4	slash subverse where we have this link to our distributed newsroom. In this newsroom you can
1:15.8	chat with us, share stories, fact check and otherwise share stories that you think aren't being
1:20.8	reported. If you want to support these videos just share them to spread the message. Just a quick
1:25.7	update on the latest facts from the AP today, Chicago police seek follow-up interview with Jesse
1:30.5	Smollett. Chicago police said Sunday they're still seeking a follow-up interview with Jesse Smollett
1:35.1	after receiving new information that shifted their investigation of a reported attack on the
1:39.2	Empire actor. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said we're not confirming denying or commenting
1:44.4	on anything until we can talk to him and we can corroborate some information that we've gotten.
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