{"id":6286,"date":"2019-02-25T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:44:38","slug":"thoughts-on-the-smollett-travesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/thoughts-on-the-smollett-travesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the Smollett Travesty"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with everyone else I\u2019ve been amused by the level of dishonesty on exhibit by the various Progressive participants in this farce.\u00a0 At the primary level we have Smollett and his Nigerian-American assistants who faked an attack and made a false police report.\u00a0 They sparked a spate of politician and celebrity condemnations of President Trump, republicans, and in general, anyone who doubted the story.<\/p>\n

At the secondary level we have all of these defenders of Smollett who even after the Chicago police confirmed Smollett\u2019s part in the event refused to condemn him.\u00a0 This is despite the testimony of the brothers who assisted him in the hoax.\u00a0 They still doubt his culpability, preferring to doubt the police testimony rather than face reality about their ally.<\/p>\n

And finally, at the tertiary level we have the media which has gone to great lengths to provide support for Smollett and his defenders in an ever-changing narrative for why all of this is President Trump\u2019s fault.\u00a0 Initially, the story was that President Trump\u2019s supporters were the attackers.\u00a0 Then we were told that background levels of racism were what inspired Smollett to exaggerate this particular incident.\u00a0 And now the story says that the real victims are those poor future victims of racism who won\u2019t be believed because of this present event.<\/p>\n

But just as interesting is looking at the way the various voices on the Right have looked at it.\u00a0 One of the more interesting discussions came from the Z-Man.\u00a0 http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=16618<\/a><\/p>\n

His main point was that the Left isn\u2019t going to acknowledge their error and they aren\u2019t going to learn a lesson.\u00a0 That is why a long string of hoaxes will never lead to an apology from the Left.\u00a0 And that is why right-wing pundits hoping to reason with the Left are wasting their time.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the only useful thing that can happen during one of these events is to help sort out the real allegiance of those in the middle.\u00a0 When some allegedly neutral party starts telling us not to judge or excuses the hoax based on historical oppression you\u2019ve learned something.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you ever find an assumed leftist who finally sees the light you\u2019ve probably found a normie who has finally had enough hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, even someone who in the last few years has been vilified by the Alt-Right as the epitome of Never-Trump foolishness can be acknowledged for a sensible insight into the phoniness of these leftist hoaxes.\u00a0 Here Vox Day acknowledges that even Jonah Goldberg can provide a sensible argument to show the absurdity of these hoaxes.\u00a0 https:\/\/voxday.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/the-obvious-implication-of-hoax-crimes.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The only way I can see good coming from all these events is if someone made a movie out of all these hoax exposures and let it be distributed as widely as possible.\u00a0 Of course, Hollywood and the media companies would never allow their distribution network to show it and the colleges would probably unleash antifa on any student groups that attempted to show it on campus but even internet access would be something useful.\u00a0 It really is remarkable how outrageous some of these phony hate crimes are.<\/p>\n

I wonder what the next one will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with everyone else I\u2019ve been amused by the level of dishonesty on exhibit by the various Progressive participants in this farce.\u00a0 At the primary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[139,1755,1756,491,14,218,886],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-hoax-hate-crimes","tag-smollett","tag-the-z-man","tag-vox-day","tag-z-man","tag-zman"],"yoast_head":"\nThoughts on the Smollett Travesty - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/thoughts-on-the-smollett-travesty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thoughts on the Smollett Travesty - 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