My latest in PJ Media:
Jussie Smollett is guilty, guilty as sin, and the Left has been completely wrong-footed in their latest attempt to tar dissidents from their agenda as violent, racist hatemongers. (Don’t worry; they’ll keep trying.) But being a Leftist means you never have to say you’re sorry, because you will seldom, if ever, be called to account for your false statements, however outrageous and incendiary they may have been; everything is forgiven if you’re advancing the cause of our right-thinking moral superiors. Thus it was a bit of a surprise, given the sycophantic posture of the establishment media whenever a Democrat is in the White House, that Jen Psaki was actually asked about the inflammatory and false statements made by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris about the Smollett case. Typically, however, she deflected attention away from them and onto none other than the Left’s favorite whipping boy, a Florida man known as Donald J. Trump. Really, what would the Left do without him?
Psaki was asked, “Both the president and the vice president tweeted at the time of the attack. The president tweeted, ‘What happened to Jussie Smollett must never be tolerated in this country. We’re with you, Jussie.’ The vice president called it ‘an attempted modern-day lynching.’ Since the guilty verdict, are there any lessons learned here on rushing to judgement when a crime is alleged?”
The press secretary was not in the mood to issue any mea culpas. Instead, she said, “I think there are lessons learned perhaps for everybody who commented at the time, including former president Trump.” She quoted Trump saying of the alleged attack on Smollett, “I can tell you that it’s horrible, it doesn’t get worse.”
This was supremely disingenuous, even more so than Psaki usually is. While it is true that Trump’s immediate reaction to the Smollett case as it was initially reported in January 2019, before it became clear that the whole thing was a hoax, was, “I think that’s horrible. It doesn’t get worse as far as I’m concerned.” However, once it was clear that Smollett was lying, Trump was unequivocal. When Smollett was arrested in February 2019, Trump tweeted: “What about MAGA and the tens of millions of people you insulted with your racist and dangerous comments?” He declared in March 2019, “I think the case in Chicago is an absolute embarrassment to our country and I have asked that it be — that they look at it. Somebody has to at least take a very good hard look.”
In contrast, on January 29, 2019, Biden tweeted, “What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country. We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.” On the same day, Kamala Harris tweeted, “@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery. This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.”
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Infidel says
Why not do a visa exchange, maybe a J1: send Smollett to Nigeria, the home of the Osundairo brothers, and give the Osundairo brothers citizenship after stripping Smollett of his? At least there won’t be -40F/C winter nights and Smollett will be more credible w/ any hoax he stages
Wellington says
This serves as just one more example of why I call Jen Psaki Baghdad Bobette.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Yes, Baghdad Bobette.
But I’ll have to give her this: she’s pretty good at deflecting, “circling back”, outright lying, etc.
All this for creepy Sleepy Joe…
Wellington says
Actually, James, I find Psaki kinda’ creepy too because of her “manner.”
Let me put it another way, would you buy a used car from this woman?
somehistory says
I wouldn’t let her clean my bathroom. She is a lying sleaze, imo.
James Lincoln says
NO!
libertyORdeath says
Funny that they use the fact that Trump said that a purported hate crime was horrible to then claim he is a racist.
Walter Sieruk says
Jen Psaki speak lies about “how good” Joe Biden is for American. The harsh reality is very different. For Biden is wrecking the US economy.
The villainy of Joe Biden has no limits, as seen in many American workers losing their much need jobs seen in the oil pipeline business.
High prices for fuel and the gas station and at the grocery store, the supermarket empty shelves are becoming more and empty. Likewise, prices are growing higher. Things will get worse.
All because of that awful Biden with his socialist economics, he is a disaster for both America and the American people.
Walter Sieruk says
Since Jen Psaki now works that disingenuous, dishonest falsehood telling creepy Joe Biden as his spokesperson, Press Secretary, she now has a new nickname .Which is “Little Red Lying Hood”
One example of this is that she said the “President Biden” is so active and energetic that “I can hardly keep up with him.”
A healthy young as Psaki can’t “hardly keep up with” that feeble old man who can’t even walk up one flight of stairs to get into the Presidential plane is, indeed, a lying statement of pure balderdash.
tgusa says
Democrats are incapable of any sort of leadership. No matter how big they fail, among democrats, it is always someone else’s fault. That is why they never get anything of even the slightest importance done right. Democrats remind me of angry kindergartners.
somehistory says
That’s an insult to kindergartners. They more resemble lying, angry, psychopaths dressed as democrats.
tgusa says
I know. I apologize, to all kindergartners. If you watched Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones show and listened to his comments regarding Smollett Dave lets the cat out of the bag. Dave says, it was obvious to blacks that Jussie was lying. Dave said that blacks were being accused of not supporting Jussie because of homophobia. Dave said, that is wrong, blacks are supporting Jussie (the liar), through their silence. So there it is. I guess you have to be a certified scumbag to become a democrat.
Democrats, across the board, don’t think things through. Therefore they cannot be compared to kindergartners.
somehistory says
She has this way about her….in her posture, in her voice, in the look on her face….of a smart aleck. And she lies, and talks down to people much more intelligent than she…a.k.a. Peter Doocy.. She reeks of arrogance.
Wellington says
Yep. The only good thing about her is that she has actually managed to become a parody of herself. In this one way, I sometimes enjoy watching her (though I still can’t take more than about ten minutes of her pomposity and mendacity).
Rufolino says
Little Red Lying Hood and Cackling Kemala are two of a kind, and fellow-travellers on the road to a Lefty Utopia built on falsehoods.
OLD GUY says
Hey give Baghdad Bobette/Little Red Lying Hood a break, she gets paid for saying these things, its her job to spread Bull S–t and she is trying to be good at it. But she is not vary convincing as you can tell she doesn’t even believe what she is saying.