It’s a shocking Wednesday: a shocking decision by prosecutors in Chicago in the Jussie Smollett case; former vice president Joe Biden makes a shocking self-own in an attempt to sell himself to progressives; an in-depth investigation offers a shocking indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center; and Adam Schiff shocks the world by insisting that Robert Mueller wasn’t thorough enough.
The Obama Administration’s Awkward Reunion around Jussie Smollett
Every step of Jussie Smollett’s plot always included an element of the absurd. Out of all of the possible locations for a sudden, unprovoked hate crime targeting a gay black man, he picked downtown Chicago. Out of all the possible nights to fake a hateful attack, he picked the coldest evening in Chicago in three decades. Then his assailants couldn’t have merely picked him as a target because he was black or because he was gay; these alleged racist homophobes had to be Empire fans who recognized him from the show. It wasn’t enough for him to be beaten; the assailants had to spray a bleach-like liquid on ...
