[Impala64ssa]

The celebrity and media asshats who were so emotionally invested in the Smollett hoax, JoyLESS Blowhard in particular are scrambling to blame it on everything except where that blame belongs. An overrated, overpaid line reader whose "illustrious" career is approaching the jump the shark stage. This is reminiscent of the time Al Sharlaton was on Hannity's radio show, and Hannity FINALLY got him to admit the Tawana Brawler fiasco was a hoax, but he quickly added he was "mislead" by certain individuals.

[Sacajaweau]

Same reason the media is falling for Baldwin’s “I didn’t pull the trigger”....because they promote these rotten “icons”.

[FrankRizzo890]

Why? EASY! It fits their favored narrative. It’s the kind of stories they WANT to be true.

[AAABEST]

They didn’t “fall” for anything. It was intentional.

[cdcdawg]

They didn’t “fall” for anything; they knowingly promoted a lie.

[AZJeep]

CRT teaches that these things happened all the time.

[kvanbrunt2]

I think they are just propagandists. Godless. not really believing in anything but commie power.

[Hiddigeigei]

Most people believe what they want to believe; what their identity group believes, even obvious nonsense.

[AppyPappy]

They desperately wanted it to be true. The fact that Jussie had to make it up points to the liberals wanting to fix a problem that isn’t happening while ignoring a problem that is happening.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They most assuredly did not “fall for it.” That is preposterous.

It was useful to push the “racist police” narrative as well as the “evil white MAGA homophobes attack innocent black dude” narrative. They pushed this as hard as they did for the same reason they turned the Waukesha Christmas Parade into “an SUV did it” story.

The press are evil, lying, communist sacks of shee-it.