WEBVTT - Hate Crime Hoax Exposed 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:16.960 You are entering the freedom hunt. The Jesse Smollett hoax 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:22.000 has collapsed. He was arrested and arraigned today in court. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.759 Why did the media get this one so wrong? And 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.800 what does it tell us about hate crimes that there 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.720 are now those who are saying Smollett might just get 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.760 off with probation at thatt Amore Coming up on the 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.200 buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show where 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.159 the mission where mission is to decode what really matters 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:47.760 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America. You're a great 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:54.120 American again. The buck Sexton Show begins, analysts, he's a 0:00:54.160 --> 0:01:00.240 great guy. Now they are looking for two suspect who 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.800 are apparently wearing make America Great Again hats. We don't 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.560 know what happened to Jesse, but what we do know 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.080 is that racism is alive and well in this country. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.080 There is real evidence of people who have done these 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.920 crimes who cite that the President has inspired. Then Senator 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.240 Corey Booker said, the vicious attack when actor Jesse was 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.600 an attempt at modern day lynching a Hollywood star who's 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.120 black and gay and now the victim of a heinish crime, 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.920 not of that attack at a star of a TV show, Empire. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.520 Jesse Smollett from the hit show Empire was attacked and 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.800 beaten early this morning in Chicago, and police say it 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.080 could be a hate crime. I'm so shaken by the story. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.319 I know he walked himself to the hospital. Do we 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.200 know how he is now? Connect the dots. This is 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.720 what happens if you are in a position of power 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.480 and you hate people, and this is America. In twenty nineteen, 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.480 he opened up about what he's learned and the bigger 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.440 message he wants the world to hear. How can you 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.880 doubt that? How do you not believe that it's the truth. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.440 And then it became a thing of like, oh, it's 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.880 not necessarily that you don't believe that this is the truth. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:09.520 You don't even want to see the truth. Welcome to 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.079 the Buck Sexton Show. Sorry, we had to start out 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:17.560 there with just lies and falsehoods and more lies and more, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.720 all of it false, all of that stuff that we 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.360 were being told there by the media, some of the 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.239 biggest platforms in the country, some of the most self 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:35.840 loving journals around, big big fans of spreading this hoax 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:42.320 around there. That's what they did. Man, it is interesting 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.160 to be right here, I am. Let's just do a 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.080 quick count of where we are team versus where the 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:54.000 mainstream media is Cavanaugh, Covington, Smallett. Can they point to 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.360 any conservative hoaxes in the last year. I just wanted 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.280 to where's the big conservative hoax? Or we were on 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.520 this show. I was like, well this happened, and no, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:09.240 it didn't happen. My bad ah was never never brought up. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.280 Didn't happen? Did it? Yet? Here we are, there's so 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.079 much going on here. Oh, we're gonna have some fun 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:23.760 on this story. So smallt was. Smallett was arrested taking 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.200 down a court Today, he's out on a hundred thousand 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:33.360 dollars bail. And you had a member of the Chicago PD, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.800 I believe it was Police chief came Eddie Johnson came 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:44.520 out today and he lets Smollett have it play eleven 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.760 attempted to gain attention by sending a false letter that 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.560 relied on racial, homophobic, and political language. When that didn't work, 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.520 it's let pay thirty five hundred dollars to stage this 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.720 attack and drag Chicago's reputation through the mud in the process. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.800 And why this stunt was orchestrated by Smolette because he 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.040 was dissatisfied with his salary, so he concocted a story 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.080 about being attacked to put the national spotlight on Chicago 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.640 for something that is both egregious and untrue. Is simply shameful. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.800 I'm also concerned about what this means moving forward to 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.800 hate crimes. Of my concern is that hate crimes will 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.880 now publicly be met with a level of skepticism that 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.800 previously didn't happen. Now, let's just look at some of 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.200 the details before we go too far to the analysis here. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.440 Let's do some of the details. Smolett. I guess that 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.480 is how we say his name, I've been Smolett Smolet. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.000 Perhaps if we wouldn't get kind of a French vibe 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:51.840 there messieurs Smolet. But no, it's it's Smolette. He has 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:57.400 engaged in, according to police, now two to hate crime hoaxes. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.280 One was sending a letter to himself with threatening, threatening 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:07.919 stuff and racial slurs, and then this even bigger hoax 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:15.279 involving a three thousand dollars plus payment to two brothers 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:20.000 who were helping him to stage in attack. Some details 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.320 that I think you should know about, though. One is 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:28.840 that Smolette paid the brothers with a check. That's right, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.640 the thirty five hundred dollars was paid via check. Now, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.479 I'm not some arch criminal, Okay, I'm not somebody that 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.960 you know. I don't even like getting a speeding ticket. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.480 I stay inside the law. But I'm telling you this much. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:48.040 If I were trying to engage in some illegal activity 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.520 of this kind to stage some kind of an elaborate hoax, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.880 I think I'd pay cash. I just think that's a 0:05:55.920 --> 0:06:00.560 better move than to leave an obvious financial she'll trail 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.599 to your co conspirators. I'm just putting that out there. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:09.440 Probably a good move. Also, since since we're gonna break down, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.880 I'm sorry, this is the dumbest hate crime hoax that 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.600 I that I've heard of or seen in years. I mean, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:21.159 there's some very dumb ones out there, but this one is. Wow. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:30.719 Smolette is not exactly an evil genius. So he paid 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.559 these kys via check. I wonder how he's gonna explain 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.600 that one to the cops I saw today, As lawyers say, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.960 he's looking forward to clearing his name. Yeah, how are 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.360 you gonna do that? Exactly? But the two guys that 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:49.320 he the two brothers that he paid to help him 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.120 in this attack, which is also I would note, an enormous, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.080 an enormous mistake. The osund Row brothers, Olah and Abel, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:07.880 they went into a hardware store and bought masks, red hats, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:13.120 and rope for the quote noose and they did this 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:19.640 on video. I've also heard that they had the magazines 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.840 that they used to cut the letters out of to 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.760 create there. But I'm sure there's DNA in it, by 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.400 the way, I mean, if they're showing up on video 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.360 buying this stuff, they probably paid with credit card too. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:35.480 I mean, I just these guys. This is the most bumbling, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.680 buffoonish hoax hate crime imaginable. And yet look how long 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.080 it took for the media to finally turn this around. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.240 Look how long before they were willing to say, you 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.920 know what, maybe we made some kind of a mistake here, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.080 maybe there's maybe there's an issue. And now they're saying, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.840 well that the Democrats who were initially jumping in are saying, ah, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.480 we might have made we might have made a little 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.880 mistake here. We might have Kamala Harris Kirston Jilla Brand, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.960 who I really enjoyed Tucker's monologue last not on his show, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:09.920 on Kirston Jill brand Worth going back and seeing if 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.800 you haven't worre Mache's just a nasty phony, just an 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:18.000 out and out phony. But Democrats don't mind that kind 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.040 of stuff. But Jilla brand and Harris and Booker, they've 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:27.880 all come out and sure enough after saying that this 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.440 was terrible and oh it's Trump's fault and all this stuff, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.079 now I'm like, yeah, you know, maybe you know, maybe 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.839 we should have waited a little bit, Maybe we should 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:41.640 wait for the facts. Now, Oh, wait for the facts now. Okay, okay, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.240 that's interesting. Let's give you some more facts. Since they 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.400 want to wait for facts, here's the police chief, Eddie Johnson, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:57.160 talking about more of the stuff that they have. Play eleven. Oh, 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:02.520 I'm sorry, Play ten. This case, in particular involved hours 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.640 of video evidence, which, when combined with old fashioned police work, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.520 uncovered the truth. These detectives deserve all the credit in 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.880 the world for carefully analyzing the leads and the evidence 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.240 for weeks before coming to their conclusion. I'd also like 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.880 to thank the FBI for their helping this investigation. I 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.480 only hope that the truth about what happened receives the 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:31.079 same amount of attention that the Hopes did. I'll continue 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.560 to pray for its troubled young man who resorted to 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:40.520 both drastic and illegal tactics to gain attention. We know 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.920 that it won't receive the same amount of attention though. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:49.319 We know that the multi billion dollars news media apparatus 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.240 in this country is going to find a way to quickly, 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.480 as quickly as possible, move right past this story because 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.240 their audience doesn't want to hear about this. Their audience 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.520 want to be told, hey, crimes are rising, Hey crimes 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:10.960 are rising, And I say, wow, where on what time frame? 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:16.319 What kind of crimes attributable to whom? When you actually 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.240 look at the numbers, what you find out, by the way, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.640 is that the single single group that suffers religious group 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.800 that suffers the greatest amount of hate crimes, for example, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:29.880 is anti submiticate crimes. But the left is not that 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.839 they don't turn those into national news stories. Generally, this 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:41.240 is a national news story, a black gay actor attacked 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.719 by Trump's supporters. It couldn't have been more perfect. It's 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.200 it's like this was concocted, this whole story by a 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:54.319 couple of you know, undergrad film majors covered with hashtag 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.840 resistance tattoos in some you know coffee shop in Los Angeles. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.439 I mean, this should not have ever even nobody should 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.720 have ever thought that this was a good plan and 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.480 this made any sense, and that Jesse Smollett, who or 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.040 Smolette who is an actor, couldn't have come up with 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.320 a more convincing story. I don't know, I haven't seen 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.480 him in the show Empire, but you can't be a 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.800 very good actor. I'm just guessing the cops thought that 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.640 this might have been a hoax from the beginning. They 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.439 tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. Play 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:34.120 thirteen here, John Well, to be perfectly honest, from the 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.520 very beginning, we had some questions about it, but as 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.720 I said, we gave mister Smolett the benefit of the 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.720 doubt all the way up until that forty seventh hour 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:45.880 of the forty eight hours, we could hold those two 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.280 individuals because we just didn't have the total package to 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.000 support that it was a hoax. So when you heard 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.959 me coming out saying we are treating him like a victim, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.200 that was the truth, because at that time that's what 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:04.760 he was speaking of. Victims. You know who Smilette victimized here, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.840 not just the millions of Trump supporters across the country 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:13.800 who knew that their reputations collectively were being tarnished. You 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.920 know that this was always meant to be a judgment 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.160 on all of us, those who vote for Trump, who 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.400 support Trump, who believe in his promise to make America 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.439 great again. We were the bad guys. That's what was 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.720 at the heart of this. But the people that really 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.960 suffered are the people of Chicago, with the over a 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:38.760 dozen law enforcement officers who were assigned to this. When 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.720 you have a city that has a terrible violence problem 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.920 and a very high unsolved murder rate to bring those 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.640 kinds of police resources, I've seen estimates that this might 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.880 have even cost in terms of police man hours, hundreds 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.600 of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:04.640 so that this clown Smolette could turn himself into some 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:09.479 kind of cause celeb turn himself into not just a celebrity, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:14.760 but that rarefied and oh so desirable on the left, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:25.320 victimized celebrity, special category, social justice approved celebrity. Oh what 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:31.880 could be more wonderful than that? But he was upset. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.520 He was upset with his salary on the show and 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.040 thought if he got more attention, he would make more money. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:45.640 So Smolette is a narcissist, an idiot, and a bratt 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.440 Think of how many people rushed to his aid to 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.920 believe him, to run interference for him. Think of how 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.720 this became a national news story. None of the kids 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.360 who have been shot in chicag I go in the 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.800 last thirty or sixty days, none of them have turned 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.320 into national news stories. Lives lost, family shattered. That that 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.680 doesn't get the media's attention. This a guy who I 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.280 also read today, created his own wound. I mean that 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:20.000 little scratch on his face. If two guys poured bleach 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.280 on you and put a noose around your neck and 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.240 manage to do that, and we're trying to hurt you, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.200 I think you'd have more than a tiny little scratch 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:28.760 on your cheek. I mean it looked like he cut 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:35.880 himself shaving. Whose terrible attack. You know it was all 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.640 a lie. It was all a lie. And I know 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.960 that there are other things in the country we should 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.080 focus on, and we will shortly, But today is when 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.920 the whole thing finally came crashing down. So you'll have 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.840 to excuse me if I have a moment here to 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:52.200 just say, isn't it good to be right? Team? You 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.120 listen to this show. I don't have a I don't 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.680 have a hundred reporters. I don't have some huge newsroom 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.880 at my beck and call and everything else. I just 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.400 read and think and analyze and bring all of the 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.120 knowledge and all the assistance that I can from all 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.280 of you who listen into that process. And somehow we know. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.920 We knew this was garbage. That's why we kept doing 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.360 the Jessie Small and updates as we went along. Year up, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.160 it looks pretty bad. So we were right and they 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.720 were wrong. The fake news can't figure it out, but 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.040 we can. We should do a little victory dance, and 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.040 you know what today is victory dance Day. We'll be 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:34.320 right back. Can we be honest? But to certain groups 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.280 of people, even if they were skeptical there, like they said, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.680 I hope this is not true. Black folks, gay folks, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.440 people are like, oh my god, I hope you know why. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.400 And you know why black folks, gay folks say that 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.200 because they are real victims of well, because there are 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:56.040 real victims of homophobia and of racism, but also because 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.840 unfortunately we tend to all be painted with the same 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.160 brush when one person and does wrong. And that's why 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.520 we always say that when something goes wrong, is we 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.640 hope the person is not black, We hope the person 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.000 is not gay. Yeah, I don't agree with a lot 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.680 of people that are out there saying that this, this 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.200 hurts the victims of real hate crimes, because real hate 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:21.120 crimes are crimes, right, great, No one, no one hears 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:25.560 a story about you know, some some bad person somewhere 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.120 who are you know, No one hears a story about 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.440 some bad person who attacks you know, a woman because 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.880 she's you know, wearing a her job or because you know, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.360 and says, well, that can't be true. And if it 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.400 is true, everyone wants the person punished. But those are 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.120 those are real. And look, there are a lot of 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.000 hoaxes out there too that involve things like that. But 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.960 you know, though those are real things. I don't. I 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:53.600 don't agree with this, This completely implausible story that Jesse Smollett, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.120 you know, fool the media into into believing somehow now 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.160 undermines everybody. No, you know, if someone says something terrible 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.280 and racist and punches somebody in the face outside of 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.560 a restaurant somewhere. My first reaction is I'm like, oh, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.720 that's terrible. You know, I wonder did the police get them? 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.160 What happened? When someone says that, you know they had 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:19.000 two Maga hot wearing noose carrying you know, this is 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.159 Maga Country yelling guys in Chicago at two o'clock in 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.760 the morning. You know, No, it just wasn't incredible. It 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:31.320 was incredible. Don Lemons also he said that he's been texting, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.240 you know, he's over at CNN. I used to dude, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.560 Don show a fair amountain then I wised up. It's 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:42.439 texting frequently with Smolette. Doesn't that impact the coverage? I 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.000 mean I always say if someone's a friend, not because 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:46.920 I'm like the person's my friend, but because I want 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.199 you to know that if there's someone I have to 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.280 talk about here on the show that I have any 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.399 kind of personal relationship with, I think you should at 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.880 least know that. And as you know, I also don't 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.119 trash my friends. I have a rule. I don't trash 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:05.200 friends on air, but or even particularly harshly criticize them. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.560 That said, why is it okay for Don Lemon to 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.760 have a personal relationship with this guy and do stories 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.840 on him night after night on the show. I'm just wondering, well, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.760 where are the journal is John? Is Don Lemon a journalist? 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.760 Is any mean Don Lemon? Is he a journalist? Does 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.920 CNN have a Can they give us an official ruling 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:24.600 on that? I mean, he's obviously not, but I just 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.679 want to know if CNN is delusional enough to think 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.359 that he is. Eight four four nine hundred two eight 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.760 two five. Let's open up those lines, team, tell much 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.120 to think about this small Lett situation. Eight four four 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.000 nine hundred two eight two five eight four four nine 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:44.000 hundred buck light him up. I know, Jesse, I love him. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.480 We have to understand this is happening for a reason. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.840 Why all of a sudden do we have people unable 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.480 to study well, black, unable to mo alan while black, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.400 unable to have a picnic while black, and being attacked. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.840 It's coming from the President of the United States, Dog Whistlin. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:05.800 Every day he's separating and dividing, and he is basically 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:14.520 embolding those folks. This is the problem with the approach 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.080 that the Democrat politicians and the media take to these 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.920 situations where they just say, well, we're gonna go all 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.119 in on what we want it to be, what we 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.919 want to be true, and then if we're proven to 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.000 be completely and utterly wrong, which they have been, yeah, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:29.880 maybe we'll walk it back a little bit, or we'll 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.000 just move on to something else. And the media will say, Okay, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.520 maybe we got that wrong, but you know, no big deal. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.480 The problem is that there is lasting damage that is 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:47.640 created from the propagation of the lie. There you had 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.919 Maxiine Waters, very well known member of Congress. I believe 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:56.159 she's on the now. She might be running the finance 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.480 I ever forget, not not the oversight Committe, it's some 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:02.719 kind of financial committee. I forget what a producer, Mike, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.879 we let me know what it is. She's a She's 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.960 on a pretty important committee in Congress now because the 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.360 Democrats obviously control the House. But she just went through 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:15.080 this whole thing of essentially telling any any person listening, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.800 and I think it would resonate, particularly with Black Americans, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.199 that you know, you can't quote study while black, have 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.720 a picnic while black. All these she says all these things, 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.960 and it's reckless for her to say these things because 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.960 it's just not true. What she's saying is not true, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.000 and Jessie the the lie that he told. Even if 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.959 it were true, it wouldn't prove all these things that 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:47.160 she says. But people will hear Maxi and Waters using 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:53.120 this incident in order to create this this storyline about 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.359 how America is still so racist. I mean, the left 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:59.959 is so invested in making Americans believe but we are 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:07.040 a uniquely and deeply and irredeemably racist country that there's 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:11.040 a desperation to find racism all the time. I would 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.399 just note that if we were so racist, it wouldn't 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.560 be so hard to find real instances of national news 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:22.040 level racism. They would not have to make it up. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.560 And that's why I read do You Last No? Earlier 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.760 this week that string. She's the House Financial Services She's 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.080 the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Maxie Waters, Yeah, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.119 that was the one. So I read you that string 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.760 of hoaxes because I don't want any of you to think, 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.959 because you'll hear it in the media. Oh hey, crimes 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.919 are on the rise and hoaxes are rare. M Actually 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:49.320 not true. Why would there ever be a hoax of 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.199 this kind? It's so strange, how many hoax burglaries. Do 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.040 you know of how many hoax you know? Go down 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.400 the list where where do the hoaxes occur? Usually where 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:02.800 there's some political incentive, which then to among the dumbest 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.639 questions of all that will be asked now and you 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:10.439 will see people asking this question. I guarantee it. Why 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:14.720 would he do this? Why would JUSSI do this? He 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.840 has he has nothing to gain. Where have you heard 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.879 this before? By the way, he has nothing. Oh, just 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:31.959 like how Christine blasi Ford, another fabricator, had nothing to gain. Hm, 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:37.480 she had lots to gain. Actually, as we know, Smollett 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.280 clearly thought he had a lot to gain from this, 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.680 and for the first few weeks he did national news 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:48.359 story sympathetic anchors, He sat down with Robin Roberts at ABC, 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:54.240 and you know became he became a trending topic on 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.760 social media. Everybody was you know, he had he had 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:05.440 future president or current presidential candidates jumping forward to come 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:11.879 to Jesse's defense. Everybody knows that this can also result 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:14.600 not just in the elevation of your profile, but the 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:20.800 acceleration of your career and the enrichment of your bank accounts. 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:25.639 Look at Colin Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick was past his prime 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:29.400 NFL quarterback. The people that I know who know football, 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.400 that I trust, I've talked about this many times before, 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.119 and they're like, the guy, he just wasn't that good. 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.560 And he was doing something with his taking of the 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:40.600 knee and his pig socks for cops. He was doing 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:44.400 stuff that alienated the audience. And guess what, No one 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.439 has a civil right to be a professional football player. 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:50.080 No one has a guarantee that they get to be 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:55.800 a multi millionaire athlete. It is entertainment. If your movies stink, 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.080 you don't get to be in more movies. At least 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:00.520 you shouldn't be If people don't want to watch you 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.760 on a football field, doesn't matter how good you are, 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:08.280 you're a liability. And Kaepernick wasn't that good. Pebel didn't 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.119 want him. Oh but then he turned into a social 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:15.879 justice hero and now he's a major Nike figure and 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.200 there's all these campaigns out there for millions and millions 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:26.800 more dollars because of essentially his agitation. No policy has 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:30.119 changed because of Kaepernick. Then nothing, There's been no benefit 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.719 of what Kaepernick has done. Oh, he started a conversation 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:36.359 on race we have conversations on race all the time. 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:38.080 I mean, that was one of the one of the 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:42.080 most insane things of many things that Attorney General Eric 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:44.119 Holder back in the Obama day said was, you know, 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:45.919 we're cowards when it comes to race. We don't have 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.280 talks about race. The left wants to talk about race 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:52.120 pretty much all day, all the time. If you turn 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:57.200 on MSNBC or CNN. Other than the Russia collusion delusion, 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:02.600 their favorite thing to talk about is race number one. 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:07.560 And I was a contributor at CNN. I knows I 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:11.600 come to you, I come to you with with with 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:15.879 stories of abuse and gas lighting and all kinds of 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:19.879 stuff from being over there. But I remember when the 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:24.400 Black Lives Matter movement based on Mike Brown and all 0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:27.960 that that was really a that was the biggest news 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.560 story in the country. They were running stories on it 0:25:30.600 --> 0:25:32.600 all the time, and they couldn't get enough of it 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:36.880 because they thought their audience couldn't get enough of it. Meanwhile, 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:39.240 the fact that Mike Brown attacked a cop and got 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:42.720 shot after he you know, robbed a store a few 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.639 minutes before. I mean, the guy, the guys who the 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:49.000 guy is a thug is apparently know how to say that. 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:51.560 That's not they don't like even though thugs come from 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:56.000