This site is bullshit. They call anyone a troll if their opinions differ from theirs, even if they are doing it in a completely civilized way. 

yooooooooo

I got skewered for saying it sounded like shit. I’m a huge liberal, but fuck, if you ever go against the grain on these boards you get killed. 

Well of course you would never apologize to everyone on here you damned as a racist for finding the story a bit fishy.  You’ve demonstrated on here for years that you’re just a hateful little troll. Hate is all you’ve got in your life apparently.  

It turns out that every once in a while, someone can say something like, “It doesn’t make a lot of sense a random attack would seem so premeditated, and happening in the middle of the night and during the polar vortex,” and then NOT be a racist or homophobic.

Yes, for pete’s sake, he made it up. There are corroborating witnesses saying that he made it up.

Putting all faults of the Chicago PD aside, for what reason would they create a scenario, of which no evidence pointed to happening, and then frame the central person for whom this nothing happened?  What is even the plot…

No...that is ridiculous 

And I think it’s HILARIOUS that you’re still clinging to hope that it’s real.

Shut the fuck up you annoying douchebag. 

I’m black too. That’s why I laugh at sites like this. I wrote this the other day, but it’s just white people screaming at other white people for being white... and it’s all for this kinda sadistic need to make black people happy. Just use your head man. Take race out of it. Most people are good. Some people are bad.…

I have the moral high ground because I said let’s not turn this guy into a martyr for Trump era politics until more facts come out. The woke crowd said that was homophobic and he should be believed at face value, then then tried to silence anyone who said the story was fishy.  So yes,  I have the high ground over…

Raising an eyebrow at all these “but WHY would he do this? It doesn’t make any sense!”

Nailed it. Time to dial down the blustering outrage and focus on reporting stories without your personal politics invading every aspect. You perpetuate division and anger in the most ham-fisted emotionally driven way possible. In 2019 the A.V. Club is no better than a bunch of 15 year olds writing angrily in their…

The more details a lie contains, the easier it is to unravel.

Remember on the first several reports on this, all the Kinja turds were proudly crowing about how they’d kept most of the Smollet skeptics “in the greys”?

The only “clusterfuck” is the web sites like this that reported this shit as fact, even as it quickly wasn’t adding up... and as more details slowly leaked out anyone with any sense of objectivity could see what this was. But sites like yours, in the face of actual facts and beat reporters in Chicago, double and…

Way to give ammunition to the alt-right MAGA crowd and make it harder for legitimate victims of hate crimes to be believed, dumbfuck.

Speaking as a gay man, this is terrible and only harms the community. I can’t fathom what he was thinking if this is true.

THIS!

I may be misremembering, but my recollection is that the pre-O’Neal Newswires used to be pretty short and dry for the most part, like announcements of tour dates and new album releases.