This *has* to be true. They have a video of people who knew Smollett buying the implements used in the attack. There is no longer any possibility of Smollett’s version of events to be true. He’s definitively lying! You might as well be agnostic about gravity. 

Nahhh. There is NO good excuse for doing something like this, which re-victimizes real victims by making it just that much harder for them to be taken seriously. If he did this, he is a bad human. 

That’s asking for more than they can give.

Maybe if the left media wasnt so blinded by their rage against Trump they could actually be useful. 

They already got the phone logs from the provider company. That’s how they found out about the 2 Nigerian brothers. They were the people Jussie called and was redacted from the logs he turned in.

It’s a pretty simple question... if you stopped posting about the NFL how much would that impact Deadspin revenue? I’m willing to bet it’s over a fifth of your revenue.

I feel like there’s a slight of hand you’re indulging in regarding the difference between the NBC gig and the Deadspin gig - you’re right that Deadspin (though it does sell ads on its football coverage) doesn’t directly pay and partner with the NFL. That’s like the x axis of the difference. But the y axis is *risk to…

How would your ad revenue be impacted if you didn't post at all about the NFL?

I trust that Deadspin will now stop running any articles on NFL games, in light of your proclaimed policy of purity.

Yeah? So? Normally I’m not one to defend sportscasters, as they are a blight on those of us who come for the sports and not the commentary, but Deadspin calling someone out for wanting anything both ways is the kettle being called black by a collapsed star. Your own writers are on a crusade to confront the NFL on its…

Kaepernick had NFL offers and turned them down. He even had an offer to play in the AAF, and he turned that one down as well. He has never had any intention of playing. Chasing that easy $$$.

Devil’s advocate counterpoint: if that were the case, don’t you think Kaepernick would want that out there?

“In my experience”

Oh, okay, cool. 

Actually, they do have to pay for food, clothing, and various other every day expenses. It adds up, apparently. 

So it’s ok to be racist or sexually assault someone as long as you’re a Democrat? You can just admit you don’t have principles but you think that’s ok because the MAGA douches don’t either.

Definitely wrong that the guy did blackface back in 1980 however it sounds like it wasn’t out of any sort of maliciousness, most likely ignorance about how insulting it is.

The progressive habit of tearing people down the very second it’s revealed they failed to be completely and totally pure of thought and action for every waking second of their lives is simply going to lead to nowhere and benefit no one except bad actors.

Eh, call me old fashioned but this doesn’t bother me at all. You have to remember that wearing blackface as a Democrat is an entirely different thing than wearing blackface as a Republican. Not to mention, this was a very very long time ago.

He was actively looking for someone similar to the perpetrator to punish. The void Liam was trying to fill had nothing to do with race and everything to do with justice for his friend. I think we can all understand that.

So I think what’s being lost in this, and I’m not playing devil’s advocate here, is that this admission isn’t so much about race as it is the otherizing of assault perpetrators in an attempt to reinforce his own understanding of his identity. Liam wants to be a good person, and in order to maintain that goodness he…