Live from Music Row Friday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CARMICHAEL CONTINUED:
Michael, I haven’t been the case itself, but I have been watching the Smollett case in Chicago. And there’s something that just kind of hits me as you see the reports on the case. And then you go back to the Rittenhouse case. You go to the Aubrey case and you go to the flash mobs that we talked about earlier and you talked about the protest. They’re all on video.
Every single thing we’re talking about is on video. And it’s a fascinating thing to me that the left can see a video that people can see exactly the same thing and believe that and conclude the opposite of what they’re looking at. Now, in the case of Smollett, where a person is innocent until proven guilty, and we’re getting to the threshold where it seems that the proof is there.
I think Smollett is really counting on the jury in Chicago to just let him off. But it’s fascinating how the media has treated it because you have these two black men from Nigeria. I believe they’re from Nigeria. They’re first-generation immigrants.
A first-generation black immigrant you think would have a higher standing on the left than a rich actor who happens to be both black and gay. But the key thing is, he’s a very rich actor. But it is the two black immigrant Nigerians that the press says are not to be believed in the face of all of the video evidence and physical evidence to the contrary.
Apparently, they have even the receipts and the video cams of these two people shopping for the list of things that were used in the hoax. What I believe to be a hoax. And then just the premise of it to begin with where it was, I got mugged at 2:00 a.m. when I went out for a Subway by two white guys in Chicago wearing MAGA hats, claiming this is MAGA country in downtown Chicago.
They’re two funnier places, three for that, but just barely funny would be San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C., yelling, this is MAGA country. And it was also, I think, 20 or 30 degrees below zero. So anyway, it’s that trial, but it’s on video. It’s the proof.
Then you had the Rittenhouse trial, and then you had the Aubrey trial, and then all these flash mobs and everything else. So we, as the public are getting to see what’s happening.
And then the news reports something that we didn’t see and they apparently don’t understand how they’re losing their credibility. It’s just kind of a Kafkaesque kind of a fascinating thing to watch it. And the Smollett trial kind of captures all of it in one trial.
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Photo “Jussie Smollett” by Sister Circle Live. CC BY 3.0.
