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With Empire actor and apparent hoaxer Jussie Smollett now formally charged with allegedly fabricating a hate crime, many are calling out the liberal media for falling for it because the accusations fit their anti-Trump narrative. During a Thursday appearance on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti called out the media for often holding water for liberals and against Republicans.
“We’re nowhere good,” Continetti answered when anchor Bret Baier asked about where we were after this apparent hoax.
He followed up by noting that “the same people who rushed to embrace Smollett’s faux story were the same people who rushed to criticize the Covington Catholic boys when that snippet of viral video came out from the pro-life movement march in D.C.”
“What is the connective tissue,” Continetti rhetorically asked. “It is a willingness to believe the worst of Donald Trump and his supporters. And that’s why people rushed to back Smollett. That's why they rushed to condemn the Covington Catholic boys.”
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