• Home
  • News
  • Top Picks
    • Movies & Films: Top 25
    • Documentaries: Top 25
    • Films For Students: Top 10
    • Music Videos: Top 10
  • Categories
    • Film
    • Documentary
    • Shorts
    • Blog
    • Calendar
    • Links
    • About

Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World

Libertarian Movies, Films & Documentaries

Jussie Smollett Is A Victim, Act II

The strange case of actor Jussie Smollett has finally closed, but in the course of unraveling it served to expose something rather interesting: Jussie Smollett is remarkably well-connected for a B-actor getting small parts — to no less than the Obamas as well as ’60’s radical communist Angela Davis. It seems there is a little nest of leftists in power who people all know each other and are eager to come to the aid of the protégés they are grooming.

I present the events as a timeline for easier comprehension.

1980s-1990s | Jussie is raised in a household chummy with left-wing radicals
Per a 2016 NYT interview, which recently resurfaced: “’My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,’ Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader. ‘To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.’ [Angela Davis, a lifelong communist, was linked to a notorious kidnapping and murder of four.] ‘Their sense of justice is very strong, and it permeates everything that they do,’ said Alfre Woodard.”

1990s – 2010s | Smollett gets small parts in Hollywood, and eventual role on Empire
Per Wikipedia, Smollett got parts in the comedy/adventure North (1994), directed by Director and Democratic party activist Rob Reiner, as well as The Mighty Ducks (1992). In 2015, he scores a role on Empire.

2007 | Misdemeanor conviction for false name
Per Wikipedia, he gave a false name in a DUI case. “Smollett pleaded no contest to providing false information to law enforcement in a 2007 misdemeanor case resulting from a DUI stop in which Smollett gave police a false name and signed his brother’s name on the summons promising to appear in court. Smollett also pleaded no contest to driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit and driving without a valid driver’s license, and was sentenced to a fine and two years of probation.”

January, 2019 | Smollett claims to be victim of hate-crime committed by Trump supporters
Per Wikipedia, “Smollett told police that he was attacked outside his apartment building by two men in ski masks who called him racial and homophobic slurs, and said ‘This is MAGA country’, referencing President Donald Trump’s slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ and used their hands, feet, and teeth as weapons in the assault.” He attributed the attack to his heroic public criticism of the Trump administration.

February, 2019 | Smollett charged with filing a false report to police
Per the NYT, police investigation revealed the “attack” to have been acted out by two fellow actors from the Empire show. “Investigators were able to track two men who appeared on video footage not far from the scene that night. Using ride share data, they discovered the two were brothers who in fact knew Mr. Smollett. One had acted as an extra on Empire. The police initially identified the brothers as possible suspects in the attack, but then released them without filing any charges. The men told investigators that Mr. Smollett had coordinated a faux attack and paid them to participate in it.”

February, 2019 | Media do damage control for Smollett
The Hollywood Reporter asks: “one question is whether the pressures and anxieties of modern fame played any role in Smollett’s seemingly inexplicable behavior.” Meanwhile, Good Morning America gives Smollett a gushingly sympathetic interview, in which Smollett cries about his experience.

February, 2019 | Michelle Obama’s Chief of Staff consults with prosecutor
Per the Daily Caller, “Tina Tchen, who served as chief of staff to then-first lady Michelle Obama, claimed that she had reached out to the prosecutor because Smollett’s family had some concerns about the investigation.”

February, 2019 | Prosecutor says she is recusing herself from case
Per the the Chicago Sun-Times, “Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx recused herself from the Jussie Smollett investigation after facilitating conversations between Smollett’s family and the Chicago Police Department.”

March 2019 | All charges against Smollet inexplicably dropped
Per Wikipedia, all charges filed against Smollett were dropped, with Judge Steven Watkins ordering the public court file sealed. First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats said the office reached a deal with Smollett’s defense team in which prosecutors dropped the charges upon Smollett performing 16 hours of community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond.

March 2019 | Prosecutor says she didn’t recuse herself from case after all
Per CNN, “Although we used the term recuse as it relates to State’s Attorney Foxx’s involvement in this matter, it was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense, the office said in a statement.”

March 2019 | FBI announces investigation of why charges were dropped
Per Buzzfeed, “President Trump told reporters that he had directed federal officials to review the case. ‘I think the case in Chicago is an absolute embarrassment to our country. I have asked that they look at it,’ Trump said. ‘Somebody has to, at least, take a very good, hard look at it.'”

May 2019 | Michelle Obama’s Chief of Staff resisting subpoeana
Per the Chicago Sun-Times, “Tina Tchen, former chief of staff to former first lady Michelle Obama, stepped up her fight on Wednesday to quash a subpoena digging for information about her role in Jussie Smollett’s alleged fake hate crime case.”

May 2019 | Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx changes story as to why she recused herself
Per USA Today, “Chicago’s top prosecutor gave a new justification in documents released Friday for why she recused herself from the investigation into Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s claim he was the victim of a hate crime: there were false rumors she was related to Smollett and she didn’t want any hint of a conflict of interest.”

June 2019 | Google adjusts search results to protect Smollett
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Google seems to be adjusting its search mechanism to protect Smollett. “News that Chicago police charged Jussie Smollett with staging a brutal attack on himself was covered on every network and in every major newspaper, but Google is hiding searches of it from its platform due to concerns of ‘potentially disparaging’ the liberal actor.”

March 2022 | Smollett finally convicted
Per NBC, “Embattled actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months’ probation Thursday for falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019. ‘You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,’ Cook County Circuit Judge James Linn told Smollett while announcing the sentence in Chicago.” The Babylon Bee, in perhaps its greatest headline ever, reported: Cruel: Jussie Smollett Will Be Forced To Share A Jail Cell With His Attacker.

Meanwhile, in this brilliant re-editing of his ABC interview, Jussie Smollett finally tells the truth.

Comedian Dave Chappelle did a segment on Smollett in his Netflix special.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)

Related

Subscribe to our new Substack for updates!

Featured Post

police

How To Talk To Police: Four Instructional Films

Most people are afraid of the police, for two reasons. First, while the vast majority of cops are doing their job in the most fair-minded way they can, there are actual bad cops and it's very hard for even a well-managed police force to get rid of them. This is because police are almost always unionized … Continue Reading

pad man

Pad Man | Film Review

An heroic and independent entrepreneur creates a low-cost sanitary pad for the world’s poor, but must overcome cultural shame associated with menstruation to get his invention accepted. Based on a true story. [ Pad Man credits: Dir: R. Balki/ Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, Sonam Kapoor/ 140 min/ Biography, … Continue Reading

victimless crime spree

Derrick J’s Victimless Crime Spree (2012)

WINNER: TOP 25 LIBERTARIAN DOCUMENTARIES Libertarian activist Derrick J. Freeman chronicles his arrest and incarceration for five "crimes" -- videoing police, dancing in a public place, smoking cannabis, wearing a hat in court, and riding a bike -- in a civil disobedience spree that demonstrates just how … Continue Reading

Themes

Abuse of power American revolution Anti-draft Anti-regulation Anti-slavery Anti-socialism Anti-taxation Anti-war Ayn Rand Corrupt government Creator as hero Democide Econ 101 Eminent domain Equality & law Escape from socialism Freedom of speech Free press as hero Government as bigot Government as torturer Government enforced morality Government healthcare Government schools Incompetent government Individualism John Stossel Law & liberty Legalize Drugs Libertarian heroes Libertarianism 101 Power corrupts Power worship Pro-capitalism Pro-immigration Propaganda Psychiatric coercion Resistance to tyranny Right to secede Search & seizure Second amendment Sexual liberty Social tolerance Unions & monopolies Voluntarism Working for government

Genres/Categories

Action-Adventure Animated Biography Blog Comedy Documentary Drama Family Featured Film Foreign History Horror Music-Dance Netflix News Romance SciFi-Fantasy Shorts Thriller Upcoming Western

About Miss Liberty

This site is a collection of films and documentaries of particular interest to libertarians (and those interested in libertarianism). It began as a book, Miss Liberty’s Guide to Film: Movies for the Libertarian Millennium, where many of the recommended films were first reviewed. The current collection has grown to now more than double the number in that original list, and it’s growing still.

  • RSS

© 2023 Miss Liberty's Film & Documentary World. All Rights Reserved