Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "The Jussie Smollett Hoax Has Left A Concerning Legacy" video.

  1. It's often hard to tell the difference between maliciously dishonest journalism and just plain bad journalism, but that's why the population is supposed to hold journalists to a standard. Everyone is wrong sometimes, but as a journalist, you have an obligation to your own career to get things right. Airing these half baked stories that always end up to be untrue should be a very, very bad mark on their reputation, because they didn't double check their sources. But it's not, because our population is lazy. We just allow them to continually lie to us.
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  2. They have the memory and attention span of a turtle with a head injury.
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  3. Yep, false accusations should carry the same penalty as the crime that's being accused.
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  4. I can't even imagine being so stupid I base my political beliefs on proven lies and hoaxes. These people are genuinely not well. And they know it's lies too, they don't care. In their mind Trump is so bad it's ok to lie about him, they're not smart enough to understand that if he was really that bad, they wouldn't have to lie about him.
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  5. There's another one developing as we speak, a statue of Jackie Robinson was cut down and stolen last week, and later recovered in a trash can, burned. I would bet my life savings that it's another hoax, and authorities know it's a hoax. If it wasn't, it would be all over CNN 24/7.
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  6. You can always tell it's bogus immediately, I got an alert on my ESPN app the other day that a statue of Jackie Robinson was defaced and stolen in Wichita, and that it was being investigated as a "hate crime". I laughed out loud and showed my wife, I said watch, this story is gonna disappear because it's probably a hoax. I haven't heard anything in the last few days, so it sounds like I was right.
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