that s the growing epidemic that don leman and chris cuomo were just telling you about, they are lying. it s a fraud. hate hoaxes by contrast are common. the media spends a lot of time denying that which is your first tip that it s real. the new york times wrote a headline that began hate crime hoaxes are rare. rolling stones most famous story ever was a hoax assures us that false reports of hate crimes are exceedingly rare. all the rest of the newsroom lemmings nod their heads in agreement, don t believe your eyes, this stuff never happens. it does happen, it happens regularly. the higher the profile the hate crime, the more likely it is to be fake. those racist messages at the air force academy, the general began an anguished response that seemed sincere and it went viral. the fake victims did it to themselves. how about those three university
story after story claiming that thousands of these atrocities take place every year in our country and the incidence of them is rising, a story in bise news yesterday claimed that in 2017, there were 7,175 hate crimes in america. reporters almost never do their own statistical analysis for stories like this, they tend to be bad at math. that s why they are journalists in the first place and not in private equity making real money. they take their numbers from holy fraudulent organizations like the southern poverty law center. these groups use moral panics to gin up fund-raising, they get rich doing it so they continue. the problem is there aren t that many hate crimes occurring in the country, it s just not a very hateful place so they have to make them up. how do they do that? they do it, and this is key, by counting accusations as crimes. an accusation is not the same thing as a crime, it s not even
of albany students who were attacked by a white supremacist on the bus years ago. hillary clinton weighed in, it turns out the three students were the dangerous ones themselves. they attacked a woman and invented a hoax to cover their tracks. threats to jewish community centers were a huge story in 2017, the press suggested they were the work of some deranged anti-semitic trump supporters assuming that s not redundant in the view of the press. once again, totally fake, an israeli teenager did it. in the space of a single month in november 2016 there were at least 13 well-publicized hate crimes that turned out to be hoaxes. that was also the month that trump got elected which tells you what s going on here, hate hoaxes are politically useful. we can go on about this, starting with the covington story last month. there are lots and lots of examples. hate hoaxes are so common and
who do we believe out of these two suspect people? tucker: was at the racist conspiracy from the chicago police department? that s a little far even for a lot of people on cable news. those people say that yes, perhaps jussie smollett s claims weren t entirely factually true but so what? they could have been. actual trump supporters may not have assaulted them on the street in chicago but they would have it if they could have. if it is true, didn t he in fact attempt to paint maga supporters as these racist and homophobic people? i have to disagree, i think maga supporters have painted themselves as that. we have to be bold enough to call that out. tucker: this is the new official story, the one you are going to be hearing for a long time, the one your kids will be learning about in school and it s this. a specific hate crime may not
he reportedly is dating a 39-year-old woman, he s facing misdemeanor charges that normally do not carry jail time. tucker: thank you. not every one buys the official story, in the newsroom of barstool sports its founder dave portnoy stood on a water cooler to deliver rousing speech in mr. kraft s defense. if you don t buy the official count of this at all. he categorically denied it as we just saw. i think it s unfortunate the way he s making headlines in the police named his name. the story is about the trafficking if that s what s going on. walking into a day spa for a massage is not a story, i roughly guess 70-80% males do, i have been in a massage parlor, i don t think it s a crime the way they re talking about it. they are dragging his name