That was roughly the headline of a recent
article linked from Drudge.
The Jussie Smollett hate crime claim had red flags all over it. How someone could have failed to be skeptical is beyond me.
The truth of the case of the Covington high school students was there for everyone to see, but the media jumped on a decontextualized sixty seconds.
I don't think it's stupidity on their part. I think it's a matter of events confirming for them the way they think the world works. They actually think people with MAGA hats might actually be wandering around in subzero temperatures with nooses, and claiming that Chicago of all places was "MAGA country."
And in a sense, they want to believe.
They want to believe that their prejudices are justified. They want to believe that their opponents are moral reprobates. Every incident likes this confirms them in their sense of moral superiority.
This isn't the only area of life where people are tempted by preposterous claims.
I remember the old infomercials that said you could buy houses for pennies on the dollar and resell them for a fortune. There were so many of those.
People wanted to believe.
Same goes for earning a living, particularly online.
I tell people in Internet marketing: you can get to a point at which you can earn $X in only Y hours of work.
But it will take work to get there. Well worth it, of course, but yes, there will be work.
Yet some folks keep looking for that elusive way of making a living without putting in that initial work.
They need to believe that such a thing exists.
But if you're prepared to be real, and if you really want this, then my new friend Marlon Sanders is your man.
I told you on Tuesday: Marlon's "Click only if you have decided not to buy" link at the bottom of the page took me to something so brilliantly done that it instantly converted me into a buyer.
This is a guy I need to learn from, I knew instantly.
Marlon's been selling online for over 20 years -- and he's loved and respected by everyone, which is unheard of in this industry. He's chucked out all the stupid approaches and don't work and never worked, and laid out instead what the best plan of action is if you're serious about building up what we call FU money.
There's a countdown clock on the page, though, at the end of which the (low to the point of embarrassment) price jumps up.
(If the price has already jumped up by the time you click the link below, Marlon will have taken that brilliant "Click only if you have decided not to buy" link down, unfortunately.)
He's cranky (not a crank -- there's a difference), temperamental, and brilliant -- the exact guy you know in your heart you need:
Tom Woods
P.S. Even if the price has already jumped up, it's still worth it.