Account Deleted By User https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kass-20190219-story.html Headline: Politicians use Jussie Smollett, while a 1-year-old boy shot in the head is set aside  Something important has been lost in the embarrassing saga of Jussie Smollett, the tuna fish sandwich-loving actor and anti-Trump activist, and those muscular Nigerian brothers. And I suppose it’s easy to lose what’s important with all the panic and intersectional hatred and liberal identity politics gone bad in this Smollett story... What’s been lost is this: I’m told that two dozen detectives were assigned to the Smollett case. Can Chicago afford that, what with all the unsolved murders and shootings in this town?  No. There were some 18 people killed in Chicago after Smollett began telling his story in late January, that story in which he cast himself as the hero, about having to fight off pro-Trump racists...Even in Chicago, a city known for its unending violence and political corruption, assigning two dozen detectives seems a bit overdone. Smollett's story is he fought them off. Even though he had a cellphone in one hand, a tuna sandwich in the other.  Smollett must be a certified badass. His sandwich survived. But two dozen detectives for Smollett just doesn’t seem right. Make no mistake. I’m not blaming the detectives, or the Chicago Police Department. They work for a politician. His name is Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who famously announced a few years ago that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. When Smollett told his amazing story, about being a black gay man attacked by racist Trump supporters on one of the coldest nights of the year, the media was all over it. National politicians were all over it. They bought it without question. “This was an attempted modern-day lynching,” tweeted Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California. Bookend Leftist Sen. Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat, issued a similar tweet. CNN and many who earn their livings in the Washington-New York liberal media echo chamber rushed to judgment.  It was a perfect anti-Trump story. It fit the prevailing narrative of many in the media (who are themselves liberal Democrats) that Trump supporters are racist and just itching to find some minorities to beat up. [SADLY THIS SOUNDS ALL TOO FAMILIAR. Think Covington high school boys and a drum-beating Leftist activist. A DEMOCRAT RUSH TO JUDGEMENT that also ended in charges of A HOAX!] When the Leftists are BUSTED, the social justice warriors shrug and move on, looking for the next story with which to portray America as a hateful nation — not because the story has merit, but because it fits their politics!  But America isn’t a hateful nation. America is the least hateful nation, and the best hope of humankind on Earth. Ask the millions over the decades who have left hellholes to come here.