That doesn’t make sense. If young Sunny opposed the Not Guilty verdict, why did she vote for it? (The chair?) If she wasn’t the hold-out juror, why would she horrify her colleagues now by saying she fought to save a cannibal from his just…desserts? Yet the evidence is mounting that Sunny was grandstanding and lying to boot.
According to the Associated Press, Newsday, that New York Daily News clip and other sources, multiple jurors from the 1991 trial have said the real holdout was an unemployed man who wanted to extend deliberations to keep receiving a $15 daily stipend and three free meals from the court. Hostin told Newsday in 1991, “We had to compromise. But it is obvious to me [Rakowitz ] butchered the body and he literally got away with murder. He attempted to commit the perfect crime.” She also told the New York Times the jury did not believe Rakowitz intended to kill the victim but dismembered the body to hide the crime.
So far, Hostin being Hostin and caught red-tongued (again) is adopting the Clinton strategy: “Deny, deny, deny.” “I was the holdout juror,” she still says. Perhaps she’s counting on the likelihood that if you are weak-minded enough to be a fan of her disgraceful show, then you might buy her fabrication. To the people demanding that she be fired for this lie: why is the latest nonsense any more upsetting than her saying, for example, that earthquakes and eclipses prove climate change? Yes, she has no business being on television. Neither do her cast-mates. Neither does the program.
I’ve also been asked whether such a flagrant whopper on national TV could justify bar punishment. I’d say it should, but it won’t. Usually lies, even blatant lies, by lawyers when they aren’t practicing law won’t rouse bar associations out of their typical torpor. And all Sunny has to say if she is cornered is “I guess I mis-remmembered! Oopsie!”
So she co-opted a classic movie theme in an act of narcissistic self aggrandizement and thought no one would notice that her pants are on fire? Wow
If that day is the winter solstice. In Utqiagvik.
“If that day is the winter solstice. In Utqiagvik.”
Heh!
PWS
This must be terrible women from the University of Notre Dame week. Mrs. Jones and now Mrs. Hostin. Yuck. How’s that DEI student body thing workin’ out there, Fathers of the Holy Cross?
Gotta love the expression on defense counsel’s face in the photo above. He’s got to be thinking a la Hyman Roth, “This is the life I’ve chosen.”
A good excuse for…um…misremembering…is blaming PTSD…like, you know, from landing under SNIPER FIRE
PWS
Correct. It’s a tactic of the Left to reframe personal anecdotes to fit a desired narrative.
Michelle Obama can make a trip to Target about helping people or about racism as needed.
LBJ milked that ubiquitous Silver Star for all it was worth while making people think he was a war hero. It must have sucked a part of MacArthur’s soul to give one of those to a congressman who went on a bombing mission that turned back due to mechanical failure after the flight he missed because he was in the bathroom got shot down.
Mr. Hostin hadn’t transitioned yet…?
Excuse me good sir, but I think your bias is blinding your analysis again.
Sonny Hostin was the “unemployed man”.
See? Now it makes perfect sense.
The poster child for ‘Main Character Syndrome’ goes to…
So what happened to the Manson look alike and the Dahmer wanta be?
“I admit to being biased against anyone so reflexively woke that they immediately adopt the latest politically correct lingo, especially one as stupid as “unhoused.” A house is not necessarily a home until one makes its so.
We should challenge the use of the word unhoused. The use suggests non-ownership rights of shelter whereas the term “homeless” implies the idea that one has lost a claim or never had a claim of ownership rights to some shelter property.
The left likes to introduce new language that over time blur the lines of understanding. When someone uses that term simply ask them to house them in their home. the difference in terms will become quickly apparent the supposed “unhoused” do not even have squatters rights to another’s residence which is their home simply by moving in after the owners have left for work.