John Derbyshire: “Nicholas Stix is a First-Class Journalist Who Would Have been a Household Name Back in the Days When Mainstream Journalism Meant Something More than Just Parroting the CultMarx Narrative….Steve [Sailer] and I were too cautious and Nicholas Stix’s journalistic instincts were correct: This was an obvious hoax from the start.”

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

John wrote those words on February 22, 2019, regarding my response to the Jussie Smollett Hate Hoax. He argued that we live in “an Empire of Lies.”

“VDARE.com’s Nicholas Stix—who, by the way, should you get the chance to meet him in one of our clandestine gatherings down in the catacombs, is a first-class journalist who would have been a household name back in the days when mainstream journalism meant something more than just parroting the CultMarx narrative—Nicholas Stix called hoax on January 29th, the very day it was first reported.

“Steve Sailer expressed a guarded skepticism the following day:

“This one is so absurd-sounding… that I’m wondering if it might not be true.

“As Steve went on to point out, Smollett’s tale apparently didn’t sound at all absurd to Bigfoot media commentators and Democratic Presidential candidates. They swallowed it whole.

In my chosen lifetime mission as Sailer's Bulldog, I took a similar line in the February 1st Radio Derb:

I’ll allow… that it might have happened, probability in the range two to five percent.

Steve and I were too cautious and Nicholas Stix’s journalistic instincts were correct: This was an obvious hoax from the start.

Cautious as Steve and I were, though, with our credence down at that two-to-five-percent level, we at least weren’t all-in gullible, like the fools who populate our Big Media outlets and political campaigns.

For them it’s Narrative, Narrative, Narrative. Facts, probabilities, and precedents [The list of bogus ‘hate crimes’ in Trump era is long, by Tamar Lapin, NYPost, February 21, 2019] count for nothing.