http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/02/22/abcs-laughable-defense-no-regrets-no-one-feels-robin-got-duped
A key embarrassment of the Jussie Smollett hoax was the Robin Roberts interview on Good Morning America, where the extra-sympathetic host wouldn't even use the word "alleged," and asked the now-comical question "If the attackers are never found, how will you be able to heal?"
Now ABC staffers are going out to speak anonymously in defense of this Valentine's Day debacle. Several spoke to BuzzFeed News with the usual lame defenses, like "It was an interview everyone wanted."
Yes, it was. And Smollett picked Roberts because he expected - accurately - that it would be a unicorns-and-rainbows interview. Smollett also expected everyone else in the media to follow Robin's sappy example. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence