We’ve seen a lot of bad media takes when it comes to the Rittenhouse case but we can always count on CNN to deliver some more.
The segment featuring John Berman and Brianna Keilar is another.
CNN’s @brikeilarcnn & @donlemon: Kyle Rittenhouse trying to maintain order in Kenosha is “vigilantism”
“We’re not supposed to be vigilantes. We’re not supposed to taking justice into our own hands. Think about what it would look like if everyone in America could do that. pic.twitter.com/yCJdUTGDVK
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 12, 2021
Keilar talks about “white vigilantism” and compares the Rittenhouse case to the Ahmaud Arbery case.
This is offensive since Rittenhouse’s case does not have anything to do race-wise and has no connection to the Ahmaud Abery case. Keilar’s inability to comprehend the facts and talk about vigilantism by comparing them is evident.
But what is the big offense that Kyle Rittenhouse committed in the left’s mind besides shooting people? It’s that he dared to help people defend their property.
Listen as Lemon tells you it’s wrong to want to defend your property, your street, or your town. That’s the “ultimate entitlement,” he calls it.
Um, Don? You have the right to protect yourself, your property and others. It’s a basic part of our law. It’s sad that CNN doesn’t seem to understand that and is arguing against that. It has nothing to do with racism and it’s right that everyone, of all races, has. That doesn’t mean you have a right to hunt people down. This does not mean you can’t defend yourself if somebody attacks you. Kyle Rittenhouse used that right. That’s not vigilantism.
I’m glad that Don Lemon thinks people should be calling the police. Of course, if you defund them, then you wouldn’t be able to call them, would you?
These poor Kenosha residents were forced to defend themselves. It was because there was a break in law and order due to the looting and rioting of Kenosha by radical leftists from BLM/Antifa, which wasn’t called out by Democrats or liberal media. CNN was not concerned about this. CNN did indeed minimize the threats to people and businesses that were being made at the time.
You cannot make this up… A CNN reporter is standing in front of a building engulfed in flames and CNN’s chyron reads:
“FIERY but MOSTLY PEACEFUL TESTS AFTER POLICICE SHOOTING” pic.twitter.com/4OHvKnh63u
— Kelb Hull (@CalebJHull) August 27, 2020
They’re more upset about the citizens having a right to defend themselves from attack than they are about the fact that the citizens were under attack.
Now, I don’t think for a minute think that Anthony Huber or Gaige Grosskreutz were chasing Kyle Rittenhouse because they were just concerned he was an active shooter. But let’s go with that argument for just a second. Then they were the vigilantes of whom Lemon speaks — they’re the ones chasing Rittenhouse, not knowing the real facts of his encounter with Joseph Rosenbaum. They’re the ones who should have left that action to the police. Had they done so, we wouldn’t be talking about this today. They wouldn’t have been shot.
Where’s the criticism from CNN for those actions? Or was that “mostly peaceful” vigilantism?
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