After Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted for self-defense in the death of two men who attacked him during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the one thing that was guaranteed to outrage the liberal media mob was Rittenhouse doing a “victory lap” on Tucker Carlson’s top-rated Fox show.
CNN’s pretentiously superior Oliver Darcy was revolted by Carlson’s praise: “Kyle Rittenhouse struck us as bright, decent, sincere, dutiful, and hardworking.” The Fox host added he’s “exactly the kind of person you would want many more of in your country. He’s not especially political. He never wanted to be the symbol of anything.”
Rittenhouse has become a symbol of both political parties. He should know by now that you can’t take sides in a riot and say you’re not especially political. Rittenhouse was elevated into a national story because the Left wanted to insist that the real criminals in Kenosha weren’t the rioters. They don’t want the boy to be lionized, but they’re allergic to seeing leftist rioters being villainized.
The liberal media were looking for a story and a symbol that would underline their narrative of America being torn apart by Trumpism, racism, and rioting – or in this case, the attempts to curtail the rioting.
Darcy channeled the left-wing view that conservative media were elevating Rittenhouse into a “role model” for teenage vigilantes to emulate. “Not only are people like Carlson excusing the general concept of vigilante justice, they are actively encouraging it.”
It’s true that some people tried to create a bandwagon around the acquittal, insisting they’d like Rittenhouse to be an intern in their congressional office, or offering him a free AR-15 to celebrate. He’s not a “hero.” He’s just a boy who defended himself in a frightening and violent situation
His heart was certainly in the right place, even if I wouldn’t want my son in that danger zone. But the media rail against “vigilantes,” and aren’t fans of the police, either. Darcy, the others seem to encourage unchecked violence and disorder ….as it promotes the right political and racial cause. A “racial reckoning” is when your furniture shop is set on fire.
Rittenhouse wasn’t wrong to call out the media for repeatedly mangling the facts of his case. “He crossed state borders. False. He is a white supremacist. False. False. They can spread lies all they want. It is sickening. And it’s a disgrace to this country.”
Some people won’t give up on an inexcusably wrong story. On MSNBC’s Reidout after the verdict came out, Joy Reid declared the lesson was “if I’m walking around and I’m a white nationalist coward little kid with an AR-15 and I see someone drive by with a Black Lives Matter bumper sticker and I feel threatened, I can open fire.” Jason Johnson imagined that Rittenhouse shot the two rioters because they were “race traitors” that “stood against the core conceit of white supremacy, that straight white men have dominion over everything, especially black bodies.”
The official post-verdict statement by Black Lives Matter cried conspiracy theory: “It was a set up from the beginning. The police, the judge, the court, mainstream media, and every single system involved all wrapped their arms around Kyle Rittenhouse from the very beginning.”
Anyone claiming the “mainstream media” were engaged in a long hug with Kyle Rittenhouse should be given a Breathlyzer test. Evidently, the Marxist BLM leaders weren’t able to pay attention to any news reporting because they were too busy counting their million.
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