MSNBC’s ReidOutJoy Reid, host Joy Reid, couldn’t contain her disgust Wednesday for Kyle Rittenhouse (Illinois teen), complaining that his Kenosha murder trial in Wisconsin was evidence of this hatred “why critical race theory exists” and it’s needed in America. He was also denigrated by her as George Zimmerman. “using…cop speak” currying favor with an almost all-white jury and crying when it is the real “names” Honorable mention goes to those who he has shot.
Paul Butler, MSNBC’s legal analyst, complained that he had given too much. “the greatest performance of [his] life” in tandem with a biased judge to create a trial that’s “white privilege on steroids.”
Then, a little bit of kvetching. “what in the world is going on with the judge,” Reid flexed a heavy dose of race-hustling (click “expand”):
If you want to know why critical race theory exists — the actual law school theory that emphasizes that supposedly colorblind laws in America often still have racially discriminatory outcomes, then look no further than the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. Today, Rittenhouse, the teenage accused in the murders of two Wisconsin men last year and the wounding of another, stood in his own defense. The circumstances almost seem like they would be suitable for a CRT course. With the exception of one man of color, the 18-year old white suspect is facing an almost all-white jury made up of peers.
Bruce Schroeder is the judge who barred Rittenhouse’s prosecution from calling Rittenhouse’s victims. He’s barred the prosecution from introducing evidence of Rittenhouse posing with the Proud Boys while flashing white supremacists signs and denying the prosecution’s request to increase Rittenhouse’s bail after he failed to notify the court of his changed address, which he was required to do. The prosecution was repeatedly held back by the judge, but he has prevailed at every opportunity. Rittenhouse today stepped in to all this, giving his innocence and sweetest smile while telling the jury about the time he shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum using a semiautomatic rifle.
She showed a video of the teenager having a panic attack and breaking down. incredulously starredAfter you have finished, turn the camera on.
Butler suggested the trial could be compared to that of Zimmerman. Rittenhouse, however, said Butler that he worked closely with his legal staff to ensure that he performed in a way that was acceptable to both parties. “disrupt his image as a trigger happy vigilante who went on a shooting spree” (click “expand”):
REID: Paul. It felt like flashbacks of the George Zimmerman case. I mean, everything from Kyle Rittenhouse using sort of cop speak about trying to stop the threat, saying this sort of really dramatic thing the person he shot supposedly said that sounded like a gangster movie, you know, and then this whole thing of, you know, the whole breaking down and dry heaving in court — that was one thing we didn’t see from Zimmerman but making himself the victim and sort of making himself seem more innocent, which Zimmerman trial also featured. And the judge was sort of almost — like it was his dad. Like, you know, I don’t think I’ve ever — I mean, since the Zimmerman trial, I haven’t seen anything like it, but it seems very similar to me. Did you ever see anything like it?
BUTLER: Joy today saw the most impressive performance by Kyle Rittenhouse. His defense lawyers had prepared him to discredit his reputation as a trigger-happy vigilante who attacked a Black Lives Matter demonstration. His conduct on the stand was professional and deliberate. Rittenhouse’s emotional outburst might have been perceived by the jury to be a sincere expression of regret or crocodile tears intended to provoke sympathy. Rittenhouse avoided most of those risks by taking the stand with the guidance of the judge. He likely presented his defense before the jury.
Continuing the pity party (and proof that Rittenhouse excelled on the jury stand), Reid questioned the trial’s legitimacy by saying “the defense has managed to construct the jury that could be his uncles and aunts and his parents, right, where they can look at him and see perhaps their own son and that was what felt like his testimony was designed to do today, to take away all of the stuff about him throwing the white power sign and posing with the Proud Boys[.]”
Following Butler’s claim that Schroeder was “steering the jury towards an acquittal” while “conservatives…have made Rittenhouse a martyr,” the pair ended on a tangent about how Rittenhouse wanting to buy an AR-15 was something that would have ended poorly for anyone who isn’t white.
Rittenhouse, after being asked why he picked an AR-15 by Kenosha assistant District Attorney Paul Binger, was so disgruntled that Butler called him “white privilege on steroids” and suggested he would have been mutilated by police bullets on the spot if he wasn’t white.
Going to break, Reid reiterated the need for CRT (even though she and her colleagues have insisted it isn’t real) and read aloud the names of the three Rittenhouse shot because they need to be “remember[ed]”You can find this link:
I will just briefly remind you of the names and addresses of the victims. Joseph Rosenbaum was 36. Anthony Huber, 26, was Gaige Grosskreutz was only 27. These are the victims. These are the people that people ought to remember — are the people who were hurt here, not the person who was crying on the stand today.
Of course, Reid ignored Rosenbaum’s history as a pedophile.
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You can view the MSNBC transcript of November 10 by clicking here.
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