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The Media's Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse
Substack ^ | 17 Nov, 2021 | Bari Weiss

Posted on 11/18/2021 5:25:35 AM PST by MtnClimber

Why so many got this story so wrong.

Here is what I thought was true about Kyle Rittenhouse during the last days of August 2020 based on mainstream media accounts: The 17-year-old was a racist vigilante. I thought he drove across state lines, to Kenosha, Wisc., with an illegally acquired semi-automatic rifle to a town to which he had no connection. I thought he went there because he knew there were Black Lives Matter protests and he wanted to start a fight. And I thought that by the end of the evening of August 25, 2020, he had done just that, killing two peaceful protestors and injuring a third.

It turns out that account was mostly wrong.

Unless you’re a regular reader of independent reporting — Jacob Siegel of Tablet Magazine and Jesse Singal stand out for being ahead of the pack (and pilloried, like clockwork, for not going along with the herd) — you would have been served a pack of lies about what happened during those terrible days in Kenosha. And you would have been shocked over the past two weeks as the trial unfolded in Wisconsin as every core claim was undermined by the evidence of what actually happened that night.

This wasn’t a disinformation campaign waged by Reddit trolls or anonymous Twitter accounts. It was one pushed by the mainstream media and sitting members of Congress for the sake of an expedient political narrative—a narrative that asked people to believe, among other unrealities, that blocks of burning buildings somehow constituted peaceful protests.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; communism; corporatemedia; corruptmedia; drivebymedia; enemedia; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; media; mediabias; msm; rittenhouse; rittenhouseacquittal
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1 posted on 11/18/2021 5:25:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Lying for the cause is not considered lying for marxists and islamists. Just something to keep in mind when you hear them say anything.


2 posted on 11/18/2021 5:26:17 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

most on the left also believed the victims were black, when in fact they were all white.


3 posted on 11/18/2021 5:27:08 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MtnClimber

These days, I treat the MSM like a malfunctioning meter. I almost always assume their are wrong. In nearly every story I read/watch, I look for the spin. It is usually there is some form.


4 posted on 11/18/2021 5:28:03 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: MtnClimber

The media didn’t get it wrong, they have their own truth and that’s what they report. The media isn’t interested about facts, they are leftist activist to the core. Expecting more is not ever gonna happen.


5 posted on 11/18/2021 5:29:04 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

most on the left also believed the victims were black, when in fact they were all white.


To the MSM, they are all heroes of the revolution. So honorary blacks, not matter what their actual color.


6 posted on 11/18/2021 5:29:31 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: MtnClimber

Nick Sanddman’s lawyers...please pick up the white courtesy phone

Nick Sanddman’s lawyers...please pick up the white courtesy phone


7 posted on 11/18/2021 5:34:12 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: MtnClimber
It turns out that account was mostly wrong.

The account was mostly wrong, because those woke POSs deliberately set out to be wrong, to deliberately deceive the masses. Ain’t a dang one of those skanks, has a single milligram of integrity, among the whole lot of them.

8 posted on 11/18/2021 5:36:38 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: rbg81
I treat the MSM like a malfunctioning meter.

If you automatically assume, everything these people are saying, is a lie, that’s a good way to start. 👍

9 posted on 11/18/2021 5:40:36 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: rbg81

within days of the incident complete step by step video of everything that happened was available on the net which clearly show 100% it was self defense


10 posted on 11/18/2021 5:40:51 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: rbg81
To the MSM, they are all heroes of the revolution. So honorary blacks, not matter what their actual color.

Exactly.

The prosecutors called the people who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse "brave" and heroic.

It is all about sending the message: you have no right to defend yourself. You must "take a beating".

11 posted on 11/18/2021 5:41:03 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Mark17

If you automatically assume, everything these people are saying, is a lie, that’s a good way to start.


I definitely do that with the National level media. However, local media (especially TV news) seems to be far more trustworthy. At least where I live.


12 posted on 11/18/2021 5:50:19 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I found that particularly baffling. I didn’t realize there were that many people who don’t know that fundamental fact of the race of the victims.

It doesn’t change anything from the perspective of conservatives, but means EVERYTHING from the perspective of the Left.


13 posted on 11/18/2021 5:56:06 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: Mark17

That is precisely why I stopped watching them decades ago.


14 posted on 11/18/2021 5:57:44 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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That is precisely why I stopped watching them decades ago.

Yep, decades ago.

15 posted on 11/18/2021 6:09:05 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: 1Old Pro

This all makes me wonder how long the media has lied and made up stories. Was the reporting on Nixon the truth? Were stories about WW1 and 2 even true? How about Viet Nam? On and on, has the media been fake news all these decades? I don’t trust any news anymore.


16 posted on 11/18/2021 6:10:48 AM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: MtnClimber
The Media's Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse

This trial of Kyle Rittenhouse should be a Mistrial plain and simple.

We know that most folks are so P.O.ed at our media and they have just given up since this news gets them so bent out of shape.

I have followed this trial and it is a Mistrial plain and simple and the judge should have just thrown out this case against Kyle Rittenhouse.

BLM and Antifa have not even lifted a finger to re-do the Businesses and property and they have literally burned to the ground, they rioted throughout the streets of Kenosha, they looted across Kenosha, they damaged private property.

Why don't we put up the leadership of BLM and Antifa up for trial???

17 posted on 11/18/2021 6:17:13 AM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

victims?


18 posted on 11/18/2021 6:18:17 AM PST by Do_Tar
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To: JoJo354
has the media been fake news all these decades?

Yes, the media has always had a liberal bias. They have recently moved into full time unabashed leftwing activism mode.

19 posted on 11/18/2021 6:19:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Just yesterday, a neighbor insisted Rittenhouse killed 3 blacks.


20 posted on 11/18/2021 6:30:05 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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