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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Lying for the cause is not considered lying for marxists and islamists. Just something to keep in mind when you hear them say anything.
most on the left also believed the victims were black, when in fact they were all white.
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.
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.
most on the left also believed the victims were black, when in fact they were all white.
Nick Sanddman’s lawyers...please pick up the white courtesy phone
Nick Sanddman’s lawyers...please pick up the white courtesy phone
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.
If you automatically assume, everything these people are saying, is a lie, that’s a good way to start. 👍
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
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".
If you automatically assume, everything these people are saying, is a lie, that’s a good way to start.
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.
That is precisely why I stopped watching them decades ago.
Yep, decades ago.
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.
victims?
Yes, the media has always had a liberal bias. They have recently moved into full time unabashed leftwing activism mode.
Just yesterday, a neighbor insisted Rittenhouse killed 3 blacks.
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