Posted on 03/24/2022 4:56:48 AM PDT by RandFan
Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted in November of homicide charges following a self-defense shooting, slammed the media Wednesday for lying about him and trying to put him in prison.
Rittenhouse fatally shot two men in self-defense during an August 2020 riot in Kenosha, Wisc. The media claimed he was a white supremacist and a murderer, despite the lack of evidence.
"I'm angry that the media thinks they can get away with lying," Rittenhouse told "Just the News, Not Noise" cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head.
"[L]ike Malcolm X said: 'The media is the most powerful entity on the planet. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty, innocent.' And they tried to do that to me. They lied, and they almost put me in prison the rest of my life. Thank God the jury didn't buy into the false narratives."
Rittenhouse has launched The Media Accountability Project, which is a fundraising effort to help him cover legal costs in his lawsuits against media companies who defamed him.
"The Media Accountability Project consists of two parts," he said. "And Part A is to hold the media accountable and make them pay for what they did."
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Yep, the media can also influence elections. I think the best approach is for people to pool their money to fund conservative media startups, social media, news, etc. Competition is what we need.
AMEN
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