As expected, leftists have erupted in spitting, sputtering fury because a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse.
The famous and not-so-famous all think Rittenhouse should have gone to jail for life for defending himself against four communist criminals during the Blake riots last year. They were riots, by the way, that Antifa and Black Lives Matters street thugs began after a police officer shot sex-assault fugitive Jacob Blake, who pulled a knife and resisted arrest. Kenosha’s top prosecutor ruled the shooting justified, and the Department of Justice refused to prosecute the cop as well.
Some leftists are enraged because the media lied about Rittenhouse and they didn’t watch the trial. They know nothing about the case. Others know the truth. But they demanded a guilty verdict because they will not tolerate resistance to the communist mobs that have burned and looted American cities for almost two years.
Flat-out Lies
You’d think MSNBC would stop lying about Rittenhouse now that the verdict is in, despite the leftist network’s lying about him for the last 15 months. No such luck.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid actually compared Rittenhouse to a slave catcher. American law, she falsely claimed, is designed to permit white men to “inflict violence in the name of protecting property” and get away with it. How much violence Reid would inflict to protect her home from a burglar we are not given to know.
“Rittenhouse, who is white, was 17 when he traveled from his hometown in northeast Illinois to the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year armed with his semi-automatic rifle,” Ja’han Jones wrote for MSNBC’s Reidblog.
Also false. Rittenhouse did not take the rifle from home. It was in Wisconsin. But that isn’t the only falsehood in Jones’s lachrymose lament. He lied by omission by not telling readers that the two men Rittenhouse killed, and the third he wounded, attacked him. But Jones’s claims are typical of the media in general. They routinely retailed lies about Rittenhouse.
But on to leftist politicians, and the lies they are telling.
“America today: you can break the law, carry around weapons built for a military, shoot and kill people, and get away with it,” failed California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted. “That’s the message we’ve just sent to armed vigilantes across the nation.”
Rittenhouse is not a “vigilante,” although Newsom is a left-wing extremist.
Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, is beside himself.
“Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims,” the leftist crackpot tweeted:
They should be alive today.
The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.
To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement.
Wrong again. Rittenhouse did not take the “gun across state lines.” And not surprisingly, like the leftist media, de Blasio didn’t bother describing the “victims”: boy rapist Rosenbaum, convicted strangler Huber, longtime criminal Gaige Grosskreutz, and professional convict Jump Kick Man.
Representative Jerry Nadler of New York wants the Department of Justice to prosecute Rittenhouse.
“This heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ,” he tweeted:
Justice cannot tolerate armed persons crossing state lines looking for trouble while people engage in First Amendment-protected protest.
Count two more lies. Rittenhouse wasn’t “looking for trouble,” and what occurred in Kenosha wasn’t a protest. It was a full-blown riot that left businesses in flames and property destroyed. State and local officials did nothing to stop it. Governor Tony Evers encouraged it.
“Dangerous, disgusting, unacceptable white supremacy in #RittenhouseVerdict,” Maryland’s cell of the communist-founded American Civil Liberties Union tweeted.
Flat-out Threats
Deranged leftist nobodies threatened riots and arson, and even worse, to kill Rittenhouse.
Libs of TikTok and Andy Ngo compiled a few of the more unhinged tweets, some of which were deleted:
Amusingly, Ngo observed that one of those who threatened Rittenhouse “crossed state lines,” the familiar refrain we heard about Rittenhouse.
Protestors are even discussing attacking Antioch, Illinois, where Rittenhouse lives.
