The best thing that can come from the Rittenhouse saga, other than an acquittal, is that people recognize the media’s race lies for what they are.
n today’s episode of “How The National Media Deceive You…”
A friend last weekend texted me, “Had no idea Kyle shot 3 white guys. Not that it matters. But it’s been painted as a hate crime.”
My friend — a Democrat and a law student at Berkeley — was referring to the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. Now, where, oh where, might my friend have gotten the impression that Rittenhouse had shot men who were anything but white as snow?
Well, here’s an example of how the national news media have been covering this saga since last year on that fateful night of rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times began a column this week thusly: “I’ve spent the last couple of weeks riveted by the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white teenager who shot and killed two people and injured a third during a night of Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest in Kenosha, Wis., last year.”
That’s interesting. Manjoo believed the race of the shooter was worth mentioning — “the white teenager”! — but apparently thought that demographic detail was uninteresting when it came to the men who were shot. Readers just needed to know that these men were at “a night of Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest.”
full story at https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/18/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-is-a-case-study-in-the-medias-lies-about-racism/