I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kyle Rittenhouse this year. If you were to pay attention to the media, you’d think he’s a braggadocious manipulator with sociopathic tendencies. The Kyle I met wasn’t any of that. He’s a relatively quiet, shy, and polite teenager with ambitions of going to college and becoming something normal.
He’s pretty much a lot like every teenager I’ve ever met with one exception: he lives in equal states of fame and infamy far beyond that of any normal person.
Every once in a blue moon, Rittenhouse will trend on Twitter because of some dumb reason or another. On Monday, he came up again, this time for apparently taking a picture with a police officer. This was enough to send the left spiraling into conniption fits and the right to, once again, rise up in his defense.
The thing is, this shouldn’t even be necessary. Rittenhouse was found “not guilty” after he was put on trial for the murder of three people (one attempted) during a Black Lives Matter riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The story, at this point, should be pretty well known. Rittenhouse was defending himself against three people who attempted to assault him while he was carrying a gun. Not only do these men deserve Darwin awards, but they also deserve the ire of the American people at large. All three were criminals, one of them was a habitual domestic abuser, and another of them was a pedophile. All of them were white, and while this shouldn’t be an important detail, the left made it become one.
The general population doesn’t seem to have a grasp on the facts about Rittenhouse’s actions that night in Kenosha, nor who he is as a person. This is because the mainstream media was out to paint Rittenhouse as one of the evilest people walking the planet and did its absolute best to take a normal kid and turn him into the next Hitler.
Just watch this super-cut of the media reporting on Rittenhouse and see just how much prejudice they have for the kid.
SUPERCUT!
Media: Why do reporting when we already know Rittenhouse is a terrorist? pic.twitter.com/abebdPyiIs
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2021
The media painted him as an out-of-control vigilante with deep-seated racism. Even President Joe Biden went so far as to call him a “white supremacist” and I’ve overheard more than one conversation among Dallasites where they painted him as a racist extremist.
Again, he’s none of those things, but this isn’t exactly common knowledge. As you can see above, the media is to blame for this.
Rittenhouse isn’t the first young man the media attempted to ruin. They thought they’d found an easy target in Rittenhouse just like they thought they’d found an easy target in Nick Sandmann. Someone they could use as a perfect example of how Donald Trump’s own racist extremism is transforming this country into a living nightmare for everyone but white men.
They wanted to make an example of Kyle with the clear message that if you resist any of these pro-leftist/anti-Trump movements you will be destroyed. Thankfully, justice prevailed and Rittenhouse was found innocent, as he should be. However, the damage is done. Rittenhouse won’t be able to live a normal life for years to come. His every move will be watched and judged. He will have people looking for any opportunity they can to ruin him, or at the very least, ridicule him.
Rittenhouse may have been found innocent by the standards of the law, but the left will never let him go.
The treatment of Kyle Rittenhouse is one of the biggest indicators that the media isn’t just unreliable, it is dangerous.
