{"id":367460,"date":"2021-11-15T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:37:48","slug":"problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Problems with Kyle Rittenhouse coverage and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25e8e0875b0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25e8e0875b0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_Collapsing_Media_Narratives\" >Iconoclast: Collapsing Media Narratives\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/#Legal_expert_Rittenhouse_Prosecutors_Disaster\" >Legal expert: Rittenhouse Prosecutors\u2019 Disaster\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_Goodbye_Blue-Collar_Dems\" >From the right: Goodbye Blue-Collar Dems\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/#Foreign_desk_Saudi_Crown_Princes_Revenge\" >Foreign desk: Saudi Crown Prince\u2019s Revenge\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/problems-with-kyle-rittenhouse-coverage-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_Collusion_To_Target_Parents\" >Libertarian: Collusion To Target Parents\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Problems with Kyle Rittenhouse coverage and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_Collapsing_Media_Narratives\"><\/span>Iconoclast: Collapsing Media Narratives\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some mistakes are natural, but \u201cwhen the sources of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> keep getting things wrong, and all the errors lie in the exact same direction, and they are reluctant to acknowledge error, we have a problem,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650\">warns Andrew Sullivan at his Substack<\/a>. Agenda-driven reporting on the Kenosha shootings \u201ceffectively excluded the possibility that [Kyle] Rittenhouse was a naive, dangerous fool . . . who, in the end, shot assailants in self-defense,\u201d so testimony that he did just that \u201ccame as a shock.\u201d Add in the collapse of the Steele dossier: Donald Trump \u201cwas right, in the end, about the dodgy dossier; he was right about the duped FBI\u2019s original overreach; and the mass <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> . . . were wrong. And yet the dossier dominated the headlines for three years, and the \u2018corrections\u2019 have a fraction of the audience of the errors.\u201d Add in the errors on the lab-leak theory, Jussie Smollett\u2019s fictions and so much more: \u201cAll these false narratives just h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to favor the interests of the left and the Democratic Party.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Kenosha-Protest-Shootings-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Kyle Rittenhouse peers at the screen as attorneys for both sides argue about a video during Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-20144723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Kenosha-Protest-Shootings-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Kenosha-Protest-Shootings-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Kenosha-Protest-Shootings-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kyle Rittenhouse peers at the screen as attorneys for both sides argue about a video during Rittenhouse\u2019s trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Mark Hertzberg \/Pool Photo via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Legal_expert_Rittenhouse_Prosecutors_Disaster\"><\/span>Legal expert: Rittenhouse Prosecutors\u2019 Disaster\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWhat is most striking about the [Kyle Rittenhouse] trial is that, even more than a year later, prosecutors seem to be learning critical details at the same time as the jury,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/581411-rittenhouse-trial-perils-of-weighing-public-opinion-over-evidence\">Jonathan Turley fumes at The Hill<\/a>. Testimony described one of those he killed, Joseph Rosenbaum, \u201cas threatening Rittenhouse and others and engaging in random violence;\u201d prosecutors opened the door to the revelation that he \u201csuffered from bipolar disorder.\u201d Gaige Grosskreutz admitted he was shot only after he \u201cpointed his own 9mm handgun at Rittenhouse\u2019s head.\u201d Indeed, \u201ceven the prosecution\u2019s medical witness proved beneficial to the defense.\u201d The jurors may now acquit on all counts, \u201cbecause the credibility of the prosecution is established by the lead charge,\u201d and \u201cif the first-degree charge is wildly out of reach, they are more likely to doubt the lesser charges, too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_Goodbye_Blue-Collar_Dems\"><\/span>From the right: Goodbye Blue-Collar Dems\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The \u201celection returns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey clearly established that large segments of blue-collar voters believe the Democratic Party has betrayed their socioeconomic interests,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/twilight-of-the-blue-collar-democrat\">Charles F. McElwee notes at City Journal<\/a>. In both states, \u201cDemocratic affiliation was once synonymous with economic advancement in working-class communities.\u201d Yet \u201cin South Jersey\u2019s multi-member third legislative district, essentially working-class suburbia, all incumbent Democratic state lawmakers lost,\u201d most prominently state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who was defeated by truck driver Edward Durr. Pennsylvania Dems faced \u201ctheir own reckoning,\u201d losing a crucial state Supreme Court seat. The blue-collar \u201cembrace of the GOP is a reminder that Democrats can\u2019t rely solely on suburban voters.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Saudi-Arabia-G20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, attends the G20 Leaders' Summit via videoconference at the royal palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-20144754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Saudi-Arabia-G20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Saudi-Arabia-G20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Saudi-Arabia-G20.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit via videoconference, Oct. 30, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Aljaloud\/Saudi Royal Palace via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Foreign_desk_Saudi_Crown_Princes_Revenge\"><\/span>Foreign desk: Saudi Crown Prince\u2019s Revenge\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The United States may be reaping \u201cthe bitter fruits\u201d of President Biden\u2019s threats to punish the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/is-the-saudi-crown-prince-exacting-revenge-on-biden\/\">suggests National Review\u2019s Jim Geraghty<\/a>. As The Intercept has argued, MBS is \u201cenacting revenge\u201d on Biden \u201cby driving up energy prices and fueling global inflation.\u201d As a candidate, Biden accused the prince of ordering Khashoggi\u2019s murder. The prez has since backed off, but Geraghty fears \u201cMBS holds a grudge.\u201d Biden \u201cfollowed the tides of emotional, short-term-thinking public opinion\u201d in skewering the Saudi but stood down on realizing the risks. But \u201cjust because Joe Biden wants to forget about his campaign-trail rhetoric, it doesn\u2019t mean MBS is willing to forget it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_Collusion_To_Target_Parents\"><\/span>Libertarian: Collusion To Target Parents\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/11\/12\/biden-administration-school-board-association-colluded-to-direct-fbi-scrutiny-at-parents-who-were-critical-of-school-boards\/\">Reason\u2019s Brian Dougherty is outraged<\/a> that White House officials helped shape the National School Boards Association \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d letter that led to the \u201cpublic aiming of FBI attention at what is overwhelmingly just parents exercising their rights within the public school system, even if loudly.\u201d Along with news that the FBI has vastly upped its probes of \u201cdomestic terrorism,\u201d \u201cthe Biden administration\u2019s obsession with treating heated policy disputes, especially from the perceived right, as worthy of federal investigation as potential \u2018domestic terror\u2019 is dumb and dangerous to American liberty.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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