Kyle Rittenhouse Gonna Sue The Media, Please Send Money
The grift is strong with this one.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who was recently acquitted of murdering two racial justice protestors in Wisconsin, is a fast learner. He’s only been part of the grift-o-sphere for a few months, and already he’s kicking that money machine into high gear with a new organization dedicated to bringin’ it to the evil media.
“It’s time to hold the worst offenders in our media accountable in court for their malicious and defamatory lies,” he tweeted, announcing the formation of The Media Accountability Project, “the official fundraising vehicle for helping Kyle Rittenhouse hold the worst offenders in our activist media accountable in court.”
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And because young Kyle cannot abide “activist media,” he made a beeline straight for Fox’s Tucker Carlson to plug his new project.
“You have a lot of potential targets,” asked Fox News’s fascism correspondent. “Will you be suing any of these news organizations, and, if so, when?”
“Right now we’re looking at quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes. Whoopi Goldberg is on the list — she called me a murderer after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers,” said the aggrieved teenager, perhaps unaware that saying “Two people were murdered. To me it’s murder. I’m sorry,” is a clear expression of opinion. And, not for nothing, but it’s The View, not Walter Cronkite.
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Rittenhouse went on to insist that he’s going to “hold everybody who’s lied about me accountable,” particularly people who called him a white supremacist.
“We’re going to hold everyone accountable in a court room,” he vowed.
And it’s a free country — the kid can sue anyone he wants, although the pictures of him flashing the “white power” sign and palling around with Proud Boys might complicate matters. We’d note that he threatened to sue President Biden back in November, and has yet to file a complaint. We’d also note that The View is filmed in New York, which just reformed its SLAPP laws.
But if Kyle Rittenhouse wants to spend his fifteen minutes hoovering up griftbux via a Nevada LLC cum online T-shirt shop — donations “not tax-deductable!” — there’s no one who can stop him. And clearly, there’s no rational adult in his life who can advise him to stop himself.
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Why yes, that is a person who shot dead two racial justice protestors using the words of a slain civil rights leader to raise money for his own doomed litigation. Looks like that boy is trying to murder irony now.
Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.
