The Left Continues to Slander Kyle Rittenhouse

CLAY: Buck, we were talking about how narrative trumps facts. And I want to play this audio clip from MSNBC. This is Tiffany Cross there. She calls Kyle Rittenhouse a “little murderous white supremacist.” And obviously there’s no evidence of this. In fact, we’ll play some cuts from Kyle Rittenhouse in a bit. But I want to contrast this narrative with the one that is coming out of the incident that happened last night with the Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Listen to Tiffany Cross on MSNBC. Play cut 5.

CROSS: I find these people disgusting. I’m disgusted at what I’m seeing. It’s not just this trial. It’s other trials. But this in particular, the fact that white supremacists roam the halls of Congress freely and celebrate this little murderous white supremacist and the fact that he gets to walk the streets freely, it lets you know these people have access to instituting laws. They represent the legislative branch of this country.

BUCK: He’s neither a murderer or a white supremacist.

CLAY: Correct.

BUCK: But legally clearly not a murderer; so that’s actually just an inaccurate thing to say. And we still have yet to see any actual evidence for this alleged white supremacy with Kyle Rittenhouse. If a white guy being attacked by three other white guys and defending himself is white supremacy, then the term no longer has meaning. What you realize is that’s actually the point. It’s now just a slur that’s used for anything the left wants to attack and destroy. He doesn’t have to have any connection to race, racism, actual white supremacy. It’s just, you know, that’s bad, I hate it, let’s call it white supremacy. And, unfortunately, it’s been very effective as a tool to deploy, as a weapon to deploy against people. But, I think, Clay, people might start to change their minds about how much they will put behind these allegations, how much they’ll listen to this stuff.

CLAY: I don’t have any doubt at all. And I just want to contrast with you, Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty by reason of self-defense by shooting three white men, yet he’s being branded a white supremacist all over the place on MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post, and the New York Times for months. This guy, black man drives, kills multiple people, white people, in a Christmas parade. There is evidence in his background of BLM support, of anti-Donald Trump raps, of anti-Trump Jewish statement, again, this guy, yet anybody suggesting that race might be an issue there when you have a black man killing white people is totally unacceptable.

Yet a white man killing other white people is evidence of white supremacy. This is narrative over fact, Buck, and it’s so frustrating because what it does is divide so many of us that have so much more in common, white, black, Asian, and Hispanic it’s all identity politics driven.

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GABBARD: The jury got it right in finding Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges. The reality is that the fact that these charges were brought before there was any serious investigation to what occurred is evidence that the government was actually motivated by politics from the beginning, which in and of itself should be considered criminal.

BUCK: That is Tulsi Gabbard saying what we all understand to be the situation here about the Rittenhouse trial and the aftermath. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. They formed a narrative right away and it wasn’t just a question what the media was saying about Kyle Rittenhouse and defamation of him including by Joe Biden when he was a candidate, not the president, which some say might open him up to lawsuits in a way that would not have necessarily been anticipated.

But you have the Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict and now a lot of people looking around saying, where’s the accountability in the media? And it’s not just for what they said that was wrong in the last few weeks but the first few weeks right after the incident happened last summer, June of 2020 when Kenosha was burning because Biden voters were upset about something and we are supposed to now think that somehow they’re going to be better going forward, that they’re trustworthy?