Publications Accused Of Attempting To Rehabilitate Kyle Rittenhouse's Image Inspire Memes On Twitter
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse continues to occupy the center of the media and internet's attention, and those two sides appear to have very different ideas of how it should be covered.
This morning, tweets from The New York Times and Reuters that many claimed intentionally framed Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people during the Wisconsin protests of the killing of Jacob Blake, in a positive light rubbed users the wrong way.
To many Twitter users, the tweets seemed in line with a general media trend towards being sympathetic to white shooters, and many expressed their frustration with the sort of image rehabilitation the publications seemed to be engaging in.
jfc @Reuters if you suck Rittenhouse's dick any harder you're gonna turn him inside out.
— Bizarrobrain (@bizarrobrain) November 12, 2021
jfc @Reuters if you suck Rittenhouse's dick any harder you're gonna turn him inside out.
— Bizarrobrain (@bizarrobrain) November 12, 2021
There isn’t really a thing called “playing police officer and medic.” Impersonating or playing at “police officer" when you’re a 17-year-old kid -- with an assault rifle, which no real police officer actually uses -- is illegal. So is impersonating a medic,
— JudithCardamone (@JudithCardamone) November 11, 2021
The tweets also kicked off a small meme imagining if various, unequivocally evil historical figures and fictional characters received the same sort of media treatment.
"Ted Bundy, who became obsessed with women, thought about lobbying for the ERA but ended up going in a little different direction." – NY Times Normalization Section
— Falling Wallenda (@fallingwallenda) November 11, 2021
Sauron, idolizing Morgoth from a young age arrived in Middle Earth with one mission: to create rings. pic.twitter.com/c9im7oOCkf
— Linda (@Romli490) November 11, 2021
Charles Manson, who loved dune buggies and idolized The Beatles, arrived in Los Angeles with dreams of recording success. A thwarted record deal and an address mix-up led to him expressing his grievances in a way that many have issues with. https://t.co/TaMkZHlS51
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) November 11, 2021
John Wayne Gacy brought joy to little children celebrating their birthdays. pic.twitter.com/Y4DnwPhKdS
— Ob Askin (@AskinOb) November 11, 2021
The Rittenhouse trial continues, and opinions about how it's proceeding, both online and offline, show no signs of abating.
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Alex Reynard
"We demonized this kid and did everything possible to present a provably-false narrative of a rampaging white supremacist mass shooter. We did such a good job creating a toxic fog of unforgiving hate, that when we alter course for just a moment to tell the truth, the cultists we created turned their dagger-gazes on us. Eek! How could this have happened!?"
dexodarap
Imagine being so adherent to a political narrative that convinced you Rittenhouse was a murderer the day after it happened that you stay the course on said narrative regardless of how numerous and undeniable the evidence to the contrary is.
These loons are mocking the NYT's for being too nuanced. The same NYT that had a political purge of anyone but the most ardent far left activists in their workplace.
Maybe when even the most ardent advocates of leftist narratives like NYT and THE YOUNG TURKS take a step back and start admitting the obvious, you should take a pause.
katakis
Nice, it took but an hour or two for people to go full Hitler about it
WarLordM
Godwin's Law, forgotten, but not gone