Pierce writes: "NBC News provides us with Thursday's episode in our ongoing national quiz show, What In The Unholy Fck Are These Idiots Doing?"
Kyle Rittenhouse, left, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wis., with another armed person on Aug. 25. (photo: Adam Rogan/AP)
04 October 20
The Department of "Homeland Security" rallied to the defense of a guy who allegedly crossed state lines with an illegal firearm and killed two people.
BC News provides us with Thursday's episode in our ongoing national quiz show, What In The Unholy Fck Are These Idiots Doing?
In preparing Homeland Security officials for questions about Rittenhouse from the media, the document suggests that they note that he "took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners." Another set of talking points distributed to Homeland Security officials said the media were incorrectly labeling the group Patriot Prayer as racists after clashes erupted between the group and protesters in Portland, Oregon. It is unclear whether any of the talking points originated at the White House or within Homeland Security's own press office.
The Rittenhouse talking points also say, "Kyle was seen being chased and attacked by rioters before allegedly shooting three of them, killing two."
"Subsequent video has emerged reportedly showing that there were 'multiple gunmen' involved, which would lend more credence to the self-defense claims." The document instructs officials, if they are asked about Rittenhouse, to say they are not going to comment on an ongoing investigation and to say that "what I will say is that Rittenhouse, just like everyone else in America, is innocent until proven guilty and deserves a fair trial based on all the facts, not just the ones that support a certain narrative. This is why we try the accused in the court of law, not the star chamber of public opinion."
It was inevitable that Rittenhouse would be made into a hero by the camo-and-long-guns crowd. But having the Executive Branch of the United States government go out of its way to concoct a public defense of someone who allegedly crossed state lines and killed two people and wounded one more with an illegal firearm is a step beyond the right's usual lunacy. The deprogramming is going to take decades.
