In The Bag

This blog was founded primarily to lend my small, relatively insignificant voice to pointing out the growing bias and ethical turpitude the mainstream media.

That was in 2002 – a much more innocent time, relatively speaking.

As we’ve documented the proceedings in the Rittenhouse trial, I’ve noted the scabrous, depraved slant in the coverage.

Someone actually put ’em in the same place:

Local media is no better; most ran headlines similar to the above during Monday’s proceedings – only Channel 11 made a quick headline reference to the fact that Grosskreutz incriminated himself and upheld Rittenhouses self-defense claim against him (without saying it in as many words, naturallly).

Public media? NPR and MPR this morning ran a report from Wisconsin Public Radio about yesterday’s proceedings that focused on a dispute over whether the owner of the used car lot where the incident started did or did not pay, or even ask, civilians to provide security – which will have no impact on the verdict, other than perhaps gulling any potentially dim jurors…

…and ignored the county Medical Examiner and photographer Nathan DeBruin, who largely upheld Rittenhouse’s self-defense claim.

I tend to give people the benefit of a doubt. Reporters aren’t largely lawyers. Many of them aren’t curious enough to go much past the press releases that seem to make up so much of one’s morning newscast.

But this goes way past ignorance, and given the amount of reliable information that is available, incompetence as well.

They are pushing a narrative; protesters good, protests mostly peaceful, resistance entirely depraved and motivated by white supremacy.

To the narrative, the battle is a reductionist cartoon with white hats on one side and MAGA caps on the other, counting on news consumers to be too dim to know the difference.

As the 2020 elections, the California recount, and the recent election in Austin Texas show, its not wrong.

14 thoughts on “In The Bag

  1. I watched the trial live yesterday, and am watching it live right now.

    Yesterday, the antifa medic admitted Kenosha Kyle didn’t fire until the medic ran at him while pointing a gun he wasn’t legally allowed to carry, directly at Kyle. The prosecutor put his head in his hands at that point.

    Today, the prosecution called the ME, who established Kyle shot the pedophile in the head, the chest and the hand after he grabbed the gun, and he established skateboard bro got shot once, through the heart and lungs (nice shot!) after he hit Kyle, and was getting ready to hit him again.

    The government has failed miserably; not that they ever had a case.

    I’m watching a live stream on a lawyer’s YouTube channel. There are 6 criminal lawyers commenting remotely from all over the country…well face palming and laughing actually. They have all concluded the trial is over, and Kenosha Kyle is going to exit the courtroom in hero’s robes.

    The state is trying to keep the curfew violation going….no, I’m not kidding.

    You can watch the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYhUSFaa9U

  2. I agree that the trial appears to be a lopsided contest for the defense. However, jury trials are unpredictable. I won’t breathe easily until the verdict is in.

  3. y’all are just twigging to the fact that the MSM is the full blown propaganda arm of the Democrat party?

  4. Some people (whose hopes were monumentally crushed yesterday) are still holding to the fact that supposedly he was too young to be carrying an AR-15. I don’t know WI law well enough to know if they have an age limit for usage of certain types of firearms.

  5. I am reposting this quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “The Black Swan”:
    “When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

    It could be written more succinctly as “You cannot reason a person out of an opinion that they were not reasoned in to.”

    The ferocious eagerness of our media to jam every occurrence into a preexisting narrative is obvious to everyone — other than those in the media.

    BTW, the latest in the Durham investigation is that Hillary hire Perkins-Coie, who hired Fusion GPS to do oppo research. Fusion GPS hired psychopath Christopher Steele to develop a report on Trump’s connections to Putin and other shady Russkis. Steele paid a Russian national, residing in the US and suspected FSB agent (and now under indictment) Igor Danchenko to gather rumors about Trump and Russian intelligence.
    Danchenko turned to a DNC operative & Hillary fan named Chuck Dolan. Almost all of the info in the “Steele Dossier” came from Dolan, who is actually an unregistered agent of the Russian government. Dolan worked for Gazprom, in Russia, for several years, and is still on their payroll.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/pr-executive-1-identified-as-longtime-clinton-adviser-who-fed-falsehood-to-steele-source

  6. I thought the same, Allen. Team Kyle was 10 points ahead at the 2 minute warning. Why throw a Hail Mary?

  7. By testifying, Rittenhouse, allowed the prosecutors to have the last say in the trial. Not good.

  8. ‘That’s a nice house you got there, nice family. Be a shame if someone burned it burned it down your house while your wife and kids are in it’ is a powerful incentive to sacrifice the scapegoat.

    If Kyle’s jurors got the same message the Chauvin jury received, then evidence doesn’t matter, the case was over before it began, and this show-trial kangaroo court is a waste of time.

    https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2021/11/mob-justice-judge-jurors-threatened-in-rittenhouse-daunte-wright-trials/

  9. Testifying is dangerous for a defendant, to be sure, but apart from not understanding the uses of different bullets, which is understandable for a 17 year old, I think he rocked it. Hopefully it gets at least one juror to heed his conscience and say “I’m sorry, but those clowns were trying to kill him, and were credible threats. Innocent.”

    With GolfDoc and others, I’m also nervous about what the mood to the jury will be.

  10. If Rittenhouse gets anything less than than a life sentence, the lib journalists and lawmakers — who should know what is going on — will be as shocked as they were when Trump was elected.
    The mechanism they use to observe and analyze reality is broken. Read a few of Emery’s comments if you don’t believe me.

  11. There’s a lot going on in the world so it’s hard to know what to focus on, especially when the media has already told you what you should think. Anyone following this case at a distance is going to assume a guilty verdict, and if it comes there will be quite a storm (and hopefully a little self-inspection).

    I was stunned (which is something hard to do these days) at LeBron’s mocking of Rittenhouse’s emotional testimony. If it was someone in his own family, or a black young man, receiving the same treatment in court, LBJ would be outraged. I think he needs to “educate” himself, just as he told NBA fans to do when they mocked his self-serving support of China.

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