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9 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This NYT article actually does a reasonable job - not a great job, but reasonable - describing the serious evidentiary problems prosecutors already face in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial: all the more reason not to form opinions on his guilt without watching:

nytimes.com/2021/11/08/us/…
This also highlights the huge problem with dissent-free media. The Rittenhouse case was complex from the start, given the chaos. But look how these media outlets just settle on an ideological narrative and don't even hint that there's real dissent to it:

I also want to note that the Daily Caller's @RichieMcGinniss was a key witness. Why? Because he put his life on the line -- was almost killed -- to cover this protest on the ground, and literally took his shirt off his back to try to save the life of one of the people shot.
Ever since, McGinniss has been scrupulous in reporting what he saw. He's from the part of the media that the credentialed liberal corporations deny "real reporter" status to even though the work he does resembles "real reporting" - brave reporting - far more than his critics.

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10 Nov
What happened to the whole thing about criminal justice reform, prison abolition, the evils of the carceral state, the inherent pro-prosecution bias, rehabilitative justice?

It all instantly disappears based if the accused has the wrong ideology. Then it's: law and order!
I also don't believe the people saying this have watched much or any of the trial. They're instead demanding a now-18-year-old be imprisoned for life because they know their political followers want to hear that or they're looking for positive social media attention: both gross.
With both Rittenhouse and the 1/6 defendants, it's absolutely bizarre (and more than a little grotesque) to watch liberals jettison every criminal justice reform principle they claim to believe because of the ideology of the accused, and suddenly turn into pro-prison fanatics.
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10 Nov
I never commented on the Rittenhouse case until I started watching large chunks of the trial, and all I can say is that anyone who has done the same and denies that there's a huge gap between the media narrative about this and what actually happened is not telling the truth.
Hey, I'm a lawyer who admits I haven't watched the trial ("in minute detail") but I'd nonetheless like to announce that the view I have of what happened is exactly what my liberal followers want to hear and will instantly click re-tweet: pure toxicity.

Kudos to @AnaKasparian for acknowledging that, as she actually watched the trial, she realized that the narrative she was fed by corporate media about the Rittenhouse case was wildly different than the fact. And this before the most important evidence:

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9 Nov
Look at what an amoral sociopath Adam Schiff is. He spent years promoting the Steele Dossier. He read it into the Congressional Record. He lied about the "smoking gun" evidence he saw (that Mueller never found). Watch how he worms his way around to avoid even an iota of mea culpa
Notable that Adam Schiff -- who appears on every CNN, MSNBC and Sunday morning network news program as often as possible -- just had his first truly adversarial questioning about his pathological Russiagate lies not on any of those networks but from Morgan Ortagus on the View.
I spoke this morning with @krystalball and @esaagar this morning, examining the latest indictments of Russiagate fabulists and what this tell us about the entire fraud and the media's role in it:

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8 Nov
I hope anyone who plans on opining on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, whatever it may be, spends significant time watching most or all of the trial, not relying on media accounts.

Almost no trial can be credibly assessed without watching it, but especially one this fraught.
This is yet another one of those bizarre instances -- like 1/6 -- where much of the liberal-left is cheering for the prosecutors and championing pro-law-and-order theories, while the right is enthralled by civil liberties and defendants' rights.

All the more reason to watch.
If Rittenhouse had shot and killed anyone black, that would have been **the headline** of any Intercept article on his case, or any other digital outlet like it. But since all the people he shot were white, they just don't mention their race -- at all!

theintercept.com/2021/10/30/kyl…
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8 Nov
Absolutely bizarre that the @WashingtonPost has a media reporter covering the industry's systemic failures on Russiagate and the Steele Dossier, and the Post's Executive Editor refuses to answering their own reporter's questions, citing a vague, empty statement she released.
This is something I realized very early on after I began writing about politics. Few institutions refuse transparency the way corporate media do. They (ostensibly) demand transparency from everyone else, but so often refuse to answer basic questions about their own conduct.
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8 Nov
Don't allow the US media to turn Rachel Maddow into the Judy Miller of Russiagate: the one person who gets scapegoated so they can pretend she was the only one (along with a few internet crazies) who perpetuated this fraud.

Virtually every mainstream institution pushed this:
Also watch for their other self-defensive tactic: pretending that the only part of this to be exposed as a fraud was the Steele Dossier.

The Dossier set the narrative for the next 3 years. It gave birth to Mueller. Everything flowed from it. And it was all a fraud.
The real criminality - and the actually nefarious "interference in our elections" - came from an axis of Clinton operatives, their media servants and the security state (FBI/CIA) to abuse their power to propagandize the public with an election-year fraud.

washingtonpost.com/business/was-t…
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