This was from before the not guilty verdict.

from
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bari-weiss-kyle-rittenhouse

Bari Weiss dismantles media's falsehoods on Kyle Rittenhouse:
This was a 'disinformation campaign'

The Substack writer calls out CNN, MSNBC, Dem lawmakers
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

Rittenhouse judge slams media for 'grossly irresponsible handling' of
the trial

Substack journalist Bari Weiss tore into the media over its inaccurate
coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse case.

"Here is what I thought was true about Kyle Rittenhouse during the last
days of August 2020 based on mainstream media accounts: The 17-year-old
was a racist vigilante. I thought he drove across state lines, to
Kenosha, Wisc., with an illegally acquired semi-automatic rifle to a
town to which he had no connection. I thought he went there because he
knew there were Black Lives Matter protests and he wanted to start a
fight. And I thought that by the end of the evening of August 25, 2020,
he had done just that, killing two peaceful protestors and injuring a
third… It turns out that account was mostly wrong," Weiss began her
piece Wednesday.

"Unless you’re a regular reader of independent reporting… you would have
been served a pack of lies about what happened during those terrible
days in Kenosha. And you would have been shocked over the past two weeks
as the trial unfolded in Wisconsin as every core claim was undermined by
the evidence of what actually happened that night," Weiss added.

ANDREW SULLIVAN RAILS AGAINST 'MEDIA NARRATIVES' ON KYLE RITTENHOUSE,
RUSSIAGATE: THEY ALWAYS ‘FAVOR’ THE LEFT

The "Common Sense" writer slammed the "disinformation campaign" pushed
by the media and Democratic lawmakers "for the sake of an expedient
political narrative—a narrative that asked people to believe, among
other unrealities, that blocks of burning buildings somehow constituted
peaceful protests."

She pointed to the infamous CNN graphic that read "FIERY BUT MOSTLY
PEACEFUL PROTESTS" as its correspondent reporting from Kenosha last year
stood in front of a fire set by rioters.
(CNN)

She then took a swipe at a tweet written by Rep. Ayanna Pressley,
D-Mass., which read, "A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist
drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15. He shot and killed 2
people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of
Black lives. Fix your damn headlines." Weiss claimed the tweet
summarized "the mainstream position" of Rittenhouse.

"But just as in the cases of Covington Catholic’s Nick Sandmann or
Jussie Smollet or the ‘Russia-collusion’ narrative, almost none of the
details holding up that politically convenient position (boys in MAGA
hats are bigoted; racism is as much a blight as it has always been;
Trump conspired with Putin) were true," Weiss wrote.

POLITIFACT ROASTED FOR PREVIOUS ‘FACT-CHECK’ CLAIMING KYLE RITTENHOUSE'S
POSSESSION OF WEAPON WASN'T LEGAL

Weiss then dismantled the false claims that were pushed by the media
from the declaration that Rittenhouse is a "white supremacist,"
something she said there was "zero evidence" to support, the notion that
he had no ties to Kenosha, where he worked and his father lived, to the
claim he "crossed state lines," which he did for his job the night
before the shootings.

And last but not least, "there’s no clear indication that Rittenhouse
sought to kill anyone."

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"In the aftermath of the media frenzy around the Covington Catholic
story at least there were some mea culpas from the mainstream press,
some sense of shame, some desire to get the egg off their faces. But
with rare exception, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting that here,"
Weiss predicted.

MSNBC SKIPS KYLE RITTENHOUSE DEFENSE'S CLOSING ARGUMENT AFTER AIRING
PROSECUTOR'S CASE TO JURY

The former New York Times opinion editor then roasted MSNBC's Joe
Scarborough for claiming as recently as last week Rittenhouse "drove
across state -- had his mother drive him across state lines—he appointed
himself a militia member, he goes around and he ends up unloading, what,
sixty rounds."

She also took aim at CNN's Bakari Sellars for making similar claims as
well as the falsehood that Rittenhouse was the only person to shoot a
gun that night.

"To admit that the press, in the main, got just about every key fact in
the Rittenhouse case wrong — that he crossed state lines with a gun,
that he had the gun illegally, that he had no connection to Kenosha,
that he was connected to white supremacist groups — has nothing to do
with whether Kyle Rittenhouse should have gone to Kenosha that day. It
has nothing to do with where one stands on the question of open carry…
Or whether or not a teenager should be allowed to walk around with a
semiautomatic rifle," Weiss wrote. "No teenager should have been walking
around the chaos in Kenosha with a semiautomatic rifle that night.
Still, doing so does not forfeit your right to self-defense."

The "Honestly" podcast host went on to insist the "tragedy" that led to
two deaths and another injured "could have been avoided" if Wisconsin
maintained the rule of law.

"It did not help that in many places last summer cities and police
forces indicated or explicitly said they wouldn't defend people’s
property from destruction or burglary during the unrest. And it didn’t
help our understanding of what transpired on August 25 that we were told
repeatedly by national media outlets that there weren’t riots, and there
wasn’t violence in Kenosha that night until Kyle Rittenhouse discharged
his weapon. We could all see the blocks of burning buildings with our
own eyes," Weiss wrote.

She continued, "To acknowledge the facts of what happened that night is
not political. It is simply to acknowledge reality. It is to say that
facts are still facts and that lies are lies. It is to insist that mob
justice is not justice. It is to say that media consensus is not the
equivalent of due process. And that pretending otherwise for the sake of
political expediency is why the National Guard is now standing watch in
Kenosha, bracing for violence once again in the anticipation of a
verdict that for many, has already been decided."

Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News. Follow him on
Twitter @JosephWulfsohn.