Rittenhouse pushes back on praise for killing "probably two of the worst on the planet"

[Demovictory9]

Rittenhouse Rethinks Trip to Kenosha
Teenager retreats from interviewer's praise for killings


The recently acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse says that, in hindsight, the trip from his home in Illinois to Wisconsin during protests in August 2020 was "probably not the best idea." Rittenhouse, then 17, took an AR-15-style rifle with him and shot three people; Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were killed. On a Monday night episode of the podcast "You Are Here," Rittenhouse said he can't change the decision to travel to Kenosha, NBC reports. "But I defended myself and that's what happened," he said. Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges, including homicide, last month.

Rittenhouse pushed back at praise from the interviewer for the killings. "Of all the people that you shot at, you killed probably two of the worst on the planet," said Sydney Watson. Rosenbaum and Huber had criminal records. "Congratulations," Watson told the teenager, per the Hill. "Good job, you." Rittenhouse answered, "It's nothing to be congratulated about." Rittenhouse has said he went to Kenosha to protect property during the protests against police violence against Black people. "Like, if I could go back, I wish I would never have had to take somebody’s life," he told Watson.

https://www.newser.com/story/314230/kyle-rittenhouse-going-to-kenosha-wasnt-the-best-idea.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

[iemanja]

1. When the killer is less disreputable than the interviewer

[Walleye]

2. A little remorse even is a good sign. As opposed to the Crumbleys who think they are the victims

[rockfordfile]

28. What? rittenhouse and his pos parents are just like Crumbleys.

Un-American right-wing pos.

[BlackSkimmer]

3. Well, good for him.

I hope he’s getting advice from anyone other than the Tucker Carlsons of the world.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

26. I think he is just trying to avoid

a federal hate crime charge. If goes all pro Trump racist (which I think he is), he will be hit with a hate crime by the feds.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Well, that's a start.

It would have been better if he had made such an admonition from behind bars, but oh well.


I’ve run across the sentiment before, that protecting property by killing another person is justified.

Makes me sick.

[Calculating]

11. Property represents a part of your life that you spent working for it

In effect, thieves are stealing a part of your life when they steal your property.

[a kennedy]

25. and thank you for that bullshit contribution. Goodbye.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

27. Seriously?

[keithbvadu2]

21. Yet KR lied about the property owner asking him to protect it.

Yet KR lied about the property owner asking him to protect it.

[Haggard Celine]

5. That's the first decent thing I've heard him say.

Maybe this is a sign that he's not going to be the GOP's poster boy. I think it means, at least, that he's thinking for himself. Maybe he learned something while he was in lockup.

[Demovictory9]

6. he's said that he's pro BLM and is pushing back on the "hero for killing". GOP will turn on him

[Haggard Celine]

7. Yeah, they'll be calling him a little socialist before we know it.

They grow up so quick!

[JI7]

8. He has too many trashy people around him including his mother

that encourage the shit behavior that might destroy him one day.

[Zeitghost]

9. I never bought the narrative

That he showed up to kill. He was a dumb kid in over his head. It's nice to see that even though his actions were deemed legal, that he also understands they were avoidable.

[Demovictory9]

10. I think he understands that he's got a tough road ahead as an accused murderer

that charge will follow him everywhere.

[NH Ethylene]

12. I had envisioned him puffed up and gloating.

So I am very happy to hear this.

[Demovictory9]

13. he is no Zimmerman

[tishaLA]

14. OK, but maybe stop the media tour

especially media like this and the 8 PM host on FNC--the deplorables. It might be wise to just try to fade back into your small corner of the world for a while and stop drawing attention to yourself.

[crud]

15. yeah

why is he on RW media

[Hortensis]

18. Don't know, but I read the interview in the WaPo, and he didn't just resist

but rejected several attempts by the skilled troll of an interviewer to milk him for the usual narratives.

He held to his position of regret, that he wished he hadn't been there, killed anyone, etc. Of note, he still faces federal charges, and he certainly has to have that in mind, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be basically sincere also. We'll see. Even if we wanted, most of us couldn't avoid hearing at least some of what he does in future. For now, an 18-year-old, it was a good job.

WaPo: Watson told her guest, Kyle Rittenhouse, that it was “kind of impressive” that “of all the people that you shot at, you killed probably two of the worst on the planet. Congratulations. “Good job, you.” Rittenhouse, 18, responded that the killings were “nothing to be congratulated about.” “Like, if I could go back, I wish I would never have had to take somebody’s life,” he said. Watson... asked if Rittenhouse regretted going to Kenosha in the first place. ... “Well, hindsight being 20/20, probably not the best idea to go down there,” Rittenhouse said. “Can’t change that. But I defended myself and that’s what happened.”

Meanwhile, many on the right have valorized the teenager. ... ... ... Tucker Carlson said that Rittenhouse “tries his best to do the right thing at a time when almost no one else in the community is trying to do the right thing.” But during his appearance on “You Are Here,” Rittenhouse pushed back on that narrative. “You don’t like when people call you a hero?” Watson asked. “Does it make you uncomfortable?” “It does — it really does,” Rittenhouse said, adding: “Because I don’t think I did anything heroic; I just defended myself.”

Despite the offers from members of Congress, Rittenhouse told NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield he’s not interested in entering politics “at all.” Rittenhouse said during the podcast on Monday that he will attend Arizona State University in the spring. Responding a listener’s question, Rittenhouse also said on the podcast that he plans to destroy the rifle he used in Kenosha. “You’re not going to, like, sell it?” Watson asked, suggesting to Rittenhouse that he could make a lot of money. “We’re just having it destroyed,” Rittenhouse reiterated. “I think that’s the best thing, and that’s what I want to do with it.”

[maxsolomon]

17. "two of the worst on the planet"?

PUTIN is on this planet.

MBS is on this planet.

[bullwinkle428]

20. I immediately thought of two other names - closer to home, if you know what I mean!

[NickB79]

19. He said he was destroying the AR-15 he used in the shooting as well

Man, the gun nuts went NUTS over that one. Screaming he's just a woke cuck, saying he lied to them when they thought he was a hero for their cause, etc. They turn on their own really fast.

[nolabear]

22. That kid might find he has a tiger by the tail.

Interesting idea if he's being encouraged to wave his gun and the flag and he's beginning to see how he's being used. I hope so. But if they want that and others hate him for what he did he doesn't have much of anywhere to go. That's dangerous.

[keithbvadu2]

23. Something about a shirt with 'Free as Fu_k' printed on it.

Partying with Proud Boys.

His 'remorse' seems more like a public relations gambit.

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. Fuck that murderer

He should be rotting in prison.

[Torchlight]

29. And I'm guessing people will actually believe him.

That night he found precisely what he wanted to find. He accomplished his fantasies.