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Fox News Host Won't Glorify Kyle Rittenhouse:
'He's Not A Hero Here'
Gillian Turner appeared to urge viewers to resist
"a victory lap" for Rittenhouse's acquittal even as right-wing groups
have embraced him.
Curtis M.
Wong
By
Curtis M.
Wong
22/11/2021
11:36pm GMT
Fox News
correspondent Gillian Turner is urging the conservative network’s viewers not
to interpret Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal as a cause for celebration.
In Monday’s
installment of “Outnumbered,” which touched on President Joe Biden’s varied
responses to the verdict, Turner noted that it was “particularly hard for facts
to break through all the emotion” in the media’s coverage of the trial.
“This case
is particularly tragic because Kyle may have been acquitted, but he’s not a
hero here,” she said. “There are no heroes, there are no winners. There is no
victory lap for Kyle or anybody else to take.”
Turner then
went on to suggest that the “threat of more protests, more riots” could
increase in the wake of the verdict.
“It seems
like, yet again, America is kind of on this razor-thin knife’s edge,” she said,
“and everything is flammable and could go pear-shaped in an instant.”
Rittenhouse,
18, was acquitted of all charges last week in the 2020 shooting deaths of two
unarmed men and the wounding of another. The shootings, which Rittenhouse said
were acts of self-defense, took place amid protests that erupted in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, last summer following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black
man.
Rittenhouse’s
acquittal immediately drew praise in right-wing media circles and other groups
that champion gun rights. At least three Republican lawmakers have offered the
teen congressional internship positions.
An
interview with Rittenhouse is scheduled to air Monday on Fox News’ “Tucker
Carlson Tonight.” Carlson, a staunch defender of Rittenhouse, also revealed last
week that his team had been working with the Illinois teen on a forthcoming
documentary.
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