Claiming he’s starting a “media accountability project,” Wisconsin killer Kyle Rittenhouse announced that he’s going to sue various professional athletes, celebrities, politicians and media personalities who referred to him as a “murderer,” The Guardian reports.
In an obvious attempted cash-grab, Rittenhouse claims that the people defamed him after he shot and killed two people during unrest in Kenosha, wounding a third.
“Me and my team have decided to launch the Media Accountability Project,” the grammar-challenged Rittenhouse said, “as a tool to help fundraise and hold the media accountable for the lies they say and deal with them in court.”
Rittenhouse’s attempt to pull in money for people’s personal opinions about his use of a gun to shoot various people will likely fail in court should it ever come to a decision, given that people are allowed to voice their opinions due to the First Amendment. Recently, conservative dumb darling Sarah Palin lost a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, claiming they ruined her laughable reputation by accidentally linking a Palin PAC to the mass murder in which Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was severely wounded.
David Shuster, a former MSNBC anchor now with Young Turks, tweeted: “The courts have long established that calling somebody a ‘murderer’ is an opinion and a legal right, even after the person is found ‘not guilty.’ At that point, one can still call them a murderer, just not a ‘convicted murderer’. Nobody has called Rittenhouse that. He has no case.”