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PolitiFact Stands By Their Rittenhouse
Illegal Weapon Fact Check

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Posted By: Hazymac, 11/17/2021 12:27:48 PM

Judge Bruce Schroeder threw out one of the charges against 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday, in the midst of a trial that has grabbed the nation’s attention this month. The charge involved the allegation that Rittenhouse possessed a dangerous weapon as a minor. The fact-checkers at PolitiFact have been invested in this charge for over a year now. Last August, as part of their fact-checking agreement with Facebook, PolitiFact writer Daniel Funke took a Facebook user to task for suggesting that Rittenhouse carried the rifle legally. (Snip) It sounds like a debate over semantics. Would the poster have gotten away with it if he hadn’t used the adverb “perfectly”? Who knows?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 11/17/2021 12:41:39 PM (No. 980508)
Politifact is full of beans. The law is clear. There is no illegality for a 17 year old to have a normal rifle in his/her possession. The 2nd Amendment has NO connection to hunting.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Namma 11/17/2021 12:49:48 PM (No. 980514)
The guy who had the illegal firearm pointed the gun in Rittenhouse’s face. But the media says not a word about that gun
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Osprey21 11/17/2021 12:51:40 PM (No. 980517)
PolitiFact... Pffft !!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MSUDoc 11/17/2021 12:58:18 PM (No. 980527)
Politi-False.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mathman 11/17/2021 12:58:21 PM (No. 980528)
Not to worry. The jury has been put on notice. The prosecutor let them know with an AR-15 that if they do not convict, they will get an AR-15 round in their heart. Two jurors have already capitulated. Hung jury. Dismiss with prejudice.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 11/17/2021 12:58:38 PM (No. 980531)
It has become quite obvious that these days, any person or group who calls themselves "Fact Checkers" are not interested in presenting the truth, but are "checking" the facts: as in the second definition of verb (used with object): 2: to restrain; hold in restraint or control. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/check?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MDConservative 11/17/2021 1:20:32 PM (No. 980566)
PolitiFact said, "At best, that’s unproven. At worst, it’s inaccurate. Either way, we rate the post False." When in doubt, and it's contrary to the correct position, of course it's "false". Semantics matters...on both sides.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Krause 11/17/2021 1:43:48 PM (No. 980589)
Politifact is left wing. That's all you need to know.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: reefdiver 11/17/2021 1:54:49 PM (No. 980605)
They just politicize the "facts" to fit their leftist narrative. Just like the alphabet news outlets.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Nimby 11/17/2021 2:33:46 PM (No. 980649)
No doubt the Judge in Kenosha ripped another one into the combined media
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Reply 11 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/17/2021 2:34:46 PM (No. 980650)
So PolitiFact is firmly in the fool them twice column.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 11/17/2021 2:36:13 PM (No. 980653)
The prosecutor and the judge agreed to drop the charges because what Rittenhouse did was not illegal. But Politi-BS is smarter than the judge and the prosecutor, apparently. Eye roll.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Come And Take It 11/17/2021 2:47:49 PM (No. 980664)
So, Politifake believes that it knows more about this than the trial judge, who specifically RULED opposite of their assertion?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bad-hair 11/17/2021 4:55:20 PM (No. 980782)
Sorry Ldotters but if he walks into a "burning buildings looting and rioting situation" NOT in his home town carrying a high powered rifle we're NOT talking self defense. If the crowd was on his doorstep or in his neighborhood YES. This is at best manslaughter 2.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: leonardo 11/17/2021 4:59:51 PM (No. 980787)
#14 : Nope.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: scottj 11/17/2021 8:30:06 PM (No. 980986)
Of course they do. If they didn't they would be exposed as the fraud that they are.
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