NBC News Report on Kyle Rittenhouse Spider Bite Proves You Don’t Hate Media Enough

In 2020, then 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse found himself in a situation he never should have been thrust into. By that, I don’t blame him, but the rampaging mob that decided to chase a teenager in the middle of a riot. They not only knew he was armed, but one of the mob tried to disarm him during the confrontation, making it clear that Rittenhouse had reason to fear for his life. The reporting of that incident was a journalistic tragedy, though, as many people had very strong opinions as to what happened, all while being very wrong about what happened.

And now, NBC News has decided to repeat that mistake by covering, of all things, Rittenhouse getting a spider bite.

Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin, was hospitalized after he was bitten by a venomous spider, the noted firearms enthusiast says. https://t.co/sPEoH0rhjy

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 7, 2026

I saw that Rittenhouse was in the hospital dealing with the bite, but while I hope he will make a full recovery, I didn’t think of it as particularly newsworthy. The guy got bitten by a nasty spider. It sucks and all, but it just wasn’t something I figured I needed to report on.

NBC News, however, was apparently very bored, which I guess is fine. What isn’t fine is just how they describe things in that tweet.

We know that, for better or worse, there are a lot of people who never do more than read the tweets as they’re presented, and look at what they see. Kyle Rittenhouse, you see, opened fire at a civil rights rally. He didn’t defend himself from a rampaging mob trying to kill him. He didn’t shoot a man who’d already assaulted him once with a deadly weapon (a skateboard) and was trying to do it again. He didn’t shoot a third man who pointed a gun at him following all of this, the only one he didn’t kill.

No, he just shot at some peaceful civil rights rally.

Spare me.

Luckily, NBC News is being dragged over this journalistic abomination.

How many times have I said most journalists aren’t real people and you can’t hate mainstream news enough https://t.co/2p87za3CkS

— Donut Operator 🍩 (@DonutOperator) May 8, 2026

This post is a good example of liberal legacy media disinformation.

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 7, 2026

@NBCNews in 1945 “Adolph Hitler defending himself from invasion due to his reasonable disagreement with the Jewish faith”

— Habitual Linecrosser (@HLC_actual) May 8, 2026

“He ‘opened fire at a civil rights rally.’ Well, that is one way to say it. Another way to say it is he ‘opened fire during a riot.’ And yet another way to say it is he ‘opened fire on people who were trying to kill him and that he acted in self-defense according to a jury.’” pic.twitter.com/Yo86XUxqEX

— Stephe96 (@Stephe96) May 8, 2026

“Civil rights rally” is an interesting way of describing the days of rioting in the name of the rapist Jacob Blake, who responded to police attempts to stop him from kidnapping by stabbing them. See the photo of one of the people he shot assaulting him. pic.twitter.com/vFCmc2zEcJ

— firefly_actual (@firefly_actual) May 7, 2026

Seriously, they deserve this. They deserve it so hard that it makes them squeal like Ned Beatty in Deliverance.

There were multiple days of rioting in Kenosha before Kyle Rittenhouse ever showed up. He, armed with an AR-15, stood there until the mob tried to go after him. One of the people he killed was a convicted sex offender, so they died doing what he loved: Trying to touch a kid. The other had a history of violent behavior. Yet he was the bad guy.

So he was tried and acquitted of all charges, but that doesn’t matter. The fiery but mostly peaceful civil rights rally was just a bunch of innocent people peacefully burning Kenosha to the ground, and Kyle Rittenhouse was supposed to just allow himself to be murdered. Peacefully murdered, I’m sure. Since he didn’t, we see this crap.

You do not hate the media enough. You might think you do, but you don’t. You would spontaneously combust before you’d ever get close enough to the proper level of hatred these people deserve for crap like this.

Want to know why so many people have lost trust in the media? This. This right here.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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