Folks, if your anxiety is rising and your blood pressure is off the charts and you wonder if the wrong horse is pulling the American cart, Dr. Truth has your diagnosis: You are experiencing the fallout from being in the very eye of troubling times where most Americans believe that the only constant in their lives is in the daily chaos which surrounds them.

Now more than ever, Americans are desperate for something to believe in anything upon which they can find their emotional footing and restore their faith that America is headed in the right direction. Try as you might however, you won’t find that needed renewal by what you read in the media — the Fourth Estate — as the American press is not your partner in restoring your faith in America, its sacred institutions or its people. Instead, the media are pot-stirrers of the first order and shameless instigators of division.

As found in a recent Reuters Institute Poll, the United States press ranks last in media trust, at 29 percent, which is about seven points lower than Joe Biden’s present approval rating, indicating just how low the press can go.

Nowhere was this lack of trust more magnified than in the media’s reporting of the State of Wisconsin vs. Kyle Rittenhouse.

If you truly believed all of the amalgamated press on the Kyle Rittenhouse case prior to the presentation of a somewhat important thing called “evidence” at an “actual trial”, you might have been led to believe that: Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist/domestic terrorist who carried an illegal rifle across state lines to Kenosha, WI, a place upon which he had no ties, to murder two black men and recklessly and without cause, injure a third man during an otherwise peaceful, non-violent civil protest on Aug. 25, 2020.

Well, at least part of that above scenario is true; Kyle Rittenhouse was in Kenosha on Aug. 25. The rest was simply a false narrative pushed by an irresponsible media.

No evidence existed that Rittenhouse believed in the superiority of the white race and as was the case with Loudon County Virginia parents (complaining to their school board over CRT instruction and same-sex bathrooms) there equally was zero evidence to label Mr. Rittenhouse a domestic terrorist.

Moreover, he did not carry a rifle across state lines and it was not illegal for him to possess that rifle under Wisconsin Law which is made infinitely clear by photos, post verdict, of a 16 year old black female carrying a similar rifle in Kenosha while providing security for those protesting the Rittenhouse verdict.

Rittenhouse was no stranger to Kenosha. His father lived there and while he shot three men in self defense, they were not black and it certainly was not “murder” which is a term of legal art, and obviously beyond the intellectual capacity of those who labeled him as such.

And finally, Southeastern Wisconsin was anything but peaceful that night as Kenosha was undergoing its third consecutive night of burning and violence resulting in over $50 million in damage; the effect of which Kenosha has yet to recover.

Yep, the Fourth Estate misled America and the angry woke mob bought it, hook line and proverbial stinker.

Factually, it was a case that should never have been filed. It was self evident to those who actually viewed the evidence against the law and engaged in just a bit of critical thinking that Wisconsin’s self defense statute shredded any hope of prosecuting Mr. Rittenhouse under the undisputed facts of this case. In fact, the prosecutor’s own witnesses made Rittenhouse’s self defense claim for him before he ever took the stand in his own defense.

So why was it brought? Why was a six count indictment filed against Rittenhouse within hours of his arrest without any investigation of the actual facts of his case? Simply put, it was filed for political capital, to promote a false narrative and to appease the woke mob who wanted desperately to convince you that a white supremacist/domestic terrorist was out and about seeking to devour those otherwise peaceful protestors.

You even had then-citizen Biden chiming in to advance his political campaign by tweeting a video (that included a photo of Mr. Rittenhouse), along with a query posed by Fox News’ Chris Wallace to then-President Trump during a 2020 debate: ‘Are you willing tonight to condemn…white supremacists and militia groups…as we saw in Kenosha?’”

In legal circles, we call that type of misleading information “defamation by innuendo” and “false light” which is obviously known to Mr. Rittenhouse by his use of the word “malice” in his post-acquittal interview.

Yes, at some later date, some lucky lawyer may just take citizen Biden’s deposition, under oath and without his reliance on a teleprompter which should provide some extremely entertaining reading.

Despite no person of color being involved in Rittenhouse’s case and after it was already established he did not carry an illegal weapon across state lines, post verdict, emboldened by the words of our current feckless leader, others piled on: MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross called Rittenhouse a “little murderous white supremacist” and New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio called him “a violent, dangerous man who chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.”

And it didn’t stop there. After attacking Rittenhouse, the woke mob harangued the jury system itself, stating: “It’s good be a white-murderer,” and “the system is working exactly as it is meant to, the system was always meant to protect and uphold white supremacy.”

There were literally thousands of such inflammatory and false libelous tweets making the news by politico pundits, Hollywood elites and the uninformed.

After the meltdown, one thing is infinitely clear: Mr. Rittenhouse will have the pick of the litter when the civil defamation suits start hitting the docket.

So what are we left with? Where have all the Walter Cronkites gone? After the free fall of the American Press, our only conclusion is that actual unbiased, fair and balanced news coverage is a thing of the past.

At some point in your lives, you’ve likely heard the well-known idiom, “the tail wagging the dog” without fully understanding its meaning. First appearing in “Our American Cousin,” the stage play attended by President Abraham Lincoln when assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, its actual meaning is quite apropos in reference to our American media. It means something important or powerful being controlled by something less so, and within our America, there’s nothing more important, sacred or powerful than the rendering of justice.

Those twelve Rittenhouse jurors understood that message and refused to buckle to the daily media barrage of false reporting. They refused to let the tail-wagging press wrongfully influence the administration of justice. Those brave twelve withstood the intense daily pressure of protestors on the courthouse steps, shouting “No justice, no peace,” and being chased by reporters hoping to cop a photo op. They further ignored the peddled narrative that if Rittenhouse was acquitted, there would be a chaotic recompense coming to the community which set that “little killer” free.

Those jurors showed immense courage in applying the actual evidentiary facts against the parameters of the law to reach a verdict. This is how the system should work: the rendering of pure unadulterated justice without allowing outside agitators to fracture the legal process and the fair administration of that justice.

Blindfolded Lady Justice holding the Scales of Justice appears in courthouses all across America; her message clear that under the law, we all stand equal before her, blind to our color, wealth or station in life in the administration of justice.

The media, however, wants you to believe that Rittenhouse’s skin color saved him from jail. “The Rittenhouse verdict,” wrote Michael Harriot in The Guardian, “is proof that it is reasonable to believe that the fear of black people can absolve a white person of any crime.”

Wrong again — it was Rittenhouse’s claim of self defense within a jury system that worked as it was intended to work by analyzing the evidence against the framework of the applicable law. And it is exactly how it worked in Florida where on the same day of the Rittenhouse verdict, a jury also acquitted Mr. A.J. Coffee IV on the grounds of self defense against charges for murder and attempted murder occurring within the confines of a firefight with police.

That verdict did not receive much play, however, because Mr. Coffee IV is black. It was ignored because it did not fit the media’s irresponsible narrative that the entire jury system is tainted by white privilege and racism because Rittenhouse was acquitted.

Rittenhouse was not guilty. Of irresponsible and false reporting the media is guilty. You be the judge.

Dan Shannon, “The Smartest Man in the Room”