What Does It Take To Be A Writer For Slate?
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 3 months ago
Mark Joseph Stern writing at Slate.
This narrative transforms Rittenhouse from an unstable killer to a Second Amendment hero. And you need only accept a few fictions to buy into it. First, you must believe that the protesters chasing down Rittenhouse and attempting to wrest his gun away were not trying to prevent further bloodshed, but simply to brutalize him. Second, you must agree that even if these protesters were trying to confiscate Rittenhouse’s gun, they were wrong to do so, because they were the vicious lawbreakers and he was the vulnerable peacekeeper. Third, you must embrace a definition of self-defense so capacious that it allows a gunman to legally shoot a civilian dead when that civilian is trying to seize a weapon the gunman has used to kill someone. Or, as the New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie put it, “if someone is trying to stop you after you killed someone, you can continue shooting and killing in ‘self-defense.’ ”
In order to be a writer at Slate, you only have to be willing to hawk fiction like the three convicted criminals trying to kill Rittenhouse were only “attempting to wrest his gun away.”
Without even a scintilla of evidence, you have to be willing to publish information you know to be false, like they had no intention of brutalizing him.
Oh, and here’s the criminal in his own words.
On August 28, 2020 at 3:41 am, Duke Norfolk said:
Well it gets more clear with the passing of every day that there will be nothing close to a peaceful resolution with these people. They’re deluded beyond all reason, and will always find a way to twist things to their views. (Not that we didn’t already know this, but many more people are realizing it with every passing event, as they expose themselves for shameless, evil liars.)
On August 28, 2020 at 1:20 pm, Sheepdog said:
So this bolshevik gets a pass on weapons possession by a convicted felon?
On August 28, 2020 at 1:23 pm, Herschel Smith said:
All the good Bolsheviks get a pass on everything at Slate. That’s all you have to do to be a writer at Slate.
On August 28, 2020 at 2:41 pm, Sheepdog said:
Apparently this bolshevik gets a pass from LE too, no news of felony weapon possession charges filed?
Perhaps another Kyle Rittenhouse waiting in the Midwest will finish the job…
On August 28, 2020 at 2:51 pm, Pat Hines said:
Let’s see; Rosenbaum, Grosskreautz, and what was the other? Yes, I see the problem already. 80-85% of Bolsheviks were of the same tribe attempting to subvert Germany in the late 1920s, and were the initial occupants of various work camps.
What would Pinochet do?
On August 28, 2020 at 3:29 pm, Sheepdog said:
Like the religion of peace, the tribe has warring factions.
Case in point, Soros gave up lessor tribe members to the Nazis yet was never pursued as a war criminal.
I’m starting to piece together a picture of the New York City 9/11 dancers to the current US bolshevik revolution formented by this same Hungarian investor…
On August 28, 2020 at 4:15 pm, HempRopeAndStreetlight said:
The Rittenhous defense team would like to take a moment to thank these virtue-signalling shit-lib cretins for exonerating their client.
On August 29, 2020 at 10:05 pm, luke2236 said:
(((stern))) – theres your answer.