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Tomi Lahren and Other GOPers Seem to Be Turning On New Conservative Hero Kyle Rittenhouse

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When Tomi Lahren – a professional attractive blonde conservative that says the ugliest of things – actually sends out a message that makes sense, it sort of throws one for a loop. It is almost as if you saw a cat that barked, you’d want to check yourself and your senses.

But Lahren did say something that we support today, albeit something that shouldn’t have even needed to be said in the first place. She believes it is wrong for the Right to treat Kyle Rittenhouse like the 18-year-old Trump, shooting someone on 5th Ave and getting away with it. Shooting someone, even in self-defense, doesn’t make one a hero.

From Mediaite:

“I agree with the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. I believe that he was innocent. I believe that he should go after the media for how they slandered him and mischaracterized him,” said Lahren on Fox News’ Outnumbered. “I believe that wholeheartedly. And he should set an example and be that example.”

I am not really sure if the media slandered him. Critical, yes. Slander, no. But Lahren then made some sense:

“However, I do think as conservatives we need to be a little careful when it comes to this,” she continued. “I believe we can put up Kyle Rittenhouse as someone who was innocent who was bulled and mistreated by the media, but I think we should step back a little bit and maybe not treat him like he is a rock star or a celebrity.”

“He did what he had to do. He was defending himself. Let’s talk about self-defense. Let’s talk about the riots. Let’s talk about how everything went horribly, horribly wrong that day. But we should take a step back and maybe not make the man Bon Jovi. But that is just my take.”

The people that have treated him like Bon Jovi are the exact type of people that have dreamed of being in his position (and now are more likely to try to be in his position) one in which they get to shoot liberals and get away with it. Perhaps Lahren isn’t among that crowd. She is not Boebert and gun-crazed. Tomi has other passions.

Interestingly, Kennedy agreed with Tomi.

“This is still a tragedy. No one wants to be in this situation and it’s not something that should be celebrated and that’s a really good point.”

She might want to check that statement about no one wanting to be in that situation with some of her more testosterone-driven MAGAs. But the point is well-taken. We give these people plenty of criticism when wrong, we’re going to admit when they’re right.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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