Comcast interferes with Rittenhouse trial

The New York Times reported, "Judge bans MSNBC from Kenosha courthouse after report of producer following jurors."

Let's not mince words. This is the doing of Comcast, which is the ultimate owner of MSNBC. Under Comcast, MSNBC has gone from being an apologist and waterboy for Democrats to being out-and-out Maoist. Throughout the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, MSNBC has had black supremacist Joy Reid openly root for a conviction. She has twisted this trial of a white teen who shot three white assailants into a white-on-black crime.

Comcast approves of this bizarre coverage.

The rest of the media has also played up a race angle that just isn't there. AP reported it was a nearly all-white jury! Kenosha County is 88% white, 5% black. Who did AP think would sit on the jury? The Harlem Globetrotters?

On Wednesday night, Comcast crossed the line by having a producer follow the bus that was taking jurors home. The message was clear: We know who you are and we are going to expose you if you acquit.

NYT reported, "The Kenosha Police Department said the man, whom the judge identified as James Morrison, had been released after being taken into custody and given traffic citations and that he had not taken any pictures of the jurors.

"In a statement, NBC News said the man was a freelancer and that while he had 'received a traffic citation' near the vehicle carrying the jurors, he had 'never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations.' The network said that the man had also not photographed or intended to photograph the jurors."

Morrison and Comcast's CEO should be charged with jury intimidation. 

Comcast's excuse was Morrison was trying to book jurors for post-trial interviews on MSNBC. That is garbage. Jurors who want to be interviewed will make that known.

Given the awful job the national media has done in covering this trial, I believe only local TV stations and news outlets should be allowed in any future state trial in any state. Local TV stations and newspapers are far from perfect but they will be around after the trial is over and they will have to deal with the consequences.

The only way to make MSNBC pay is to have the guy at the top of the chain of command -- Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts -- pay.