Kyle Rittenhouse is going after media, Whoopi Goldberg for calling him a 'murderer'

On the Tucker Carlson show Monday night, Kyle Rittenhouse announced a project to hold the media accountable for telling lies. Through the ‘The Media Accountability Project’, he plans to sue people and organizations who have lied on him in court to prevent the spread of false narratives. He said the initiative will be a fund-raising tool.

Carlson told his guest he could not think of many people who had been on the "receiving end of so much sinister lying from so-called news organizations," which he added was not coverage, but advocacy to get the teen imprisoned.

When asked about the types of organizations he plans to pursue, View co-host Whoopi Goldberg was on the list. The 18-year-old, who was acquitted for the death of two people in a Kenosha, WI protest said, “Well, right now, we’re looking at quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes, Whoopi Goldberg’s on the list. She called me a murderer after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers.”

Goldberg openly disagreed with the verdict saying, “Even all the excuses in the world does not change the fact that three people got shot, two people were murdered.”

Rittenhouse will be raising money for the project to fight what he sees as false accusations in court. In the example of Goldberg's comment, it seems he would be challenging her First Amendment right to free speech. Goldberg was sharing an unsupportive opinion on a show that is about opposing perspectives.

He also wants to go after members of the media who he feels are misrepresenting him as a White Supremacist..

In admitting on the stand that he killed two protestors, Rittenhouse acknowledged that he is a murderer. The court decided he had a right under the law to protect himself. The verdict does not change his admission of the fact that he committed murder. He simply was not convicted for it.

Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster tweeted: "The courts have long established that calling somebody a 'murderer' is an opinion + a legal right, even after the person is found 'not guilty.' At that point, one can still call them a murderer, just not a 'convicted murderer.'

The conventional definition of a murderer from the Marriam Webster dictionary is simply "one who murders."

In a similar vein parents of the Covington Catholic students who were caught up in controversy in with a Native American elder reached a settlement with the Washington Post.