{"id":1011436,"date":"2021-11-14T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1011436"},"modified":"2021-11-14T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:13:48","slug":"gasland-director-josh-fox-triggered-by-kyle-rittenhouses-face-says-teen-murdered-my-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gasland-director-josh-fox-triggered-by-kyle-rittenhouses-face-says-teen-murdered-my-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Gasland&#039; Director Josh Fox Triggered by Kyle Rittenhouse&#039;s Face, Says Teen &#039;Murdered My Brothers&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgasland-director-josh-fox-triggered-by-kyle-rittenhouses-face-says-teen-murdered-my-brothers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1011436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-617317752-inset-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Left-wing documentary director Josh Fox pleaded with Twitter users on Friday to stop showing Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s face because, in his view, the Illinois teenager \u201cmurdered my brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox, who is the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2013\/01\/11\/fracknation-powerful-response-to-anti-fracking-hysteria\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debunked<\/a> anti-fracking documentary <i>Gasland<\/i> and eventually downgraded to a contributor for The Young Turks, immediately saw his content policing backfire with a wave of pro-Rittenhouse memes in the replies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The filmmaker insisted that he \u201cneeded\u201d everyone to start posting \u201cwarnings\u201d in posts containing images of the teenager who is standing trial in Wisconsin. Fox is so triggered by the images of Rittenhouse that he is demanding that other Twitter users stop posting them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need you all to start posting warnings on any post with Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s face on it,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe man murdered my brothers. I don\u2019t wanna see his face. Stop posting his face.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.2765957446809\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I need you all to start posting warnings on any post with Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s face on it. <\/p>\n<p>The man murdered my brothers. I don\u2019t wanna see his face. Stop posting his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Fox #BanFrackingNow (@joshfoxfilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshfoxfilm\/status\/1459282846711963663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fox\u2019s plea for fewer Rittenhouse photos backfired spectacularly. At the time of this writing, he has been extensively \u201cratioed\u201d \u2014 a term for when a post on Twitter has significantly more replies than likes, indicating powerful backlash \u2014 with over 1,000 replies (direct responses and quote-retweets) and only 37 likes.<\/p>\n<p>His detractors have posted endless memes of Rittenhouse\u2019s likeness looking smug, heroic, or happy. One common reply is a gif of Rittenhouse straightening his tie during the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Others attacked the propagandist for his \u201cbrothers\u201d comment, pointing out that Joseph Rosenbaum, one of the men that Rittenhouse killed, was charged with sexually molesting five pre-pubescent children before pleading down to fewer charges.<\/p>\n<p>The day before this humiliation, Fox declared that Rittenhouse \u201ckilled innocents,\u201d that he was guilty of \u201cterrorism,\u201d and \u201cAmerica is on trial with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.651376146789\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember this:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KyleRittenhouseIsGuilty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KyleRittenhouseIsGuilty<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s just like all the other murderous motherfuckers who founded this country. <\/p>\n<p>He killed innocents.  <br \/>He claimed to be fighting for America. <\/p>\n<p>But what he was really doing was terrorism. <\/p>\n<p>America is on trial with him. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/guilty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#guilty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Fox #BanFrackingNow (@joshfoxfilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshfoxfilm\/status\/1458687591948169221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rittenhouse was arrested for shooting three men \u2014 two fatally \u2014 during a 2020 Black Lives Matter riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His murder&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/11\/defense-rests-in-kyle-rittenhouse-trial\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trial<\/a>&nbsp;is heading towards closing arguments this week. A major moment in the testimony came when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/08\/watch-prosecution-appears-to-fall-apart-as-rittenhouse-victim-admits-he-pulled-gun-first\/\">Gaige Grosskreutz<\/a>, the man who Rittenhouse only wounded, admitted under cross-examination that he was not shot at until he pointed a gun at the teen and advanced toward him.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing documentary director Josh Fox pleaded with Twitter users on Friday to stop showing Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s face because, in his view, the Illinois teenager \u201cmurdered my brothers.\u201d Fox, who is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}