Radio host wants guns, ‘patriots’ at protests
McKenna defended accused ‘militia’ shooter
Nearly all public officials were calling for peace and calm in Kenosha after two individuals were gunned down during protests over the Jacob Blake police shooting over the weekend.
Not conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna.
On her Wednesday show, McKenna came to the defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, Illinois, who was charged in Lake County, Illinois, as a fugitive from justice. Rittenhouse faces a first-degree intentional homicide charge in Kenosha County.
“Go watch the video of that kid,” said McKenna, who airs on WISN-AM (1130) in Milwaukee and WIBA-AM (1310) in Madison. “I’d have done the same thing. But he’s being painted as a murderer!”
Yikes. Let’s hope a 52-year-old radio host would have better instincts than a 17-year-old carrying an AR-15 in a highly combustible situation.
But McKenna was just getting started. She chided “patriots” for not taking to the street as counter-protesters in Kenosha this week.
“By the way, where are all the patriots who brag on Facebook, ‘Hey, bring it, baby! Lock and load!’ Where the hell were you last night?” McKenna asked. “Some showed up to defend other people’s property or their own. And one guy is now going to have to go on trial because, in defense of himself, two people are dead.”
At the end of the 10-minute rant, McKenna, whose career took off while fighting the recall of former Gov. Scott Walker, urged members of the “militia” to hit the streets to defend people and property.
“So I ask you before I go to break, have you cleaned your guns lately? Do you have enough ammo?” she asked. “Are you going to prepare by finding that old set of white sheets so that you can raise the flag of surrender? Or are you going to be ready to defend your property, your people, against the imminent violence being unleashed by people whose end game is total destruction of our way of life?