How embarrassing for the book publisher.
A new book written by an author previously associated with National Geographic falsely claims Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager from Illinois who defended his life last year after being violently attacked by a white convicted pedophile and two other people, actually murdered two black men.
It's insane to think that an editor and a fact-checker both very likely read this book before it was published and nobody bothered to correct the glaring error.
National Geographic author and Egyptologist Kara Cooney falsely claimed Kyle Rittenhouse killed "two black men" with a semiautomatic weapon in her new book The Good Kings, which covers how ancient Egyptian history manages to get political and discusses Rittenhouse's trial.
"Consider Kyle Rittenhouse, who used his semiautomatic weapon to kill two Black men in Kenosha, Wisconsin while waging a glorious war on behalf of his inherited White power," the book reads.
One America News Network's Kara McKinney posted a screenshot of the book's page containing the false claim.
"I’m literally wheezing this is so funny this is the last chapter of 'Good Kings' by Egyptologist Kara Cooney. I’ll say this delicately… she’s not the brightest and it shows," McKinney tweeted.
Cooney replied to the tweet with an apology for the error, explaining it wasn't caught before publishing.
"Yes. This was my mistake. And caught too late for printing. Apologies. I stand by the sentiment of white supremacy, however," Cooney tweeted in response.
Rittenhouse shot three white men in self-defense during the Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots. Two of the men he shot died from the gunfire. In November, a jury found Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts.
Several voices in the media made similar false claims about the men Rittenhouse shot being black.