I repeat. We have freedom of speech in this country and that includes being able to talk about and be against the bigotry and racism he espoused. I don’t usually watch any corporate news any more but I did go turn on CNN for a bit to see if the killer was found… because I want to see justice and accountability. But I had to turn it off after about 10 minutes because NO ONE was talking about the offensive things Kirk had said, quoted him, nothing. I understand not necessarily wanting to pile on someone that had been murdered, but it looked like a cheering section for this man who believed some odious things. So I turned it off. Later that day I read that, on MSNBC, Matthew Dowd was fired for actually expressing an opinion and quoting what Kirk has said. So, checking MSNBC off my list, although honestly, I didn’t watch them much anyway. I mostly watched CBS until they decided to give Trump a bribe and also NOT stand up for what actually is true. As James O’Brien said “Why would you not want me to find out what he stood for?” Incidentally, the person may actually have been caught , I see a press conference video shown by Chris Norlund that apparently is going to announce shortly.
I feel like the sanitizing of Kirk’s politics is sometimes an effort to create an idealized victim in order to bolster renunciations of political violence and sometimes simple ignorance about his actual politics.
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) September 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Incidentally, you have to wonder why Republicans, who have now shown themselves to be supportive of pedophiles, do not actively call out how awful Kirk was instead of trying to deity him. Of course a bunch of them deified Trump, who is as far away from god as one person could be. What stumps me, like James O Brien below, is why, especially in America where we have the first amendment, there would be so many attempts, particularly on *news* media, to stifle the facts about unethical people.
It’s amusing to watch these legacy media outlets try and softly eulogize Kirk while simultaneously not playing many, if any at all, clips of him actually talking about anything. Almost as if there’s a huge disparity between how they’re revisioning him and his actual opinions.
— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@wapplehouse.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
As O’Brien says Who are the THEY? Nobody even knows who killed Kirk, at least as of yesterday, but the knives were out to avenge the *they* and declaring war? Fox is just the worst full of bullcrap baloney but they cross the line when they encourage, themselves, political violence on others.
MSNBC fires political analyst Matthew Dowd for having a thoughtful and rational take.
— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.
— C. Robert Cargill (@crobertcargill.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If you were a part of this chorus or didn’t speak out against this kind of hate-mongering when Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked, I could care less what you think now about how “the left” is reacting to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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The murder of Charlie Kirk is terrible for our country. Violence is not the answer. To learn from this, let's not fictionalize who Kirk was. A day before his death, he said: "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America." That's not respectful speech. That's violent rhetoric.
— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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My own hero has always been Bernie Sanders and I think this country would have been much better had he been elected president some years back.
If you're celebrating the killing of Charlie Kirk, you've failed basic love of country & basic human decency. If you're using the killing of Charlie Kirk to attack certain groups of people & to declare “war on the left,” you've failed basic love of country & basic human decency.
— Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Uh…… All About Trump, eh, while spending taxpayer money for his own benefit.
Trump on Charlie Kirk: "Oh, when I heard it? I was in the midst of building a great — for 150 years they've wanted a ballroom at the White House, right? They have to use tents for President Xi when he comes over. If it rains, it's a wipeout. And so I was with the architects … "
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Donald Trump Pours Gas on a Dangerous Fire
Unsurprisingly, Trump used the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk to further the divide in the country
President Trump had the opportunity to speak to our better angels—to try to heal the wounds on both sides of our bitterly divided politics. But of course he didn’t do that. It’s telling that no one thought he would do what almost every other president would have done in this moment.
Instead, Trump poured gas on a burning fire. Even though we still don’t know who killed Kirk or the motivations behind the assassination, Trump blamed the “Radical Left” not just for Kirk’s murder but for the recent spate of political violence in America:
For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.
My Administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country. From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical left
Trump ignored very recent political violence coming from the Right—including the murder of a Minnesota elected official in her home—because it didn’t fit his chosen political narrative. Given that Trump enabled one of the largest examples of mass political violence in recent history and then pardoned and promoted those responsible, last night was an obvious opportunity to look inward. But then again, no one is more devoid of the capacity for introspection than Donald J. Trump.
