This has been a brutal week for most of us on the Right, but there is still a need to address the coverage of the murder of Charlie Kirk. The media has been a central factor in this disgusting development, as their narratives have fed the intolerance seen across the country and provoked the acceptance of violence as a means of expression.
From the early moments when we became aware of the shooting on Wednesday, there were examples of the press behaving in an unhinged fashion. The need to spin and massage details was evident and disturbing. Then, in the wake of Charlie’s death, the press was immediately in the mode of wanting to silence the Right.
Just prior to the Kirk shooting, news outlets fostered this environment by wanting to ignore another murder, this one on a commuter rail line where a black male knifed a white woman to death. The press had to be dragged into reporting on this narrative-bursting killing, and then the desperate attempt to reframe the details showed there is a fluid standard regarding murder, based on political expedience.
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Matthew Dowd could not be a decent human after the assassination.
Before Charlie’s fate was even known, Katy Tur had to speculate that President Trump would politicize the shooting.
On CBS, host Nate Burleson wants the GOP to pipe down.
Jen Psaki was unsurprisingly inept as she blamed President Trump for increasing tensions.
At the skeptical hive of villainy Bluesky, management had to rein in the hateful comments from users.
The media have been forced to cover the murder of a Ukrainian woman on a North Carolina commuter train, after trying to bury the story.
Van Jones was despicable in denying the details of the train murder, as well as blaming Charlie Kirk for making it a racial story.
