BREAKING: Fox News host Howard Kurtz enrages MAGA viewers by admitting that Charlie Kirk "was not a saint" despite the desperate Republican efforts to compare him to MLK Jr. and even Jesus.
We cannot allow these liars to whitewash his legacy...
"Whether you like Charlie Kirk or not this is an absolute national tragedy as I said and I never mention the names of these people because they crave attention and I don't want to give it to them," said host Howard Kurtz.
"But do you think the media, some in the media, are politicizing this by blaming the left or 'liberal lunatics' for the actions of someone who's obviously insane?" Kurtz asked his guest.
"No, I don't think so," said far-right investigative editor Sarah Bedford of the conservative Washington Examiner. "I think all available evidence related to the suspect suggests that this was a person who was radicalized by a leftist ideology, every piece of evidence that authorities have released."
In truth, we still don't know the alleged assassin's motives or ideology. Republicans, including Donald Trump, rushed to blame the "radical left" for Kirk's assassination before a suspect was even in custody. They are desperate to blame this attack on liberals because it allows them to avoid talking about America's horrific gun problem.
"If the media's going to have an honest conversation about radicalization, where it's happening, how it's happening and who it's happening to, it has to be acknowledged that extremism isn't necessarily evenly distributed across the political spectrum," Bedford said, accidentally telling the truth. Extremism is NOT evenly distributed. In reality, most shooters and domestic terrorists are far-right and the statistics back it up.
According to the libertarian Cato Institute, right-wing ideology has accounted for 11% of politically motivated terror attacks in the United States since 1975. Only 2% of them were motivated by left-wing ideology. In other words, right-wingers have killed more than fives time as many people in that time.
"And that the left does have a radicalization problem that has not been spoken about proportionally in the media as the extremism on the right," Bedford lied. "And it does exist, there is violent extremism on both sides. It is not proportionate and in order to have an honest conversation about what led to this moment, that has to focus in part on the left."
"I'm glad that you mentioned that it's not unique to one side or one party," said Kurtz. "Charlie Kirk was not a saint. He said two years ago, it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so we can have the Second Amendment. But his murder makes us feel like a very dangerous time.”
Kirk certainly was not a saint and regularly engaged in racist, xenophobic, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. That doesn't t mean that he deserved to die, but it does mean that we have a responsibility to tell the truth about what he was saying. That responsibility extends to the motive of the shooter and there is evidence that he was angry that Kirk wasn't right-wing enough.
Some of the reporting indicates that the shooter may have been part of the far-right groyper movement led by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. He inscribed his bullets with meme references popular amongst that movement. If this assassin was indeed a groyper, it means that not only is this not a left-wing problem, it's a right-wing civil war. Conservatives are so violent that they're now turning on each other.
This guys gonna get fired from fox.
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