The Media Research Center continued to crank out lionization of Charlie Kirk and hatred of anyone who criticized him:
- Charlie Kirk: ‘Diversify Thought on Campus,’ the ‘Least Diverse Place in America’
- Kirk’s Assassination: The Left’s Big Denial
- ABC’s Jon Karl: ‘The Murder of Charlie Kirk Was Not a Political Act’
- Rev. Franklin Graham: ‘Thank You Lord!,’ Charlie Kirk’s Memorial ‘Was a Revival!’
- BRAINWORMS: MSNBC Reporter Needlessly Pits Erika Kirk Against Trump
- NewsBusters Podcast: Tilt on Kirk’s Service, House Biden-Decline Probe
- VILE: Don Lemon Smears Charlie Kirk Service as ‘White Nationalism,’ Fake Christianity
- ‘Weird, Egregious’: Mets Announcer Rips Cubs Rookie for Attending Charlie Kirk Memorial
P.J. Gladnick grumbled in a Sept. 19 post:
The New Yorker magazine used to be a showcase for great writers. That was many years ago. More recently it has become a cesspool of mediocre writers striving with great urgency to promote their leftist agendas. And the latest such example of a New Yorker writer crawling deep into the sewer came on Wednesday with this smear masquerading as a story by Kyle Chayka, “Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds.”
To say that Chayka sickeningly attempted to put Charlie Kirk and his assassin on the same moral plane, as inferred by the story title, is to give him too much credit. As you will see, Chayka not very subtly promotes the depraved notion that Kirk was morally worse than the assassin.
[…]Wow! Ostensibly comparing Charlie Kirk with his assassin appears to have just been a cover for Chayka’s true motive: to lash out at Kirk.
Gladnick didn’t explain why Kirk is suddenly above criticism. Meanwhile, Clay Waters spent a Sept. 20 post denying that Kirk’s alleged killer can’t be as easily pigeonholed as the ideological leftist he and his employer want him to be:
NPR’s “domestic extremism” correspondent Odette Yousef once again muddied the waters after an ideologically motivated shooting, this time in order to avoid having to blame the left for the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Yousef’s Thursday morning filing at NPR.org came with the headline: “Why was Kirk killed? Evidence paints complicated picture of alleged assassin.”
[…]So the bullet casings saying “Hey fascist! Catch!” isn’t a clue? Another referred to a song “Bella Ciao,” which celebrated the end of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. These scream “anti-fascist,” or “Antifa.”
Wrong — as we’ve noted, those messages actually scream “spent too much time online playing video games.” Still, Waters whined:
To counter that strong argument for Robinson’s leftism, Yousef rounded up some incredibly unconvincing counterpoints. The 22-year-old is not registered to vote and hasn’t issued any statements about labor rights!
[…]After a dive into online videogame culture and a thankfully brief discussion of “furries,” delivered with the strong implication that the shooter’s in-jokes and memes had no ideological content, Yousef claimed to have uncovered a pattern of mass shooters working from a “cultural script….But in those cases, the attackers typically lacked any political or ideological motive, instead striving to be remembered among figures who had committed similar atrocities in the past.”
In other words: No left-wingers here!
Waters offered no coherent rebuttal of the article’s claims about the killer.
Waters returned for a Sept. 23 post complaining that the obvious — the Trump administration is using Kirk’s death to crack down on dissent — was pointed out:
Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic featured regular roundtable journalist Vivian Salama of The Atlantic sitting in as moderator for Jeffrey Goldberg, and the topic was the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or rather, the GOP’s supposedly frightening and hypocritical reactions to Kirk’s assassination.
[…]Guest host Salama took it further, perverting the failure of universities to protect the rights of Jewish students, into a crackdown on “dissent,” as if being nasty toward an assassination victim and attacking Jews on campus were just examples of peaceful protest.
Again, Waters offered no coherent response to the central claim.