Bob Unruh continued peddling misinformation in the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk in a Sept. 12 WorldNetDaily article:
[Utah Gov. Spencer] Cox also confirmed the political ideology the shooter took time to express – by cutting messages into the casings of the bullets in his gun.Those included “Hey fascist! Catch!” the report said, as well as “Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao,” the lyrics of an antifascist song.
Reports earlier confirmed that various ideological messages were found on bullets still in the apparent assassination rifle, which was found by authorities in a wooded area near the campus hours after the assassination.
The governor confirmed a “three-arrow symbol, an antifascist symbol made famous during street fights in Weimar Germany,” was found on the casing that was fired at Kirk.
Further, the fired casing referenced a nearly decade-old sexual meme, saying, ‘Notices bulge, OWO, what’s this?'” the report confirmed.
As we documented the last time Unruh did this — indeed, the above appears to have been lazily copied-and-pasted from an earlier article — all of those references are apparently to video games.
Meanwhile, WND continued to crank out loving tributes to Kirk, as well as bashing of his shooter or any critic of Kirk:
- Glenn Beck: Stop calling Charlie Kirk a ‘conservative activist’!
- ‘HE was the fascist’: Kirk shooting suspect facing murder charge that could result in death penalty
- STUNNING! Memorials erupt worldwide for American Charlie Kirk
- ‘Sick and twisted’: U.S. senator says ‘there must be consequences’ for people spewing hate and celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder
- ‘The truth will not be hidden, or buried or classified’: FBI is NOT ruling out co-conspirators in Charlie Kirk assassination
- WATCH: Packed house at Kennedy Center for Charlie Kirk vigil
- ‘They must be fired’: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy outraged by U.S. commercial pilots celebrating Charlie Kirk assassination
An anonymously written Sept. 13 article touted a protest in Great Britain that referenced Kirk:
At least 100,000 people flooded the streets for London Saturday for a “Unite the Kingdom” rally, taking the opportunity to honor slain American civil rights leader Charlie Kirk in the process.
As Fox News reported, the rally was organized by activist Tommy Robinson, who said a video shown about Kirk was to thank and “honor the life of one of our generation’s greatest.” Elon Musk also appeared via video link and condemned the left as “the party of murder” following Kirk’s death.
It was not mentioned that “Robinson” — real name: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon — is a hate-filled Islamophobe who is likely heading to prison for libel.
Another anonymously written article that day stated:
A young redheaded TikTokker, who goes by Ellie May on X, posted a video hoping it would get in front of the eyes of President Trump – and it has. The president posted it on his Truth Social account Saturday afternoon.
The woman pleads with the president to spearhead the passage of “The Charlie Kirk Act,” which would hold media companies accountable for lying to the American people.
She cites 2013 action by President Obama that repealed the 1948 Smit-Mundt Act, a law that prohibited propaganda in the media.
“Make it damn near impossible for these people to continue to lie to the American public, which has brought chaos, hatred and division all across the country,” she says.
Actually, that TikTok video is wrong about the Smith-Mundt act (which the article misspells). As PolitiFact detailed, the original act applied only to government organizations, not private corporations, and the act was modernized — not repealed — under Obama through a bipartisan effort.
Also, it’s ironic that WND would champion a law that penalizes the media for spreading lies given how much of WND’s content involves spreading lies or misinformation — like the above discredited claims about the writings on the bullet casings. Recall that WND settled a defamation lawsuit with a man it falsely accused of being a drug dealer.