No matter which way someone feels about
Charlie Kirk being killed it is sickening to listen to the media studiously avoid the truth about the things he said and did. I caught just a bit of the programs this morning and my heavens they weren't even calling him "controversial" which would have been the most muted label if they were trying to be factual.
Instead I got a solid half hour of how he was beloved and was a champion for inviting people to "debate" their ideas. The various talking heads were twisting themselves in knots to "both sides" political violence. MSNBC even had some clown on yesterday as an expert who claimed political violence is almost entirely a thing of the left. No push-back from the host of course. The big lie just left to sit there and be taken as fact by some moron sitting on a couch with his hat on.
If "Morning Joe" had been around on radio when Mussolini was executed I can easily tell they would have avoided any "difficult" discussion about Benito and they would have just described him as "a man trying to bring the nation to greater heights".
Just in case some think I'm making a "like for like comparison" of course Charlie was a far lesser figure than Benito and I'm not equating the two but just threw Benito in there to illustrate how mealy mouthed most of the people at MSNBC have become.
Enough already. A human being was killed and it is a horrible thing. But that human being needs to be accurately described and not have their "career" whitewashed by the media as though it's a massive gaslighting campaign. You can accurately talk about some of the things he said and did without dwelling on it endlessly and it is not speaking ill of the dead person to do so. It would be accurate reporting without being sensational, insensitive or mocking.
When media acts the way they are now it does mock the individual since it negates the reality of the deceased as they are used for an agenda by the media rather than an accurate description of reality.
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