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edbermac

(16,341 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:54 PM Sep 14

Fox News Howard Kurtz Declares Charlie Kirk 'Wasn't a Saint'

A Fox News host drew fire from inside the network for suggesting that conservatives may be going too far in their efforts to immortalize far-right activist Charlie Kirk after he was brutally murdered earlier this week.

“Charlie Kirk was not a saint,” network mainstay Howard Kurtz said during a Sunday panel on his show, Media Buzz. “He said two years ago, it’s worth [it] to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so we can have the Second Amendment,” he went on, adding that “his murder makes this feel like a very dangerous time.”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/fox-news-war-as-host-declares-charlie-kirk-wasn-t-a-saint/ar-AA1MwJtY


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underpants

(193,171 posts)
2. I thought I read that he'd already been fired.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:00 PM
Sep 14

Maybe they were planning to. They definitely are now.

choie

(6,123 posts)
3. Hey Kurtz
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:00 PM
Sep 14

maybe you shouldn't be part of a network that foments hatred, bigotry and violence.

Cha

(314,559 posts)
4. What was HK thinking?!
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:04 PM
Sep 14

and on the station that makes saints out of Treasonous Murdering, Thieving, Rapist, Asshole Felons?

Vogon_Glory

(10,064 posts)
5. For a Faux Noise talking head, that's brave
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:09 PM
Sep 14

(Which isn’t much). It’s also more than the so-called “liberal media” has done. (Hi, CBS! Hi, ABC! Hi, CNN! Hi, NBC!). Still, I wonder if his bosses will force him to make a groveling retraction.

Maru Kitteh

(30,700 posts)
15. You can count on that like the sun rising in the east.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 01:49 PM
Sep 15

Pointing out Kirk was not Teh Christ will be a much greater sin.

Cha

(314,559 posts)
9. Yeah, the one on MSNBC got Fired.. Matthew Dowd..
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:38 PM
Sep 14

I did read this about ABC & NBC today...

Here's a couple of mainstream outlets telling the truth


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220641518

RockRaven

(18,052 posts)
6. Lazy man out here using the normal FUX script even though it's a rich white guy this time.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:09 PM
Sep 14

"not a saint" is a strictly controlled term of art in that media space, meaning "it's fine, never mind, move along" or thereabouts.

Skittles

(167,646 posts)
11. oh please, let them proceed
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 12:07 AM
Sep 15

let the ENTIRE WORLD know just what American conservatives WORSHIP

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