From Keith Olbermann's last podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/episode/kilmeade-kill-the-homeless-and-the-294278747/
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as I mentioned before the break, huge parts of Kirk's
world never saw the hate, literally never saw it. The
videos never came up on their feeds. This sounds insane,
but there it is Rick Pearlstein, history and the author
of Nixon Land, which I read to my father on
his deathbed. So maybe you should read it if you
have not. Rick pearlstein posted this Saturday night. I
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found it comes from Facebook, but I am a Luddite,
so to this day I have not had the patience
to try to find the author who wrote it on Facebook.
But it's amazing. I'm going to assume it's real. I
may be falling victim to an Internet hoax, but I
don't think so. I'd say the odds are only one
in one hundred.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
One thing that has become really clear is that we
live in at least two different realities. Talking to a
friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker
because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed
me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly
reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never
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seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence
against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his
remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated
for his violent act. She was horrified by a number
of things that he said, but she had never seen
or heard them before, the same as I had never
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seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like
a perfectly nice, loving man and father. Neither of us
had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he
was a known white supremacist, and she thought I was joking.
She talked about him giving a speech about finding your
purpose and doing good in the world, and I thought
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she was joking. Oh, and my friend had never heard
and God help me, I don't know how she escaped
the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota
legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife
and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over
their child to protect the child. The other couple who
somehow survived politically motivated attacks, specifically because they were Democrats.
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She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because
I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them, The kidnapping
plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor, the assassination attempt
against Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, all things Charlie had plenty
to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing
the Democratic Party. She didn't know about any of it
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because we are all living in two different worlds. And
the quote supplied by Rick Pearlstein, Facebook author unknown, it
boils down to this. In short, God knows how many
of Charlie Kirk's mourners and those planning, plotting, exacting revenge
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right now never ever have heard him say this:
Speaker 3 (41:49):
"I want to watch that execution. That'll make my day better.
I want to see him on a public block and
get him be publicly executed. And I think that would
be justice." "You think children should have, you should see it.
What is the age? What age should you start to
see public execution? Sixteen?"
Speaker 1 (42:06):
"I think I think you could do it earlier."
Speaker 3 (42:08):
"I think you maybe at age twelve".
Speaker 1 (42:10):
"Whenever it's great or so."
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Kirk describes King as quote a bad guy. It's true,
and Kirk's self described very very radical view that the
country made a mistake when it passed the Civil Rights
Act also true.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
As we note in.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
The piece, Kirk has previously described Kirk as a hero
and a civil rights icon. It's true, I used to
be wrong. What inspired Kirk to shift his view on MLK?
Why does Kirk think that MLK is a bad guy?
When Kirk says that MLKA says quote one good thing,
he didn't believe, what does he mean by that? Why
does Kirk believe passing the Civil Rights Act was a mistake?
"Now Again, apparently they don't listen to the show, because
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we do it at least once a week, right, once
a week we talked about why the Civil Rights Act
was a mistake."
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