This is from
FactCheck.org which is definitely left of center:
"Since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media users have shared posts showing, quoting or paraphrasing remarks the posts attribute to the conservative activist. Many readers have asked us to provide the facts on whether Kirk, the founder of the youth political group Turning Point USA, made several of these comments.
"We’ll review some of the statements that our readers asked about and correct a viral social media post that got what Kirk said wrong.
"While he did say many of the statements, some have been misrepresented or not presented with full context."
Some are outright lies:
"A popular post on X incorrectly claimed that Kirk used a slur for Asian people.
“That time Charlie Kirk called an Asian woman in the audience ‘c—-’ multiple times,” the post reads, spelling out the slur in full, and accompanied by a montage video from TikTok. “He made millions off of his racism and sexism.”
"The video, however, does not show Kirk using the slur. Rather, as an X Community Note explains, Kirk was shouting at Cenk Uygur, a co-host of the Young Turks, a progressive online news show, and using his first name. The two men were at Politicon, an annual nonpartisan political convention, in October 2018.
“I live like a capitalist every single day, Cenk!” Kirk said angrily to Uygur, after Uygur interrupted a debate Kirk was having with the Young Turks’ Hasan Piker about what political views young people should have. “Come on, Cenk, let’s go,” he said later. "
Some are statements made to get across a political point:
"Another reader asked, presumably based on other online posts, “When Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked with a hammer, did Kirk encourage his audience to contribute to bail out [the] attacker?”
"Yes, he did. In the Oct. 31, 2022, episode of his show (at around 53:00 in the video), Kirk said the attack on Paul Pelosi was “awful” and “not right,” but he said that someone should bail out the assailer, David DePape, because cashless bail policies in certain cities allowed other people to commit crimes and be released from custody pending trial.
“And why is he still in jail? Why has he not been bailed out?” Kirk asked. “By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out. I bet his bail’s like 30[,000] or 40,000 bucks. Bail him out, and then go ask him some questions.”
“I’m not qualifying it. I think it’s awful. It’s not right,” Kirk said about the attack on Pelosi, who suffered a skull fracture after being hit in the head with a hammer. “But why is it that in Chicago you’re able to commit murder and be out the next day? Why is it that you’re able to trespass, second-degree murder, arson, threaten a public official, cashless bail. This happens all over San Francisco. But if you go after the Pelosis, oh, you’re [not] let out immediately. Got it.”
A few were clumsy statements that have been twisted as evidence that the very pro-Israel Kirk was antisemitic.
Of course, people who let social media tell them what to think accept wild claims without trying to verify them.
