It only took me a day after his death to start seeing the left-wing conspiracy theories on my social-media feed, with people sharing posts that claimed that MAGA activist Charlie Kirk was killed by someone on his own side.
According to a recent survey carried out by YouGov, 33 per cent of Democrats say that Kirk’s killer was motivated by right-wing beliefs. Only 10 per cent of Democrats appear to accept what is thus far the most likely scenario: that the suspect saw Kirk as a political opponent.
It isn’t hard to see where this wanton ignorance is coming from. Indeed, ever since Kirk’s death there has been a concerted effort by prominent left-wing and mainstream media figures to obscure the political leanings of the suspect, Tyler Robinson.
Take Keith Edwards, a former Democratic spin doctor who has over 800,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. On 12 September, two days after the shooting, Edwards made the following claim in a video that has more than 800,000 views:
‘It is looking more and more like this is someone who is far right, very online… Maybe what is called a Groyper… Groypers are a group of alt-right white nationalists and Christian-nationalist activists.’
Edwards even claimed that some of the etchings on the suspect’s weapon were ‘symbols of far-right ideology’.
The Daily Beast, a prominent liberal outlet, also published a disturbingly dishonest piece on the same day, with a headline blaring: ‘Charlie Kirk’s suspect’s grandma says family all MAGA.’ The piece quoted Utah governor Spencer Cox as saying Robinson had ‘become more political in recent years’, leaving the reader to imply that his politics were conservative.
Had the reporter bothered to contact Cox, she would have discovered the opposite to be the case. Indeed, Cox was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the day after the Daily Beast article was published, saying that he believed Robinson was ‘deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology’.
Progressives are so deeply trapped in their bubble that they are completely unaware of what even the left of center legacy media are reporting.
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