As we told you yesterday, ABC News' Jon Karl covered the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the upcoming funeral using some words that caught some attention:
ABC media personality Jon Karl says “the murder of Charlie Kirk was not a political act” pic.twitter.com/GtJErt6kbj
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) September 21, 2025
Dude, really?
In the longer clip, Karl also tried to make it sound like the horrible response from many on the Left to Kirk's assassination was just coming from an incredibly small number of people. We've also heard the "you didn't hear what you think you heard" approach taken quite a bit lately:
Here's what I actually said: pic.twitter.com/Uc4hgpaN8m
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) September 21, 2025
First off, let's address the media efforts to try and make the celebrations over Kirk's assassination out to be just coming from a very tiny fringe of the Left. It's actually much broader:
Since Kirk’s tragic assassination, Democrats have:
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 21, 2025
— Posted videos of themselves celebrating the murder online
— Used BluSky to discuss who they’d like to see murdered next
— 30+ Dem Reps voted against a resolution condemning political violence
— Rep. Omar celebrated Kirk’s… https://t.co/Uovjd9M1jb
Karl tries to present himself as an objective "journalist" but Joe Concha can't find a lot of evidence that isn't to the contrary:
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Jon Karl - three anti-Trump books as a White House correspondent - zero on Biden. Ask yourself why that is… https://t.co/DYqynBSLk3
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 22, 2025
One of Karl's fellow journos once infamously said "reporters don't take a side" but that's certainly not always true:
Yep. Jonathan totally doesn’t take a side or anything… https://t.co/SO04x2UtPs pic.twitter.com/30NgrSYhQa
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 22, 2025
We saw what these "journalists" did (or rather didn't) report over the previous four years so they can just take all the seats when it comes to pretending to be objective. Heck, many of them were active participants in spreading BS (the "cheap fakes" propaganda comes to mind).
It would be more honest to admit your political bias and look in the mirror. Please show tweets reporting Biden’s mental acuity the last 4 years. That is the litmus test Jon.
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) September 22, 2025
What you said was that “the murder of Charlie Kirk was not a political act, it was a gruesome crime” when it fact it was both a violent political act and a gruesome crime. https://t.co/uoNTPrlsgI
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) September 21, 2025
The media would rather everybody join the Left in making Jimmy Kimmel the real victim in all this.
