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Ta-Nehisi Coates told Ezra Klein recently that “the truth of life was hate,” a brutal, sweeping judgment that landed like a curse on an already raw national wound. Megyn Kelly answered the sanctimonious sermon exactly how millions of Americans wanted someone to respond — she ripped into Coates and the media’s moral preening with blunt force, refusing to let elite opinionators sanitize violence by turning it into a virtue-signaling exercise.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025 while speaking at Utah Valley University, a killing that shocked the country and ignited a fierce debate about rhetoric, motive, and who is held accountable in the aftermath. Conservatives are not asking for cover for ugly language; they are asking for honest reporting, even when the truth does not fit the left’s preferred narrative about what fuels political violence.
Coates’s argument — and the Vanity Fair piece that fed it — was not an impartial reckoning so much as an ideological lob: recast Kirk as a caricature, then claim any mourning is stolen sympathy. That is exactly the kind of moral pretexting Kelly slammed; the left gets to write the obituary and score political points while conservatives are expected to sit quietly and accept being lectured about their own grief.
Megyn Kelly has been unmistakable in her defense of Kirk’s memory, stepping into his show and onto conservative stages to call out media hypocrisy and to make the case that a life’s work of stirring young people to civic engagement should not be erased by the political convenience of his opponents. She is not asking for a whitewashing of past fights; she is demanding basic fairness from those who traffic in moral absolutes when it suits them and recoil when the consequences touch their side.
Meanwhile, the media reaction has been predictably inconsistent: commentators and columnists who celebrated or minimized the killing face firings and backlash when conservatives push back, while others who seized on the moment to smear activists skate free. That double standard is not an accident; it is part of a broader pattern in which institutions police speech selectively and then feign shock when conservatives refuse to be shamed into silence.
Hardworking Americans see what is happening and they are not fooled. We can mourn a life taken in cold blood and still insist on truth about that life. We can reject political violence while calling out the commentators who weaponize funerals for partisan gain. If the left wants to rewrite history, let them do the work honestly; if the right must defend its heroes, then defend them without apology and keep fighting for a media that treats every victim and every accusation with the same standard, not the one that best suits a narrative.
