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The cowardly rush to smear Charlie Kirk as a one-dimensional villain collapsed under its own weight when Megyn Kelly laid out what any fair-minded person could see: Kirk was trying to have real conversations about race and he treated Black Americans with respect in private and in public. Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025 shocked the nation and forced a brutal reckoning about how the media and the left weaponize words instead of confronting ideas.
Two days before he was gunned down, Kirk and CNN commentator Van Jones were trading harsh words about a tragic murder in Charlotte; Jones publicly accused Kirk of race-baiting on air, and then, after Kirk’s death, revealed a private direct message in which Kirk invited him to come on his show and have a civil debate. That DM—the last political olive branch Kirk extended—tells you everything you need to know about the man the media spent years caricaturing.
Megyn Kelly rightly called out the performative hypocrisy on the left: the same pundits who piled on Kirk’s most provocative lines are now pretending to be shocked and grief-stricken, waving op-eds as if they mysteriously discovered his decency only after a killer’s bullet made him a martyr. This isn’t sympathy, it’s reputation management, and Americans should be sick of it.
If you want evidence that Kirk wasn’t the cartoon version his critics painted, look at who showed up to defend him and what people who actually knew him said. Black journalists and conservatives like Sage Steele publicly mourned a man who pushed them to think harder, and Van Jones’s own release of Kirk’s DM proves Kirk reached across the aisle the day before he died. Megyn Kelly also reminded viewers that Kirk studied Black intellectual traditions and cited thinkers who question the modern welfare-driven narrative about race.
Don’t be fooled by the furious list of selected quotes the mainstream press has been wheeling out; context matters, and conservative voices know Kirk’s mission was to challenge prevailing orthodoxies on campus and to introduce young people to alternative ideas, not to incite violence. The left’s preferred playbook has been to caricature and cancel, then pretend they never meant harm when consequences land. That pattern is now painfully apparent.
There has also been a disgusting strain of celebration from the far left online and on some campuses, and that raw hatred demands condemnation from every American who loves free speech and the rule of law. We can disagree fiercely about ideas without pretending those disagreements justify threats, harassment, or worse; anyone who cheered on violence should be publicly shamed and politically answered at the ballot box. The country cannot survive if speech becomes pretext for bloodshed.
Megyn Kelly’s defense of Kirk was more than cable news theater; it was a clarion call reminding conservatives that our movement stands for debate, dignity, and the defense of the vulnerable, even when the media wants us silent. The way Kirk reached out to Van Jones the day before he died is a challenge to every patriot: double down on civil argument, not on posthumous virtue signaling.
Now is the time for conservatives to stop playing defense and start shaping the story. Remember the facts, speak the truth about the treatment Charlie Kirk received from the press, and refuse to be cowed by an outrage machine that rewards the loudest mob. Our job is to honor his willingness to debate, to protect free speech, and to make sure his death becomes a moment of American renewal, not a reason to be quiet.
