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Categories: Analysis
September 24, 2025

After Charlie Kirk's passing, public figures and mainstream media outlets have twisted his words to fit their narratives. From AOC to the squad, from Stephen King to The New York Times, critics have taken Charlie's statements out of context to paint him as hateful, homophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic. But the receipts tell a different story. When you examine the full context of Charlie's words, a completely different picture emerges, one of someone who welcomed gay conservatives into the movement, defended Second Amendment rights while acknowledging complexity, critiqued the misuse of civil rights legislation, and called out actual anti-Semitism. This examination of the record sets straight the most viral misrepresentations being spread about what Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

Setting the Record Straight

Many people have been spreading falsehoods about what Charlie Kirk said and stood for. Public figures like AOC and Ilhan Omar, along with members of the squad, have been twisting his words to fit their own narratives. Memes have been circulating with misleading claims. But the truth is documented, and context matters. To make Charlie sound like a hateful person, you have to take him out of context. The full record reveals something entirely different.

Now that Charlie is not alive to defend himself, it's important to share the actual context with friends and anyone on the internet who wants to misrepresent what he said.

The Stephen King Claim About Stoning Gays

One viral claim came from Stephen King, who wrote: "He advocated stoning gays to death. Just saying." This has been circulating widely, but it's completely misleading.

Charlie actually criticized people for cherry-picking Bible verses. He took issue with YouTube star Miss Rachel for citing God's wish for Christians to "love thy neighbor" in Leviticus, suggesting that should include accepting all behaviors. Charlie's response was: "By the way, Miss Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser reference, part of the same part of scripture in Leviticus 18 is that thou shalt not thou shalt lay with another man shall be stoned to death."

Charlie wasn't advocating for stoning anyone. He was pointing out the inconsistency of cherry-picking verses from the same book of the Bible.

What Charlie Actually Said About the Gay Community

Here's what Charlie actually said about gay people: "I believe marriage is one man, one woman. Also, gay people should be welcome in the conservative movement. As Christians, we are called to love everyone. I will always stand against people who wish to establish their own personal views as a reason to kick others out of our movement."

Charlie had a long history of engaging in kind debates and conversations with gay people. In one exchange with a gay conservative, Charlie welcomed him into the conservative movement and said:

"First of all, welcome to the conservative movement. I don't think you should introduce yourself just based on your sexual attraction. You are a complete human being and I'm sure you treat people well and you're studying something. I want to get away with this idea that you're gay anything. We have gone a long way in the negative direction in this country where we act as if the most important part of your identity is what you do in the bedroom. It doesn't mean that much to me. But if you ask from a perspective as a Christian, I don't agree with that lifestyle. But politics is about addition and multiplication. I imagine you agree with a lot of what we talk about, right? Strong borders, strong country. And for that, we welcome you into the conservative movement."

Where's the hate in that statement? Where's the hateful rhetoric? Where's the judgment? Charlie literally welcomed him into his movement.

The Second Amendment Misrepresentation

Another claim suggested that Charlie getting shot was ironic because of his Second Amendment stance. A Syracuse University professor stated: "Charlie Kirk said it was worth it to have quote a few gun deaths each year so that we can have the second amendment. He called those deaths prudent and a rational deal. Him dying this way seems both ironic and in line with his own politics."

Here's what Charlie actually said in full context:

"We need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero. It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have an honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one. You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. But I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other god-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

Charlie understood the importance of an armed society. He understood that making guns illegal doesn't make murder more illegal—criminals will always find ways to get weapons on the black market. He recognized the importance of someone having the ability to protect themselves from the bad guy with the gun.

The Racist Claims About the Civil Rights Act

Critics claimed Charlie Kirk was racist and against desegregation in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Here's what Charlie actually said:

"The parts of the Civil Rights Act were great, but the way it's now being implemented to force men and female bathrooms to push forward the trans agenda, the intent of the Civil Rights Act is way beyond what it was originally authored for. The intent was noble, which was to say that no American can be not allowed into a place of business based on the color of their skin or their ethnic heritage. Totally in agreement with that. That's not what the law only did. It created a massive anti-racist DEI army that then gave us affirmative action. Recently Merrick Garland sued using the Civil Rights Act saying that we cannot have voter ID in certain states because it's a violation of the Civil Rights Act. So basically what the civil rights act did is that it went beyond disparate impact and then went to disparate effect in the sense where if black Americans are not doing as well as white Americans in a certain category, you can now use the Civil Rights Act and say that's a violation of the Civil Rights Act even though there might be other contributing factors. So it's too broad, too wide, and it's now doing a lot of damage to the country. It's being used well beyond its original intent."

That's a pretty straightforward policy critique. It doesn't sound like blatant racism.

In another clip, Charlie spoke about the black community: "Unfortunately, in the black community, dads are the most absent of any community. About two-thirds of all black youth will be raised without a stable father around. And that little precious angel of yours deserves to have a father around."

He called a black baby a "precious angel" while discussing the importance of fathers in the home. Not exactly the words of a racist.

The New York Times Anti-Semitism Lie

The New York Times told their readers that Charlie Kirk was anti-Semitic. They claimed that Charlie said: "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." They attributed this to Charlie Kirk on his podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show, in 2023.

Except he was actually critiquing that quote from someone else. What Charlie actually said before reading it was: "Half of this tweet is true, half of it I don't like."

The New York Times had to issue a correction on September 11, 2025: "An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an anti-semitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement."

The damage was already done. It's hard to believe that wasn't intentional.

Share the Truth

Please share this with friends who are spreading incorrect information about Charlie Kirk. Make sure they know that he is not here to defend himself, and that all of these claims are wrong and taken out of context to fuel a hateful agenda. The receipts are clear when you examine the full context of what Charlie actually said.

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Video Transcript

[00:00] As I said earlier, there are a lot of

[00:01] people lying about the things that

[00:03] Charlie Kirk said and stood for and

[00:07] represented. And I showed you earlier

[00:09] how, you know, you've got AOC, you've

[00:11] got Ilan Omar, you've got the the squad

[00:14] trying to twist his words to their own

[00:16] sick narratives. And I see it a lot of

[00:17] memes floating around, too. But here's

[00:19] the thing. We have the receipts and we

[00:22] have what's called context.

[00:25] Cuz to make Charlie sound like a hateful

[00:27] person, you'd have to take him out of

[00:29] context. But we have the context. So

[00:31] please share this with any of your

[00:33] friends or any trolls on the

[00:36] internet who want to misrepresent what

[00:38] Charlie said now that he is not alive to

[00:41] defend himself. Let's start with Stephen

[00:43] King. This one's been going around a

[00:45] lot. He advocated stoning gays to death.

[00:48] Just saying. He was uh you know, Charlie

[00:51] was actually criticized uh he he

[00:54] criticized people for cherrypicking

[00:56] Bible verses. He criticized the uh

[00:59] YouTube star Miss Rachel for citing

[01:01] God's wish for Christians to quote love

[01:03] thy neighbor in Leviticus, saying that

[01:06] that should include gay people. That's

[01:07] what we hear all the time is just, well,

[01:09] love thy neighbor, therefore,

[01:12] therefore you should accept all of these

[01:14] things. Therefore, you should allow

[01:16] children to mutilate their body parts

[01:18] because remember God calls Christians to

[01:22] love thy neighbor. So Charlie was

[01:25] responding to Miss Rachel said, "By the

[01:28] way, Miss Rachel, you might want to

[01:29] crack open that Bible of yours." In a

[01:32] lesser reference, part of the same part

[01:33] of scripture in Leviticus 18 is that

[01:36] thou shalt not thou shalt lay with

[01:38] another man shall be stoned to death.

[01:42] Here's what Charlie actually said about

[01:44] the gay community. I believe marriage is

[01:46] one man, one woman. Also, gay people

[01:49] should be welcome in the conservative

[01:50] movement. As Christians, we are called

[01:52] to love everyone. I will always stand

[01:54] against people who wish to establish

[01:56] their own personal views as a reason to

[01:58] kick others out of our movement. And he

[02:01] had a long history of of engaging in a

[02:04] very kind debate or kind conversation

[02:09] with gay people when there's I mean, let

[02:12] let me just I'm going to play you a

[02:14] video of Charlie having a back and forth

[02:18] with a gay conservative. a gay

[02:21] conservative and I just want to kind of

[02:24] ask you like what do you have to say for

[02:25] people like me who kind of feel like I

[02:28] guess it's kind of hard for gay

[02:30] conservatives cuz there's not a lot of

[02:31] us. So like what do you have to say to

[02:33] other gay people who who need to realize

[02:35] like they do have a choice.

[02:36] >> Yeah. First of all, welcome to the

[02:37] conservative movement. I don't think you

[02:38] should introduce yourself just based on

[02:40] your your sexual attraction.

[02:41] >> I agree. I like that's not who you are.

[02:43] >> I like to be thought of as a person and

[02:44] >> for sure you are a complete human being

[02:46] and I'm sure you treat people well and

[02:48] you're studying something. So, I want to

[02:50] get away with this idea that you're gay

[02:52] anything. I just think that we have gone

[02:54] a long way in the negative direction in

[02:56] this country where we act as if the most

[02:58] important part of your identity is what

[03:01] you do in the bedroom. It doesn't mean

[03:02] that much to me. But if you ask from a

[03:04] perspective as a Christian, I I I don't

[03:06] agree at that lifestyle. But politics is

[03:08] about addition and multiplication. I

[03:10] imagine you agree with a lot of what we

[03:11] talk about, right? Strong borders,

[03:13] strong country. And for that, you know,

[03:15] we we welcome you into the conservative

[03:16] movement.

[03:18] Where's the hate that I was promised?

[03:21] Where's the hateful rhetoric? Where's

[03:23] the judging gay people? Where's the, oh,

[03:25] Charlie said gay people should be stoned

[03:26] to death. He just literally welcomed him

[03:28] into his movement.

[03:30] So, it's just not true. There was also

[03:33] one going around, you know, uh, Charlie

[03:35] was a fan of the Second Amendment.

[03:37] Uh-oh. That, well, he got shot to death.

[03:40] Here's what a Syracuse University

[03:42] professor had to say about that. Charlie

[03:44] Kirk said it was worth it to have quote

[03:47] a few gun deaths each year so that we

[03:49] can have the second amendment. He called

[03:51] those deaths prudent and a rational

[03:53] deal. Him dying this way seems both

[03:55] ironic and in line with his own

[03:57] politics. Now I want to play for you the

[04:00] real quote from Charlie which as you can

[04:03] guess was of course taken out of

[04:05] context.

[04:06] >> We need to be very clear that you're not

[04:08] going to get gun deaths to zero. It will

[04:12] not happen. Right.

[04:13] >> You can significantly reduce them

[04:15] through having more fathers in the home.

[04:17] >> Yes.

[04:17] >> By having more armed guards in front of

[04:19] schools.

[04:20] >> Yes.

[04:24] >> We we we should have a honest and clear

[04:27] reductionist view of gun violence, but

[04:30] we should not have a utopian one. You

[04:32] will never live in a society when you

[04:34] have an armed citizenry and you won't

[04:35] have a single gun death. That is

[04:37] nonsense. It's dril.

[04:39] >> But I am I I think it's I think it's

[04:41] worth it. I think it's worth to have a

[04:44] cost of unfortunately some gun deaths

[04:46] every single year so that we can have

[04:49] the second amendment to protect our

[04:50] other god-given rights. That is a

[04:53] prudent deal. It is rational.

[04:56] >> I promise you. I promise you that

[04:59] Charlie

[05:01] still believes that right now. I promise

[05:04] you because he understands the

[05:05] repercussion of not having an armed

[05:07] society. And he understands that just

[05:09] like with drugs and any other contraband

[05:11] that is sold on the black market these

[05:13] days because it's not illegal. You can't

[05:15] like just make guns illegal. Make we're

[05:18] going to make murder more illegal. I

[05:21] realize that's not a word. That's the

[05:22] point. We're going to make murder

[05:23] illegal and then people will stop doing

[05:25] it. Of course, he understands that and

[05:26] he there therefore he understands the

[05:28] importance of someone having the ability

[05:30] to protect themselves from the bad guy

[05:32] with the gun.

[05:33] Now, let's get to the racist claims. Oh,

[05:36] Charlie Kirk was a racist. Charlie Kirk

[05:38] was a racist. He was against

[05:40] desegregation in the 1964 Civil Rights

[05:42] Act. Okay, let's listen to uh to to

[05:44] Charlie on that. The

[05:45] >> Civil Rights Act was a mistake. What did

[05:47] you mean by that?

[05:48] >> Yeah. So, the parts of the Civil Rights

[05:49] Act were great, but the way it's now

[05:51] being implemented to force men and

[05:53] female bathrooms to push forward of the

[05:55] trans agenda, the intent of the Civil

[05:57] Rights Act is way beyond what it was

[05:58] originally authored for. But the intent

[06:00] specifically originally was to

[06:02] >> Well, that's So the intent and the law

[06:04] are two different things. So the intent

[06:06] was noble, which was to say that no

[06:08] American can be not allowed into a place

[06:10] of business based on the color of their

[06:11] skin or their ethnic heritage. Totally

[06:13] agreement with that. That's not what the

[06:14] law only did. It created a massive

[06:16] anti-racist DEI army that then gave us

[06:18] affirmative action. For example,

[06:20] recently Merrick Garland sued using the

[06:22] Civil Rights Act saying that we cannot

[06:24] have voter ID in certain states because

[06:25] it's a violation of the Civil Rights

[06:27] Act. So basically what the civil rights

[06:28] act did is that it went beyond disperate

[06:31] impact and then went to disperate effect

[06:33] in the sense where if black Americans

[06:35] are not doing as well as white Americans

[06:36] in a certain category, you can now use

[06:38] the Civil Rights Act and say that's a

[06:40] violation of the Civil Rights Act even

[06:41] though there might be other contributing

[06:43] factors. Does that make sense?

[06:44] >> Yeah.

[06:44] >> So it's too broad, too wide, and it's

[06:46] now doing a lot of damage to the

[06:47] country. It's being used well beyond its

[06:49] original intent.

[06:52] >> Pretty straightforward to me. Doesn't

[06:54] sound like a blatant racist. really

[06:57] doesn't. Let's uh let's listen to more

[07:00] uh from this very racist Charlie Kirk.

[07:04] >> Unfortunately, in the black community,

[07:06] dads are the most absent of any

[07:08] community. About 2/3 of all black youth

[07:10] will be raised without a stable father

[07:12] around. And I know it's crazy, right? Um

[07:16] and that that little precious angel of

[07:18] yours deserves to have a father around.

[07:23] >> Oh, no. He called this very cute little

[07:26] uh black baby a precious angel. Sounds

[07:29] like a terrible racist. Right

[07:33] now, let's get to the mainstream media.

[07:35] The New York Times told millions of

[07:38] their Well, I don't know if they have

[07:40] millions of readers anymore. Actually,

[07:43] I'm I'm They may not have millions of

[07:46] readers, but whoever the hell is still

[07:47] reading that crappy rag told all their

[07:50] readers that Charlie Kirk was

[07:52] anti-Semitic. They claimed that Charlie

[07:55] said this, "Jewish communities have been

[07:57] pushing the exact kind of hatred against

[07:59] whites that they claim to want people to

[08:01] stop using against them." They said

[08:04] Charlie Kirk, he said it on his podcast,

[08:07] The Charlie Kirk Show in 2023.

[08:11] Except, uhoh, he was actually critiquing

[08:14] that quote. Someone else said, "What

[08:17] Charlie actually said before reading it,

[08:20] half of this tweet is true, half of it I

[08:22] don't like."

[08:24] And then the New York Times was uh he

[08:28] they had to issue an apology. They had

[08:30] to issue an apology. A correction was

[08:32] made on September 11th, 2025. An earlier

[08:34] version of this article described

[08:36] incorrectly an anti-semitic statement

[08:37] that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode

[08:39] of his podcast. He was quoting a

[08:42] statement from a post on social media

[08:44] and went on to critique it. It was not

[08:46] his own statement.

[08:48] I don't think they care because the

[08:51] damage was already done and you cannot

[08:53] convince me that that was not

[08:55] intentional.

[08:56] New York Times. Okay. So, please share

[09:00] this with a friend.

[09:02] Share this with a friend

[09:05] who is spewing incorrect rhetoric about

[09:09] Charlie Kirk knowing that he is not here

[09:12] to defend himself

[09:14] and make sure they know that all of

[09:17] these are wrong and taken out of context

[09:19] so that they can fuel their hateful

[09:22] agenda. I hope I hope that this helps.

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