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Categories: Analysis
September 23, 2025

Steve Green, Bill Whittle, and Scott Ott dismantle the mainstream media's distorted coverage of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination. Within hours of the tragedy, major news outlets attempted to paint the assassin Tyler Robinson as a far-right radical, despite clear evidence he was motivated by left-wing rhetoric. MSNBC's Matthew Dowd blamed Kirk himself for his own murder, claiming his "awful words" led to "awful actions," yet failed to cite a single example. The hosts examine how the systematic demonization of conservatives as fascists and Nazis by Democratic Party leaders and amplified by mainstream media created an environment where Robinson believed he was killing a hatemonger. In reality, Kirk's approach was the opposite, respectful dialogue, setting up "change my mind" discussions on college campuses, and treating all participants with dignity.

The Immediate Media Distortion

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot dead by a left-wing assassin with a political agenda, yet according to various news reports, conservatives were somehow to blame. Within 24 hours of the assassination, multiple papers—mostly publishing on Saturday—attempted to claim that the accused killer Tyler Robinson was a far-right radical who murdered Kirk for not being far enough to the right. That narrative, thankfully, fell apart within a day. But the disturbing reality is that the press knew it was a lie when they ran with it.

Within minutes to an hour of the assassination, MSNBC's Matthew Dowd blamed Charlie Kirk himself for his own murder. Dowd stated: "You can't stop with these awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place." Dowd didn't bother to quote any of those supposed "awful words," but he faced some accountability—he was fired from MSNBC, though he's reportedly still seeking donations on Blue Sky.

A Media Failure Unlike Anything Before

Conservative commentator Stephen Miller from Colorado captured the surreal nature of the media's response: "The most influential conservative influencer was shot and assassinated in broad daylight. The country watched the video of him bleeding violently. And the left and the media have spent the last four days telling everyone that the right is more violent. I've never experienced anything like this in my life with the media. And you should never forget it ever."

Bill Whittle noted that while the rhetoric has no connection to reality, the left realizes this event essentially marks the death knell for what's left of the mainstream media. They're desperate to shift the narrative because they're aware of their complicity in creating the environment that led to Kirk's assassination.

The Dangerous Power of Labeling

Whittle drew a crucial distinction between isolated incidents and systematic demonization. Just weeks earlier, the Right Angle team had agreed that political candidates couldn't be held responsible for what one random supporter does. But Kirk's assassination wasn't that. This was the systematic demonization of conservatives as fascists and Nazis by every single senior member of the Democratic Party, amplified and repeated by the mainstream media.

Whittle made a provocative argument: "On some level I think we are partially responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk because we took it. We simply took it. They called us Nazis and fascists. And when Kamala Harris was asked point blank, 'Do you believe that Donald Trump is a fascist?' Yes, I do believe it. We allowed ourselves to be treated with this because we thought it was the same kind of thing that we would do when we call them, you know, a bunch of commies or whatever."

The critical difference, Whittle argued, is that conservatives can disagree with the left and criticize them without wanting them dead. But by tolerating the fascist and Nazi labels, conservatives allowed an echo chamber to develop where these accusations became accepted reality for many on the left.

The Assassin's Justification

Text message conversations between Robinson and his roommate revealed the depth of this indoctrination. When his roommate asked why he did it, Robinson responded: "I'd had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out." This individual clearly had never listened to Charlie Kirk at any length whatsoever. He had been told that Kirk was a fascist, that conservatives are fascists, that the MAGA movement is fascist.

Whittle pointed to other examples of this dangerous mindset, including progressives at a bicycle race threatening someone who opposed men in women's sports, telling him to leave before they hurt him because "we kill Nazis here and you're a Nazi and we kill Nazis." This label of fascism and Nazism, repeated constantly, creates what's known as stochastic terrorism—setting up an entire societal argument that a certain philosophy is so far out of bounds that the people who believe in it are not human and therefore deserve to die.

The Madison Square Garden Playbook

As one clear example of this media manipulation, Whittle recalled when Donald Trump held an event at Madison Square Garden during the campaign. The first thing reported in the news was that Nazis had also held a rally at Madison Square Garden—in the 1930s, 90 years ago. This was the level of absurd connection-making employed to paint conservatives as Nazis.

Charlie Kirk's Actual Approach

Scott Ott offered what may be the most quotable line about Kirk since his assassination: "His technique was his message." Kirk's technique was to set up a banner that said "change my mind," not "kill all the trans people." His disarming willingness to talk about issues was as far from hate as one could possibly get.

If Kirk had been a political firebrand who held rallies instead of discussions and genuinely called for the elimination of trans people, it still wouldn't justify his murder. But Kirk's rhetoric was so far from what his murderer thought of him that the only way Robinson could have gotten that opinion was if he had been saturated—truly saturated—by hearing it from all sides of the left-wing echo chamber.

Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest

Real Clear Investigations' Robert Sperry noted another media ethics violation: MSNBC host Katie Tur did not disclose during her segment on the assassination that her journalist father is transgender. Bob Tur is now Zoe Tur—the same person who grabbed Ben Shapiro by the neck and threatened to send him home in an ambulance. Yet Katie Tur pretends to be an unbiased reporter.

Much of the coverage from mainstream media has been insisting that the right turn down the hostile violent rhetoric. But the reality is the opposite—the left turns up the rhetoric, amplifies it through media and social media, and simply waits for a troubled individual to decide to act on it.

The Free Speech Perspective

Scott Ott offered a contrarian but principled view: "If you have those views and you are on a TV network that's ostensibly concerned with news, I want to know. I want to hear what you have to say because I want to make it clear to everybody what you actually believe."

Ott emphasized that while inflammatory speech is unwise in a civil society, "speech squeezes no trigger." The person who squeezes the trigger is the person responsible for the killing, not whatever amount of inflammatory speech he's heard or read elsewhere. If someone on MSNBC truly believes inflammatory things, Ott would rather hear it openly than have it hidden.

He contrasted this with the supposedly inflammatory things Charlie Kirk said that "got him shot": When someone stepped up to the microphone and espoused a viewpoint, Kirk would say, "I disagree with that, but I want to hear what you say and then I'll explain what I believe." That respectful approach is what allegedly got him killed.

The Curated Reality Problem

Ott noted that people on the left are seeing something completely different in their curated algorithmic feeds on social media. They're being fed more and more of what they want to see, and as a consequence they're seeing sliced and diced pieces of things and comments out of context. They have a completely different view of Charlie Kirk than anybody who's watched him at length or seen what he really does.

Kirk didn't go to college campuses and lead 1930s-style Madison Square Garden rallies. He went to college campuses and encouraged civic dialogue, treating people with respect and dignity. After events, Kirk would actually make an effort to go out and shake the hands of people who had stepped up to the microphone, realizing it's difficult to speak publicly and wanting to thank them for their views.

Ott concluded: "As he has fallen, I pray that many will rise in his place, not to cause dissension on college campuses, but to cause civic dialogue."

The Intimate Portrait of a Killer

Just hours before the taping, police released sections of Robinson's text messages with his transitioning gay furry roommate and lover. ABC News's Matt Gutman read these on air and said he wasn't sure "if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages that were very touching in a way that I think many of us didn't expect, a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate who is transitioning, calling him my love and I want to protect you my love."

This is how ABC News chose to frame a man who murdered someone who went to college campuses to talk about Jesus and encourage respectful dialogue.

The Worst Possible Media

Steve Green wrapped up with a sobering reminder: The news media is not only worse than you imagine, it's worse than you can imagine. In fact, Americans don't just have the world's worst media—they have the world's worst possible media.

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[00:00] Conservative influence Charlie Kirk was

[00:02] shot dead by a left-wing assassin with a

[00:04] political agenda. And according to

[00:05] various news reports, conservatives are

[00:08] to blame. Hey everybody, I'm Steve Green

[00:10] with Bill Whittle and Scott. This is

[00:11] Right Angle brought to you by the

[00:13] members of bill whittle.com. Uh

[00:15] gentlemen, various papers, I don't know

[00:17] if you saw this, mostly on Saturday,

[00:19] tried claiming that the accused killer

[00:21] Tyler Robinson was a far-right radical

[00:24] who killed Kirk for not being far enough

[00:26] to the right. that narrative, thank

[00:28] goodness, that that whole thing fell

[00:30] apart within 24 hours or so. But the

[00:32] thing is, the press knew it was a lie

[00:34] when they ran with it. Um, within

[00:37] minutes, at least an hour of the

[00:39] assassination, MSNBC's Matthew Dodd

[00:42] blamed Charlie himself. He said, and

[00:44] this is a quote, "You can't stop with

[00:46] these awful thoughts you have and then

[00:48] saying these awful words and then not

[00:50] expect awful actions to take place." Dow

[00:53] didn't bother to quote any of those

[00:55] awful words, but he didn't get fired,

[00:57] which is some accountability I wasn't

[00:59] expecting. You won't be seeing him on

[01:00] MSNBC anymore, but I think he's still

[01:02] looking for for donations on Blue Sky

[01:05] with the rest of the weirdos. Uh, this

[01:07] next item is from Steven Miller, who's a

[01:09] conservative here in Colorado. He said,

[01:11] "The most influential conservative

[01:13] influencer was shot and assassinated in

[01:15] broad daylight. The country watched the

[01:17] video of him bleeding violently. And the

[01:20] left and the media have spent the last

[01:21] four days telling everyone that the

[01:23] right is more violent. I've never

[01:25] experienced anything like this in my

[01:27] life with the media. And you should

[01:29] never forget it ever. And Bill, I was

[01:32] going to ask you a question, but I'm

[01:34] watching your face, so I'm just going to

[01:35] say go.

[01:40] There's no connection. the rhetoric has

[01:42] no connection to reality, but I think

[01:44] the left realizes that this is

[01:45] essentially the death nail for um for

[01:48] for what's left of the mainstream media.

[01:50] Um and I think they also are are

[01:53] desperate to shift this narrative

[01:54] because they are aware of the complicity

[01:56] that they have in it. Um, look, you we

[02:00] did a an episode just a couple weeks ago

[02:02] where we talked about um the Sears

[02:05] campaign and one of her um supposed

[02:09] supporters showed up with a sign that

[02:10] was kind of racist and and a bad taste.

[02:12] And the three of us agreed that you

[02:14] can't be held uh Sears's opponent can't

[02:17] be held responsible for what one person

[02:18] does. And I think that was a a fair uh

[02:21] analysis on on our our three parts. But

[02:24] this isn't that this is this is the

[02:26] systematic demonization of of

[02:29] conservatives as fascists and Nazis. And

[02:32] I I

[02:34] don't know how else to put this, but on

[02:36] some level I think we are partially

[02:38] responsible for the assassination of

[02:40] Charlie Kirk because we took it. We we

[02:43] simply took it. They they called us

[02:45] Nazis and fascists. And when Camala

[02:47] Harris was asked point blank, "Do you

[02:49] believe that Donald Trump is a fascist?"

[02:51] Yes, I I I do. I do believe it. We we

[02:54] allowed ourselves to be tred with this

[02:57] because we thought it was the same kind

[03:00] of thing that we would do when we call

[03:01] them, you know, a bunch of commies or

[03:03] whatever. We we we

[03:07] can disagree with the left and and and

[03:10] and

[03:12] criticize the left without wanting them

[03:14] dead. But but what what allowed to

[03:17] happen by tolerating this was was that

[03:22] this echo chamber was set up to the

[03:24] degree where I I'm just now looking at

[03:26] the latest reports where there's a a

[03:28] text um conversation between Robinson

[03:31] and his um and his roommate and

[03:33] >> Oh yeah, I've got I've got some of that

[03:35] later in the in the segment.

[03:36] >> Right. And and the roommate said, um why

[03:39] did you do it? And and Robinson said,

[03:41] I'd had enough of his hatred. Some hate

[03:43] can't be negotiated out. speaking about

[03:45] Charlie Kirk. Now, that that individual

[03:49] >> clearly has never listened to Charlie

[03:52] Kirk at any length whatsoever.

[03:54] >> This individual has been told that

[03:55] Charlie Kirk is a fascist. The

[03:57] conservatives are fascist. The MAGA

[03:58] movement is fascist. And I have seen a

[04:01] number of of conflicts between not only

[04:04] before and after Charlie Kirk's uh

[04:06] assassination where for example there

[04:08] was a a bicycle race and somebody was

[04:11] saying get men out of women's sports and

[04:13] and these three progressives were saying

[04:15] you better get out of here before we

[04:17] hurt you because we kill Nazis here and

[04:19] you're a Nazi and we kill Nazis. The guy

[04:21] basically says I think they ought to get

[04:22] women uh get men out of women's sports.

[04:25] Now, this guy's life was directly

[04:26] threatened and and the the the money

[04:28] line was we kill Nazis and and and so

[04:33] there you go. Now, I'm going to later do

[04:35] a look at at at a a close look at the

[04:36] examination of the psychology of this,

[04:39] but but the bottom line, Steve, is that

[04:42] is that this label of fascism and Nazism

[04:47] has been has been spoken by every single

[04:50] senior member of the Democratic Party

[04:52] and and amplified and invented and and

[04:56] repeated by the mainstream media. As one

[04:58] example, just as one example, remember

[05:01] during the campaign when Donald Trump um

[05:04] did an event at Madison Square Garden

[05:05] and the first thing we saw in the news

[05:07] was that the Nazis also had held a rally

[05:09] a rally in Madison Square Garden.

[05:10] Remember that?

[05:11] >> That was just the other day in the

[05:12] 1930s.

[05:13] >> That's right. The Nazis also had a rally

[05:16] >> 90 years ago.

[05:17] >> Okay. So So that that is undeniable. And

[05:21] I think the term is uh stochastic

[05:23] terrorism where you are you are

[05:25] essentially setting up an entire

[05:27] societal argument

[05:30] that a certain philosophy is so far out

[05:32] of bounds that the that the people who

[05:34] believe in it are not human and since

[05:36] they're not human uh they deserve to

[05:38] die. Now most people h hear that message

[05:42] and they just develop a you know raging

[05:44] hatred. We saw a bunch of those in the

[05:45] aftermath. But some people hear that and

[05:48] they decide I've got to do something

[05:49] about this. And so for for Charlie

[05:52] Kirk's assassin to say that you can't

[05:54] reason with the kind of hatred that

[05:56] Charlie Kirk has shows you how how

[06:01] completely informed by the social

[06:03] narrative this guy was as opposed to

[06:06] what Charlie Kirk was actually saying.

[06:08] Scott said on our backstage show, I

[06:10] thought it was the most quotable line

[06:12] I've heard uh about Charlie since the

[06:15] assassination. I I really do. Uh Scott

[06:17] said um speaking of Charlie Kirk uh

[06:20] Scott said his technique was his message

[06:22] and and and his technique was to set up

[06:25] a banner that says change my mind not

[06:27] kill all the trans people. Change my

[06:29] mind and and that disarming willingness

[06:34] to to talk about issues is about

[06:37] >> he was respectful.

[06:38] >> It's about as far from hate as you can

[06:40] possibly get. If Charlie Kirk was a was

[06:42] a political fire brand who had rallies

[06:45] instead of discussions and genuinely was

[06:48] calling for things like the elimination

[06:49] of trans people and all the rest of this

[06:51] stuff, still wouldn't justify his

[06:52] murder. But but the re the reason I

[06:55] bring this up is because Charlie Kirk's

[06:57] rhetoric was so far from what this

[07:00] murderer thought of him that the only

[07:03] way that he could have gotten that

[07:04] opinion was if he had been saturated, I

[07:08] mean really saturated from hearing it

[07:10] from all sides of of the leftwing echo

[07:12] chamber.

[07:16] Yeah. Um this next item, this is

[07:18] courtesy of uh Real Clear

[07:20] Investigations. Robert Sperry, who's

[07:21] just a a really good guy, really sharp

[07:23] guy. He noted that uh there's a quote.

[07:25] MSNBC host Katie Tur did not disclose

[07:28] during her segment on this, that her

[07:31] journalist father is transgender. Bob

[07:34] Tur is now Zoe. And Zoe, by the way,

[07:38] this is me now. He's the same dude who

[07:40] grabbed Ben Shapiro by the neck a couple

[07:42] of weeks ago and threatened to send him

[07:43] home in an ambulance. And Katie

[07:46] pretends, of course, to be an unbiased

[07:48] reporter. Uh Scott, so much of the

[07:50] coverage we've seen from the mainstream

[07:53] media has been insisting that the right

[07:56] turn down the hostile violent rhetoric,

[08:00] but I maintain that the left doing what

[08:03] Bill was just describing. There's no big

[08:06] conspiracy to kill people, to

[08:08] assassinate people. It doesn't have to

[08:10] be. The left turns up the rhetoric. They

[08:12] amplify it through the media and through

[08:14] social media and just wait for a nutcase

[08:17] to decide to grab a rifle. Shouldn't we

[08:19] be t shouldn't we be telling them to

[08:22] turn it down?

[08:24] >> No. And and here's why. Um if you have

[08:28] those views and you are on a TV network

[08:32] that's ostensibly concerned with news, I

[08:35] want to know. I want to hear what you

[08:38] have to say because I want to make it

[08:39] clear to everybody what you actually

[08:41] believe. So, uh I don't think it's a

[08:45] good idea for people to inflame uh

[08:47] others uh to violent acts. However,

[08:52] speech squeezes no trigger. Um the

[08:55] person who squeezes the trigger is the

[08:58] person responsible for the killing, not

[09:01] whatever amount of inflammatory speech

[09:04] uh he's heard or read elsewhere. Um, and

[09:08] so yeah, in a civil society, it would be

[09:11] a good idea if you didn't try to

[09:14] encourage people uh to blur the line

[09:17] between speech and and physical action

[09:19] and violence. Um, but if you're on MSNBC

[09:23] and that's what you really believe, I'

[09:25] I'd really rather hear it. Um, you know,

[09:28] this is this is the kind of inflammatory

[09:31] thing that Charlie Kirk would say that

[09:34] got him shot. When somebody stepped up

[09:37] to the microphone and espoused a

[09:39] viewpoint, he said, "I disagree with

[09:42] that, but I want to hear what you say

[09:44] and then I'll explain what I believe."

[09:46] Yeah, that's that's got him shot. Um,

[09:50] that is typical of how Charlie Kirk

[09:53] handled things. Now, is that what people

[09:56] on the left are seeing in their curated

[09:59] algorithmic feeds on social media where

[10:02] they're being fed more and more of what

[10:04] they want to see and as a consequence

[10:07] they're they're seeing uh sliced and

[10:10] diced pieces of things and comments out

[10:12] of context and they I'm sure have a

[10:15] completely different view of Charlie

[10:17] Kirk than anybody who's watched him at

[10:18] length or seen what he really does.

[10:21] um he he doesn't go to college campuses

[10:23] and and lead uh you know 1930s Madison

[10:26] Square Garden rallies. Um he he goes to

[10:29] college campuses and encourages civic

[10:31] dialogue and treats people with respect

[10:33] and dignity. I am I am told that after

[10:36] events like this, Charlie Kirk would

[10:38] actually make an effort to go out and

[10:40] shake the hands of people who had

[10:42] stepped up to the microphone. He

[10:43] realizes it's difficult to do that and

[10:45] he knows that they're under, you know, a

[10:47] lot of pressure and he wants to thank

[10:49] them for their views. This is exactly

[10:51] the kind of person and and and let me

[10:53] just say this, as he has fallen, I pray

[10:57] that many will rise in his place, not to

[11:00] cause dissension on college campuses,

[11:03] but to cause civic dialogue.

[11:05] >> Yeah, we need more of that. Uh there's

[11:07] one more item that broke just a couple

[11:09] hours before we taped this segment, and

[11:10] Bill, I think, alluded to this earlier.

[11:12] Police released Robinson's text messages

[11:15] or a section of them with his

[11:16] transitioning gay furry roommatelover

[11:20] and ABC News's Matt Gutman read these

[11:24] and on the air said he's not sure quote

[11:27] if we have seen an alleged murder with

[11:30] such specific text messages that were

[11:32] very touching in a way that I think many

[11:34] of us didn't expect a very intimate

[11:36] portrait into this relationship between

[11:38] the suspect's roommate and the suspect

[11:41] himself with him repeatedly calling his

[11:43] roommate who is transitioning, calling

[11:45] him my love and I want to protect you my

[11:47] love. Yeah.

[11:49] >> By murdering a guy who went to college

[11:51] campuses to talk about Jesus. And this

[11:54] this is how ABC News's Matt Gutman

[11:58] chooses to uh to focus on this guy. So,

[12:01] you know what? I I was going to wrap

[12:02] this up by reminding you that the news

[12:04] media is not only worse than you

[12:06] imagine, it's worse than you can

[12:07] imagine. But then I thought I should

[12:09] wrap this up by reminding you that not

[12:11] only do we have the world's worst media,

[12:13] we have the world's worst possible

[12:16] media. And then I couldn't decide which

[12:18] one was better. So, you know what? I'll

[12:20] let you make the call. And both is a

[12:22] totally legitimate call. That's your

[12:25] right angle on that. Brought to you by

[12:26] the members of bill whittle.com. Thanks

[12:28] for watching. We'll see you next time.

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