Like all the Powerliners and Ringsiders, I abhor violence, as a response to an idea one disfavors. Let’s get that out of the way, at the top. And no, there is no exclusively left-wing epidemic of US political violence. If anything, there have been more such events, from the right — though they’ve resulted in fewer fatalities, as I count it.
But Bill and others are making Kirk some latter day Messiah of pure First Amendment expression, minus any odious animus. This is plainly a false telling of his life.
He regularly spouted deeply racist, and wildly antisemitic, diatribes. I’ll post the lowlight reel, but it is everywhere on the internet, if one just Googles “Kirk racism” in quotes.
So — here’s Otis — on how to honor Kirk, in a posting this afternoon:
…One thing that won’t be allowed is hate and its cousins; hence, there would be no “Jews are filth” table; no “Muslims are animals,” no “Trump is Hitler” or “Biden’s a Moron.” Short of hate masquerading as ideas, all actual ideas would be welcome.
Anything you like: the death penalty, abortion, clean energy, prison reform, guaranteed annual income, the gold standard, unitary executive, sexual mores, Wokeism, capitalism, traditional values, the welfare state, AI, communal living — you name it. As I understand it, Kirk put no limit on any legitimate topic for debate, and the Debate Fest to be held in his honor won’t either….
Welp. Except, that Billie-boy — Old Charlie regularly labeled Michelle Obama and KBJ as “lacking the intellectual horsepower” to achieve anything (instead relying solely on the “crutch of DEI“, in his words)… he called an Asian-American woman who was debating him, on tape — at one of these other college debate fests… a “chink” over and over… and, he visibly tried to violently jump into the crowd (to start a fist-fight) when another debater got the best of him, rhetorically (it was on guns and violence — and the man was Latino)… and on and on. I’ll happily post the tape if you like Bill.
He did also say that people being killed by gun violence were all “worth it” — to keep his absolute Second Amendment views (own a rocket launcher if you like!) free from meddlesome judges.
So… perhaps one table at Mr. Otis’ mythical debate fest on the National Mall in November 2025 should be: “Proposition: Whether Charlie Kirk STILL thinks gun violence deaths… are ‘WORTH IT”… now?”
He also claimed (repeatedly) that empathy was just a DEI wussies’ construct — to make “real men” like him feel bad — and he refused to go in for it.
I, on the other hand, will readily express my sincere empathy for his toddlers (they had no part in choosing this path), who now will grow up without their dad, and his widow (even though she was choosing that same hate-filled path, day by day) — and he is forever dead. That is so, at least in some part, due to his wildly incendiary rhetoric (we all should turn down the heat, I think).
That, and his demand that all guns — in any loons’ hands… must be a treated as sacramental vestments are.
D A M N. I’m out, before I type something… really unkind.
He [was] the Condor. It is a very fine movie — Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway — directed by Sidney Pollack; in a Dino De Laurentis picture (from the novel Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady). … Just click on the video, above — or, better yet, go rent the movie. You won’t regret it. I promise.
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