In a moment when the country should have come together to condemn political violence, MSNBC’s Katy Tur chose instead to take a cheap shot.
TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a Q&A event at Utah Valley State University. Videos from the scene show students scrambling as the gunfire rang out under a pop-up tent. Graphic video shows the moment Kirk was shot in the neck and blood pours out of his neck.
Yet rather than calling for calm or offering prayers for one of America’s most prominent conservative voices, Tur immediately framed the incident as a chance to smear him. “Charlie Kirk is a divisive figure, polarizing, a lightning rod, whatever term you want to use,” she declared on air — as though that had anything to do with a man fighting for his life.
It didn’t stop there. Tur went further, speculating that the Trump administration would use the shooting as a “justification” for its own ends, without explaining what she meant. The insinuation was clear: even when conservatives are the victims of violence, the Left can spin it into a reason to distrust them.
That is the sickness of our current media ecosystem. A prominent American is gunned down in front of students, and one of MSNBC’s star hosts can’t resist the urge to turn it into a partisan jab. No calls for unity, no recognition that political violence — against anyone — corrodes our country. Just another round of character assassination layered on top of the real one that nearly succeeded.
This isn’t journalism. It’s moral rot on live television.
WATCH Katy Tur’s stunning comments here: