True Colors

The left's desperate scramble to distance itself from Charlie Kirk's murder

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week, it didn’t take very long for the legacy media outlets to start really missing the point. In fact, it was actually pretty quick.

It also became apparent, pretty early on, that they were doing so intentionally.

They had to be, right? I mean, in such a clear-cut case, no one could truly be that dense.

And I started to notice that the manner in which they were covering the story, particularly from the killer’s perspective, was different than the way similar stories had been dealt with in the recent past.

For a few days, I was left wondering why. What made this different?

Thomas Crooks, who attempted to assassinate then-former President Trump in Butler, PA, last July, showed no overt ideological proclivity and had no significant online presence.

Moreover, while he did make one small donation to a Democrat-aligned organization in 2021, he was actually a registered Republican.

Anyway, the media didn’t spend a hell of a lot of time trying to share the human side of Thomas Crooks with the American public. Nobody was describing his life story as “very touching” or “intimate.”

Then there was Ryan Routh, who, in September, never managed to get a shot off at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club.

If you’ve paid any attention to this guy, you know he’s bat-shit crazy and, to put it mildly, doesn’t exactly come across as charismatic.