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Kirk has been captured. He was apparently taken into custody. Yesterday.
There was a news conference. We carried it live here
on WBT at the time. I've pulled one chunk of
audio that we'll listen to. It's from the governor, Spencer Cox,
who closed out the comments before they turned it over
for Q and A. He closed out the comment portion
of the news conference with I thought a very powerful
and well said close. So we'll take a listen to that.
It runs about nine minutes, but it's well worth your time.
And before I get into some of the details that
we do know that came out of the press conference,
I want to start with what the reaction has been
on the left. We heard some of these arguments articulated
yesterday from about four or five different callers to this show,
and they all followed a sort of similar pattern, which is,
I'm not saying he should have been killed, but like,
that's the framing that the left has been using when
they are not out right celebrating, And there was a
lot of it. There has been so much of it
that now the right has engaged in a cancelation campaign
against every single one of you, sacks of turds, all
of you right. If your response to somebody being murdered
is to celebrate because you disagreed with their politics, you
are broken. You are a broken person. There was a
wave of celebration by leftists, I mean boldly, unabashedly, unembarrassingly
posting under their own social media profiles, and it was
so overwhelming. There were so many of them racing to
the keyboards or to their phones to express how happy
they were that Charlie Kirk was murdered in front of
his three year old daughter, his one year old son,
and his wife, as well as thousands of his fans.
They loved it, they loved it, and so conservatives, even normies.
I mean, that's the thing. Charlie Kirk was like, he
was as kind of a normy conservative as you're gonna
get in the content creation space. And so conservatives, young people,
fans of Charlie Kirk, people who are on the left too,
are liberal, but are repulsed by what they are seeing.
They've begun identifying people and asking their employers do you
want this person working for you, which, of course is
now prompted. Oh my gosh. I thought you guys were
against cancel culture and against cancelation campaigns. We were, Yeah,
we were, And then you guys set a new rule
and we all were living under your rule, and we
were the ones getting targeted. We were the ones that
I have been a target of this. You know, Leftists
don't like something that I say, and so they they
try to, you know, target advertisers, try to get me fired,
send messages to the boss, to the management, to the
owners of advertising, the companies that advertise. And that's always
been the playbook from the left since I've been in radio.
That's that's pretty standard. But then they expanded that with
the rise of social media. They expanded that to destroy
anybody on social media that did not fall in line.
And of course the whole point of that is intimidation,
much like swatting, sending swat teams to your house under
fake nine one one calls, if it's not an outright
attempt to murder you, to have the cops murder you.
And that's what I think you should be charged with.
And I still don't know why we don't have swatting
laws with severe punishments, like I mean, it's an attempted murder.
That's in my view. I would love to see legislation.
I would like to see that codified in law. But
even if you can't, even if they can't get you killed,
the idea is to scare you to the point that
you will shut up. It's why they post your address,
your home address. Had that happened to me. I've had
that happen to me so many times, I don't even
know how many anymore. And it's intimidation. It's an implied threat.
They walk a line. That is what was what one
of them said to me after the big blow up
with the UH. The the woman that she was it
wasn't it was with the ACLU, and she was a
formerly incarcerated, or as I call them, fips. She was
a FIP and the ACLU, I think it was Yeah,
They were like, we need to know her lived experience
her truth, and so they put her on their payroll
as like a lobbyist or something, and she was just
a vile, nasty, destructive, and threatening individual. They eventually cut
her loose after she came after me with these types
of attacks using homophobic and racial slurs, and then we
would get messages like touch one, touch us all, or
something like that. In other words, it's a threat. It's
if you say anything about her, I'm gonna come kill you.
Oh and here's your address and a picture of your house.
So we were getting that this is how the left operates.
And so now you're getting your rules, you're getting a
taste of your own medicine. But here's the difference. Whereas
you want to target me because I'm a conservative libertarian,
I don't even know anymore, right, but I don't agree
with leftists. I'm anti communists, and so you want to
come after people like me. You want to attack me,
threaten me, intimidate me, try to shut me up. But
you celebrate murder, which one creates a more hostile work environment. Seriously,
if you have to sit next to somebody at a cubicle,
you got to work with somebody at the office or wherever,
and you get a choice between somebody who disagrees with
your politics and somebody who is happy when people who
agree with you are murdered, which is a greater threat
to you, which creates more of a risk in your workplace.
So you actually have a credible complaint. One are the
other things Chris Ruffo noticed this, as did I. The
number of people celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder are well, the population,
let's say, is it appears to be overrepresented in the
categories of certain professions. Number one that I noticed there
are an awful lot of educators quote unquote. Why is that?
Why would that be? Why would there be so many
teachers and professors and people who work for the school systems. Well,
why are they like all over the place celebrating this murder?
And what are they teaching kids? And what if they
know that kids in their classroom liked Charlie Kirk. If
you're a kid in a class and your teacher is
doing touchdown celebrations on TikTok, that Charlie Kirk was murdered.
What kind of an education do you think that teacher
is giving you? Is it like the education that the
shooter got? Because that's what it looks like. Guy got
radicalized while at college. That's what it looks like. I
don't know that to be true yet, but that's what
it sure looks like at this point. Psychologists, social workers,
these what Christopher Ruffo calls helping professions. Why are there
so many people from these helping professions, these professions of kindness?
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now going after people who have been celebrating the murder
of Charlie Kirk. And maybe maybe five years ago, six
years ago, seven years ago, I would I would be
saying like, no, no, no, we shouldn't be doing this.
People like it's wrong when the left does it, and
we shouldn't be engaging in the same sort of thing.
But see, that's the thing, guys. When you set the
new standard and you enforce that standard with ferocity, you
cannot be shocked when your opponents adapt and play by
that new standard. And that's what we're seeing. And we've
got to We've got examples here locally, they're all they're happening.
It's happening all over the country, these people who come
out and feel comfortable enough to revel in the murder,
the assassination of an innocent person. Charlie Kirk was innocent
of anything that warrants the death penalty. You may not
like what he said, you may not like him, you
may think he's a horrible person. And here's the thing,
I don't care you don't get to murder people because
you disagree with them. That is a complete breakdown of
the society. So here is U, Charlotte Mecklenberg's school board
member District one. She actually on the Yeah, she is
on the she's on the board now, I believe. And
she posted up onto the Facebook. Her name is Melissa Easley.
She says, here's what I'm going to say today. Just stop,
just stop, like you didn't need to do this. It's
amazing how many people are lighting their careers on fire
over this. Now, maybe she thinks she can say this
sort of thing because she's a Democrat, and that's a
democrat privilege right there is you get to say crazy
things like this and it doesn't affect your electoral prospects.
You don't get shunned in polite and civil society. She says,
here's what I'm going to say about today. Politically motivated
gun violence is not okay, no matter what side you
are on. That is the disappointing part. And I am
saddened that this was yet another political issue that caused
a death. It wasn't a political issue that caused a death.
It was the fomenting of hatred for one's political opponents,
fellow Americans. There has been a stoking of hatred. It
has been going on for years against Republicans, whether it's
the depiction of Paul Ryan throwing an elderly woman off
of a cliff. What do you do to somebody like that?
Think about that? What do you do you see somebody
murder an elderly woman? What is the punishment for doing that? Right?
You keep on amping up, amping up, and then of
course it hits the crescendo, or not even because it
still goes. It hasn't stopped. It's like it kept building
and building. Donald Trump wins, you get Kathy Griffin with her,
you know, severed head of Donald Trump, and you get
all of this violence, fetish porn that the left is
just stewing in. Then of course you have the rise
of the Antifa, with the Black Lives Matter riots, mostly peaceful,
sometimes fiery riots, and the looting and some much.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: She goes on to say, but do not expect me
to feel sorry, pity or mournful for the man that
has gone around saying I or my spouse are abominations.
I don't believe he ever said that he was an
opponent of gay marriage, though, so I guess too easily.
She's now the victim. I'm the victim from him not
agreeing with me on gay marriage. You're not the victim.
This is the narcissism of the left. I'm so freaking
sick of it, this tendency for interpersonal victimhood. That you
are constantly viewing yourself as the victim of violence because
somebody disagrees with what you think. You have a different opinion.
It's not violence, you deranged person on the school board who,
by the way, he is a former teacher and cannot
spell the word pity. What the hell? You are a
member of the school board. You are a teacher and
you spell pity p T t y. You know that
Facebook gave you an autocorrect suggestion on that What the hell? Sorry?
A little fired up, she says that he's gone around
saying I are my spouse or abominations, that we are
mentally ill, that we don't deserve the same rights as
everybody else, that Charlie Kirk has never said there are
different rights for different people. He has never said that.
In fact, he's argued that we all enjoy equal protection
under the law, and he says, Remember, according to Charlie Kirk,
it's okay to sacrifice a few for your Second Amendment rights,
which is of course the clip that's been taken out
of context by people that never listened to anything Charlie
Kirk ever said in their lives. But somebody on a
lefty TikTok channel whent and found a clip, dare i say,
selectively edited it to make him sound like he's saying
something that he's not. They did the same thing with
the the he Semitism charged that. Oh, by the way,
the New York Times promulgated and then of course had
to issue a correction because that wasn't true. He was
restating a position in order to dismantle it. But they
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let me go over and I'm gonna play some soundbites here,
but i'll get on Mike here first. Hello, Mike, Welcome
to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey Pete, how are you?
Speaker 1: Hey? I'm all right, what's up?
Speaker 2: Good? The comments that were made by the school board member,
one I don't agree with them, and two I think
it some people might focus just on per comments and
that's not what I think is the gentleman that was
assassinated was talking about. I don't think he was trying
to pick one sin and just focus on that, because
sin is sin no matter what it is. He was
just trying to get people like that that school board
member to be able to sit down and talk intelligently
and calmly well.
Speaker 1: And also he was also proselytizing because this issue came up.
There's a pretty famous exchange that he had with a
college kid, and he talked about the stoning of the
woman the prostitute, right, and he told the story you
know that Jesus said he without sin cast the first
stone and that so that was mercy, but it wasn't
just mercy people like to drop off. The second part
of that was that Jesus, yes, said but you know,
he without sin cast the first stone. So he steps
in to provide the mercy. But then he also tells
her truth, which is what now go and sin no more? Right,
Like That's so it's not just a simple thing like oh,
just you know, don't cast stones, right, but also then
don't go sin anymore. And for a Christian, that's what
he's all. That's also part of his message.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. I used to have discussions with people that
I disagreed, that disagreed with me, and I would just
say that, hey, your argument is not with me, your
argument is with God, right, because it wasn't Charlie's idea,
it wasn't our ideas. It's in the infallible word of God.
So I hope that her comments don't try to rob
people of thinking that that was the only thing that
he was focusing.
Speaker 1: Well, that is her attempt. Obviously, that is her attempt.
And there are people on the left that have never
heard Charlie Kirk's comments or seen his videos and listen
to full debates. What they're going off of our little
clips that leftists are circulating in order to try to
build a case as to why this guy deserved to
be murdered in cold blood. That's what they're doing. It's
the same thing they did with Luigi Mangioni in trying
to justify his actions in the cold blooded murder of
the United Healthcare CEO as well. So, Mike, I appreciate
the call, buddy, thank you, good to hear from you.
Have a good weekend. Yeah, take care. Feat Here is
a clip from a guy named Zach Hoyt. He goes
by the online name of Asman Gold. He's a YouTuber,
content creator, online streamer, now more recently a political commentator.
He used to primarily focus on video games, World of
Warcraft and such, but now he covers politics as well
as video games and topics related to gaming culture. And
there is a story in the from the gaming world.
Here it is there is a developer called Sucker Punch Productions,
and they are getting ready to release a video game.
It's a sequel, it's called Ghost of Yotai. And apparently
one of the developers of this game went online and
was celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. And here's what
Zach Hoyt said on his YouTube channel.
Speaker 3: This is again another person who is celebrating this type
of violent behavior. And I think that again people need
to make their voices known and make them heard that
this is just simply not acceptable. This is not normal.
This is not what average people want. We don't want
to have people that are openly making statements and calls
to violence like this, or celebrating calls to violence or
actual violence like this, making our products.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting.
Speaker 3: And I know that some people would maybe consider and say, well,
this is something that could be a little bit like
cancel culture, and I want to say that it absolutely
is one hundred percent. Is the fact is that these
are the same types of people who would lie about
you and make up things about you and try to
destroy your career and destroy your reputation for disagreeing with
them on something political. But now whenever it's happening to them,
they're the victims. Well, if you want to be the victim,
it's time to earn it.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: Also, here's another thing is that if you work at
one of these companies and you have one of these
individuals that works at your company, you do have a
recourse to this, and that's calling and talking to HR.
Because the fact is that HR does not operate in
your best interest, and it doesn't operate in their best
interest either. It operates in the best interest of the company.
And when you have people that are making public statements
and calls to violence and celebrating violence like that, they're
creating a hostile and an unsafe work environment. And anybody
who works in HR, or anybody who works inside of
any sort of corporate environment will tell you that that's
something that just can't exist in the corporate environment. There's
a reason why we have levels of decorum, and there
are some levels of HR that makes sense. And so
if you work at one of these companies and you
have a person like this doing it, make sure to
talk to HR and let them know how uncomfortable you
feel that there's a person who's working at your company
who might want to advocate to have you killed because
you disagree with them. Tell them that it makes you
afraid to come into work. Tell you that, tell them
that you know, you don't know, maybe you're going to
file a lawsuit. You feel unsafe at your workplace. And honestly,
here's the important thing. You should feel unsafe because these
people would justify violence against anybody who disagrees with them.
And just because you think you know them doesn't mean
they wouldn't do the exact same thing to you.
Speaker 1: And this is them.
Speaker 3: This is the game that they're making right here, and
you can see that they've made no statement about this. Now,
let me ask you a very simple question. If these
people made a degrading comment towards the trans community, for example,
or towards the black community, for example, do you think
Sucker Punch would have immediately fired them and made a
statement I think so absolutely. But for some reason, these
people are protected. And the reason why they're protected is
because there's a lot of other ones at the company
that feel the exact same way that they do. That's
the only logical reason that I have, And I think
that at a certain points, Sony or somebody needs to
step in. Whoever owns this company needs to step in
and root out this disease before it kills the entire company,
because I do think that it will have a tremendously
negative effect on the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it already is. People are demanding refunds for their
pre order sales or yeah, they're pre launch sales. So
it is already affecting the game. So when I was
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This is why we walk. A tweet from Fisher King,
who says destroying the lives and careers of people celebrating
this political murder is essential. The people doing this have
participated in canceled culture but never felt it. They need
to feel it. They need to know what it's like
to have a mob ruin your life. Lake Norman Charter
School fired or sorry, put on administrative leave an employee
for their postings on social media about the assassination of
Charlie Kirk. They said that a member of their staff
shared a hateful and highly offensive sentiment. They did not
say what position was held by the employee. According to
the story a WBTV, they're doing a complete investigation, which
should really only take you as much time as it
takes to read the tweet or the post. Really. Meanwhile,
over at the Carolina Panthers once again made some national
news Job Carolina Panthers because they fired one of their
employees for a social media post following Charlie Kirk's death.
Then there was a high school teacher in Greenville County,
South Carolina, also reportedly without a job. The school district
said they were aware of the message and confirmed that
it was written by a social studies teacher who was
working at Southside High School. What else? Oh, I just
saw this, Thank you for sending it over. This is
a post by parn Baxter, who is the hang on
a second, the always got he him in his of
course he is the sits on the North Carolina Democrat
Party Executive Committee. He's in Union County, works for C
one in Charlotte as a recruiter. And he posted there
is absolutely a price for being a fascist. There is
a price for evil. All this he had a family
or he was only thirty one, It's all pure nonsense.
It's actually true. He was only thirty one and he
did have a family. Y'all. Doing this dance puts his
life over the countless lives of people that he danced
in the blood of this Democrat Party official from Union County.
Justifying the cold blooded murder of a political opponent, y'all
are literally doing the work of white supremacy by posting
or expressing more sadness when Charlie Bleeping Kirk, a hate mongerer,
dies than you did. When black people are killed, or
brown people are harassed, or Palestinians are smashed into gooey
red paste with our tax dollars that's proof of how
much internalized and embraced white supremacy is within so many
in America, left or rightmocrat or Republican. He says, we
are in fascism now. So this is the ideology that
motivated the shooter. That's why the carvings on the AMMO
are so important, because they speak to his radicalized vision.
He had on one of the casings bella Chow Chow
Chow Chow had it several times because that is the
refrain of an Italian folk song which translates to goodbye beautiful,
and according to the AI Wizard, it is suing sorry.
It is sung in both the original mundane version, which
dates back to the late nineteenth century and was sung
by female rice field workers in northern Italy protesting harsh
working conditions, and the later partisan version, which became associated
with the Italian resistance movement during World War II. What
is the Italian resistance movement in World War two? The
anti fascists, the Antifa. That's why he carved it on
the bullets. This is antifha related. And for people on
the left who are saying, oh, but look, he was
raised by like some you know, gun Lovin Republicans and yeah,
and then he went to college. I don't think this
is making the case that you think it's making that
he came from a Republican household, spent one year at
the college, and turned into an Antifa talk about indoctrination.
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