On September 10, 2025, conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, a brazen attack that stunned the nation and left patriots searching for answers and justice. The killing happened in broad daylight at a campus event and instantly became the defining moment of a country fraying at the edges.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters and other conservative voices reacted with righteous anger, calling out a press corps that has spent years demonizing dissenting views and normalizing contempt for conservative thought. Watters warned that the media’s poisonous narratives help create a climate where violent acts can seem excusable to the radicalized left, and he urged accountability from those who peddle lies and hatred.
Let’s call this what it is: a media industrial complex that now appears to be copycatting its own worst instincts, repeating the same narratives, celebrating contempt for opponents, and then feigning shock when tragedy follows. For too long the mainstream press has trafficked in smears and hypocrisy—picking winners and losers in the public square while pretending to be neutral arbiters of truth.
Worse, institutions that should be bastions of free speech have shown themselves quick to punish and slow to defend conservatives, even as campus safety and honest debate are now front-and-center concerns. Administrations and some professors rushed to judgment and censure in the wake of the killing, exposing a double standard that treats conservative speech as toxic while shielding left-wing actors from scrutiny.
Conservative media and citizens will not stand mute while our leaders and thinkers are targeted and while the same cable channels and cultural elites who cheered the demonization of our people posture as victims. Fox News rightly dedicated prime-time space to memorialize Kirk and to call out the assault on the conservative movement, and patriots across the country are mourning while demanding a full, unflinching investigation and accountability.
Now is the time for law and order, clarity, and courage — not partisan theater or self-serving condemnation from those who helped fuel the fire. We must insist on prosecutions where deserved, protect free speech on campuses and in the media, and remove the rot of bias from institutions that were once trusted to inform, not inflame. America owes Charlie Kirk justice, and every hardworking patriot should stand ready to defend the country he loved and the principles he championed.