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When Katie Couric tried to bait Sen. John Fetterman into denouncing the slain conservative Charlie Kirk on her podcast, the Pennsylvania Democrat refused to take the cheap shot and instead kept the focus where it belonged — on the horror of the murder, not on a pile-on for ratings. Fetterman made it plain that he hadn’t done a “deep dive” into Kirk’s every utterance and that he saw no excuse for political violence, a rare moment of decency in today’s media circus.
That refusal matters, because too many in the media rush to weaponize tragedy for partisan gain. Fetterman’s stance — that free speech matters and that you don’t seize on a father’s public execution to score rhetorical points — was the kind of level-headed response our country ought to reward instead of sneering at.
Meanwhile, Couric’s line of questioning looked less like journalism and more like moral grandstanding, the same performative outrage routine that substitutes virtue for facts. Establishment figures who posture for clicks while pretending to mourn are the ones who do the real damage to public trust, because their anger is designed for engagement, not for truth.
Even voices outside the conservative sphere noticed the stunt — celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels called out Couric on Fox’s America Reports, condemning the “moral grandstanding and shaming for clicks” that turned a solemn subject into a gotcha moment. When independents and members of the cultural elite can see through the spectacle, ordinary Americans should be even more suspicious of media motives.
Let’s not forget how careless reporting has already muddied the waters: major outlets have had to walk back or correct partisan claims about Kirk, yet the rush to condemn him after his death was immediate and reflexive from the left. That’s exactly why principled restraint from public figures like Fetterman is so refreshing — it exposes the difference between genuine moral clarity and opportunistic outrage.
Hardworking Americans know the truth instinctively: decency isn’t selective and grief isn’t a cudgel. We expect our leaders and our press to act like adults, not carnival barkers, and we should hold them to that standard until they stop treating tragedy as a ratings bonanza.
If nothing else, this episode should remind voters that there are still figures in Washington willing to stand up for principle rather than surrender to the click-driven mob. That kind of backbone is rare these days, and it deserves to be pointed out — loudly and often — to anyone paying attention.
