Jonathan Karl says Kirk's assassination 'wasn't a political act'

On Sunday’s episode of ABC’s This Week, host Jonathan Karl furrowed his brow somberly and, with the resonant tones honed at anchor school, looked into the camera and declared, “The murder of Charlie Kirk was not a political act.”

Legacy news talking heads have twisted themselves into human drill bits to obscure Tyler Robinson’s motive for assassinating Kirk. First, the crazed effort to cast Robinson as a “Groyper” swept through the establishment’s media channels, culminating in Jimmy Kimmel’s recitation of this blatant lie to his audience on Monday. Others have been more subtle, blaming the killing on “gun violence” and stressing the “both sides” nature of political violence.