America woke up this month to the cowardly assassination of Charlie Kirk — a brutal act that exposed a violent fringe and the moral rot in parts of our culture. Instead of uniting in grief and demanding justice, too many in the liberal media rushed to paint this as a generic, bipartisan problem, an outrageously false equivalence that shields the real culprits. The truth is simple: praising or rationalizing political violence is indefensible, and pretending both sides are equally to blame is part of the problem, not the solution.
On programs where Americans expect sober analysis, viewers watched anchors and pundits try to “both sides” the massacre as if nuance could erase culpability, with some late-night hosts even attempting to rewrite their own words after backlash. That kind of performative centrism is a cover for cowardice — an attempt to have it both ways while protecting the ideological allies who cheered the violence. Conservatives smelled the rotten compromise immediately and called it out as what it is: media malpractice and moral failure.
Kari Lake, speaking with Rob Schmitt, spoke for millions of patriotic Americans when she refused to let the media off the hook and demanded honesty about motives and consequences. Lake’s grief for Kirk was matched by righteous anger at a press corps that so often excuses or soft-pedals the left’s worst excesses while weaponizing every misstep on our side. This isn’t about partisan scorekeeping; it’s about protecting basic civility and ensuring political disagreement never morphs into murder.
Other conservative leaders have been just as blunt, rejecting the “both sides” canard and naming the networks of radicalism that fuel these attacks. Voices like Senator Eric Schmitt and Vice President J.D. Vance have rightly insisted this is not a symmetrical crisis — there is a clear trend of radical left-wing hostility that must be exposed and dismantled. When establishment outlets insist on false balance, they become accessories to the violence by obscuring its true origins.
Practical accountability must follow moral clarity: platforms that tolerated celebratory posts, publications that publish hit pieces justifying murder, and hosts who equivocate should face consequences. Congress, law enforcement, and the public must follow the money, the networks, and the narratives that radicalize otherwise isolated actors, and the families of victims deserve honest reporting rather than spin. We cannot restore safety or sanity with apologies and platitudes; we need real reform of the cultural ecosystem that incubates hate.
Patriots across this country must refuse the media’s demand that we accept a sanitized version of reality that protects the left’s allies and excuses their extremism. Stand with grieving families, demand fair investigations, and support outlets that report the truth without ideological cover. If we want a safer, freer America, we have to call out hypocrisy, hold wrongdoers accountable, and never let the press hide behind “both sides” to excuse political murder.
