Watching Kaitlan Collins press Rep. Ilhan Omar on live television was a rare moment of honesty from the corporate media: Collins plainly called out a reposted video that literally described Charlie Kirk as “Dr. Frankenstein” whose “monster shot him through the neck,” and asked Omar why she would share that in the wake of a man’s murder. Omar didn’t apologize; she defended the reshared clip and doubled down on denouncing Kirk’s legacy, insisting his life should be tossed into the “dustbin of history.”
Make no mistake about what happened to Charlie Kirk: he was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, in a shocking act of political violence that has sent ripples across the country and prompted criminal charges against the accused shooter, Tyler Robinson. Prosecutors have charged Robinson with aggravated murder and several other counts, and Utah officials say they will seek the harshest penalties available given the apparent targeting of a public political figure.
Despite that national trauma, Omar reshared a graphic TikTok-style clip that likened Kirk to Frankenstein and conceded she “agreed with” much of its critique of him — a moral failure none of us should accept from a sitting member of Congress. The CNN exchange shows Collins trying, almost incredulously, to pull the conversation back toward basic decency, reminding viewers that Kirk was a husband and a father, yet Omar persisted in excusing and rationalizing the repost.
Conservative commentators and independent voices have rightly seized on that moment, with hosts like Dave Rubin amplifying the clip and asking a straightforward question: how can someone in public office amplify rhetoric that echoes the words of the attacker so soon after a killing? Rubin’s DM clip of Collins’ reaction captured something most of the lefty press tried to dance around — that the instinct among many on the radical left is to weaponize tragedy into political talking points rather than offer genuine sympathy.
The political system has also failed to deliver accountability. Republicans moved to censure Omar and strip her of committee assignments, only to see that effort tabled in the House when a handful of members defected and Democrats rallied to block the measure. That result left millions of Americans feeling there are two standards in Washington: one for conservative leaders whose very lives are threatened, and a softer standard for party-aligned elites who traffic in poisonous rhetoric.
Enough talk about “nuance” and “context” while families grieve. Conservatives believe in free speech, but free speech is not a license to amplify dehumanizing language when bullets have already been fired. If members of Congress cannot be held to a higher standard of decency after a politically motivated assassination, then we are surrendering the moral authority of public life to the worst instincts of our political class.
Patriots, take notice: this episode is a test of whether America still honors basic human decency over partisan tribalism. Demand that your representatives enforce consequences for rhetoric that incites or glorifies violence, insist the media stop protecting those who normalize it, and keep watching and sharing the moments—like Kaitlan Collins’ stunned questioning—that expose the rot at the heart of the radical left.
