I think I praised a total of two leftists for their reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death, and both of them have now reversed themselves on their human decency. It is so disheartening.
Gavin Newsom
The first is California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Shame on him.
He invited Charlie on his podcast to be his inaugural guest. Charlie went and sat in the lion’s den with a far-left guy and was courteous to him. He did him the courtesy of bringing all these eyeballs to his show, and what does Gavin Newsom do? He betrays him.
Here is what Gavin said to Charlie about his son when they filmed that podcast earlier this year:
“Last night trying to put my son to bed, he’s like, ‘No, Dad… What time is Charlie gonna be here? What time?’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, you’re in school tomorrow.’ He’s 13. He’s like, ‘No, no.’ This morning, wakes up at six something. He’s like, ‘I’m coming’… He literally would not leave the house… The point is you are making a damn dent.”
So, his son was such an ardent fan that he begged Gavin Newsom to let him stay home from school and then was obviously very disappointed that he didn’t get to go to the interview. But here is Gavin Newsom with Elex Michaelson on CNN Monday with an entirely different description of what went down:
MICHAELSON: Your son, obviously a fan of Charlie Kirk. What was the conversation like between you and your son after Charlie Kirk was assassinated?
NEWSOM: He called me. I don’t know how he got a phone, but he called me from school that day, really alarmed, and all his friends were around the phone that wanted to meet us about express or understand what was going on. He wanted to know if he was dead. He wasn’t a fan of him as much as he was familiar. It was very revelatory for me because he’s also out there, my son is 11, 12 years old, he’s sitting there talking to me about not just Charlie Kirk, but folks like Andrew Tate and these, you know, sort of beyond Joe Rogan in many ways, sort of Facebook, in so many respects, of, sort of this novelty of, of the pod manosphere, etc. And it was so interesting to me, in that context, that he knew so much about Kirk. And that was a true story. He didn’t know what he was saying or stand for. He didn’t even have a strong position himself.
Oh, okay. That is why he begged his father to let him meet Charlie, to skip school, and got up early just so he could shake Charlie’s hand – it was just because of his familiarity, not his fandom?
And by the way, in that same interview, he said Trump “exploited” the problems of young men to get elected. By that do you mean he helped them? He saw them, heard them, recognized what they were going through and gave voice to it and promised them that he was going to stop it. And then, on day one of his administration, reversed many of the policies that had been so demonizing them as a matter of policy by the Biden administration. Is that exploiting them? He is still not able to get honest about it.
Shame on him for his dishonesty about Charlie and, really, everything when it comes to Gavin Newsom.
Jamie Lee Curtis
The second person is Jamie Lee Curtis. As you may recall, she became emotional talking about Charlie on an episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast that was released five days after he was killed. We gave her credit at the time because even though she has a trans kid and didn’t love where Charlie was on the trans issue, she recognized a man had been killed. This is a bit of what she said on that day:
“I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say. But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith. Even though I find what his ideas were abhorrent to me, I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever ‘connection to God’ means, that he felt it.”
Now, she gave an interview to Variety for the “Power of Women” issue that came out this week and walked back her sympathy:
“An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well — like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God. And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not. In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza. You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way.’”
Interviewer Trish Deitch wrote that when she asked Curtis if “being a public figure, she must have to be careful,” the actress sat up straight and glared at her before “sharply” responding: “I don’t have to be careful. If I was careful, I wouldn’t have told you any of what I just told you. I would have just said, ‘Hi, welcome. I baked you banana bread. Here’s my dog. Here’s my house, blah, blah, blah. What do you want to know?’ I can’t not be who I am in the moment I am.”
That is completely dishonest. She walked this back because she clearly got blowback over it. If she really were this fearless person who would say anything – consequences be damned – she wouldn’t feel such an urge to make sure people knew she was “mistranslated” into people thinking that she wished him well, which she very much wants us to know she did not.
‘Show Your Humanity’
A poll hit yesterday from M3 Strategies, which surveyed 459 likely 2026 Democratic primary election voters in Illinois. Many of the questions focused on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy, with some 42 percent of Democratic primary voters saying violence is “sometimes” or “mostly” acceptable to stop ICE and 71 percent wanting “ICE officers to be prosecuted when Democrats take back control of the federal government.”
But the survey also found that 81 percent of Dem primary voters agree with the statement that “Trump and many of his supporters are like Nazis.” Less than 20 percent disagree with that sentiment. What does this say about the Democratic Party?
It tells us that Charlie is looked at as ‘the enemy’ by the left. And all that, I feel, actively endangers those of us who are on the right and who are out there speaking to crowds and trying to keep the conversation going. And I really resent it.
I think this is the time to show your humanity. That is what the American people want to see. They want to see your humanity. They don’t want further division right now, and yet that is all we’re getting from them.
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