Charlie Kirk Says He’s Off Fox News And Its Hosts Are Now Barred From His Events: ‘They’re Not Allowed to Be Here’
Breitbart News
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said the rift between his organization and Fox News is alive and well.
Kirk, a pro-Trump activist, was once a regular on the air at Fox News. In turn, the network’s biggest stars were regular headliners at his TPUSA events. The relationship apparently collapsed earlier this year, with Kirk disappearing from the air at Fox and its talent disappearing from his events.
While Fox News has not publicly commented on the reasons behind the rift, some theories abound. TPUSA is a haven for conspiracy theories, most notably former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen. A Daily Beast report from July suggested the rift had something to do with Fox’s $787 million settlement with Dominion over those election lies, as the network feared having its hosts participate in events where such conspiracy theories were being pushed.
“Fox’s relationship with Turning Point is basically over,” a network source told the Beast. “They don’t want their talent associated with them anymore.”
What’s more, Kirk has been critical of the network. In the wake of Fox’s firing of Tucker Carlson earlier this year, Kirk slammed Fox. “I don’t know what they’re thinking,” Kirk said in an interview with Donald Trump Jr. He later accused a Fox News producer who invited him on the network of having pronouns in his email signature.
Kirk weighed in on the rift in an interview with Breitbart News earlier this week.
In an interview with Breitbart’s editor-in-chief Alex Marlow, Kirk said that his TPUSA event this year sold 13,000 tickets without any star power from Fox News. And while he said that he still has great affection for Fox News personalities like Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld, they “weren’t allowed” to be part of the event. Despite that, Kirk said “sometimes desperation is the mother of innovation,” so he leaned into “culture” for the event instead when considering his headliners.
Kirk framed this shift as a benefit:
I love Fox. They’ve been very good to me. I hope we can heal our relationship, because for whatever reason, it’s gone off the reservation. Since Tucker [Carlson]’s departure, I haven’t been on — and so, we had to do an event without Fox, and that was a great thing, man, because sometimes desperation is the mother of innovation, right? We kind of grew accustomed to — Jesse Watters, love him, Greg Gutfeld, love him — but that wasn’t a thing, we couldn’t do it, they’re not allowed to be here.
Kirk’s event generated headlines for all the wrong reasons. In a bizarre rant that went viral on social media, comedian Roseanne Barr stunned the crowd in a rant against… something.
“If we don’t stop these horrible communists. Do you hear me,” Barr screamed. “I’m asking you to hear me. Stalinists! Communists! With a huge helping of Nazi fascists thrown in!”
“Plus one caliphate,” she continued. “To replace every Christian democracy on Earth now! Occupy! Do you know that?!”
Read more and watch the interview at Breitbart News.
