Greg Gutfeld Pours Cold Water on Blaming Left for Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘Feels Professional’
Greg Gutfeld offered a surprisingly unifying take following the tragic assassination of conservative thought leader Charlie Kirk on Wednesday’s episode of The Five.
Kirk was gunned down during an appearance at Utah Valley University around midday on Wednesday, and was pronounced dead just a couple of hours later. The school announced via statement that the alleged shooter — who is still at large — killed Kirk with a single shot fired from 200 yards away.
During a conversation focused on some deeply irresponsible comments made on MSNBC that immediately put the tragic events in a partisan context, Gutfeld refused to try to either explain, defend, or even mock Matthew Dowd’s literally blaming the victim.
“He’s one of the most divisive — especially divisive younger figures in this — who has constant a sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups,” Dowd offered on MSNBC, a clip of which aired on The Five. “And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which then lead to hateful actions.”
“Well, I mean, he is right for the wrong reasons,” Gutfeld reasoned. “Hateful words do lead to a full actions and it was his side that had pretty much ran the gamut, calling everybody hitler and Nazis. Instead of viewing people as wrong, viewing them as evil. I think that Matthew Dowd — I won’t criticize him because I think there is something wrong with him,” he added. “I do think I feel like it is such a strange thing to say when somebody is shot and near death — he said it before he was confirmed dead — like what is going on in that man’s head?”
“It’s interesting — you know, we don’t know who did this,” Gutfeld noted. “But I do know it doesn’t help the left. Which makes me think, is it the left? I don’t know. I don’t know. We don’t know. But it feels professional.”
Gutfeld has become well known for his own provocative style of conservative politics, but revealed that he is still very much an outlier, offering a nuanced explanation amid a sea of conservative social media anger and finger-pointing at the left and its own over-the-top rhetoric, and how that played into this tragedy.
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