Exposing the Big Lie

The assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10 by the radicalized 22-year-old boyfriend of a transgender male roommate has become a polarizing event eclipsing even last year’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a campaign rally. The day after the shooting MSNBC commenter Matthew Dowd said in an on-air interview that Kirk had been “one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.”  A day later Dowd was fired for making that statement. On his late night September 15 show, host Jimmy Kimmel told his audience “The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”  Two days later ABC announced it was pulling Kimmel’s show off the air indefinitely after two of ABC’s largest broadcast networks reported they would no longer air it.

Kirk’s assassination occurred two weeks after a radicalized and mentally ill transgender 23-year-old murdered two children and injured 18 others during a Catholic church service in Minneapolis. Police have released evidence indicating that the killer actually targeted the children.

It would be difficult to deny the fact that politically motivated violence is a significant problem in America. The 2016 mass shooting at Orlando’s popular gay nightclub, Pulse, which left 49 dead, was committed by a radicalized Afghani Muslim who claimed connections to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The 2020 George Floyd riots, which left at least 24 dead, destroyed parts of several cities and caused billions in damage, was coordinated by Black Lives Matter, a left-wing, non-profit supported and funded by progressive democrats. Much of the violence during these riots was committed by Antifa, a radical left wing terror group. The hundreds of pro-Palestine, anti Israel protests on college campuses have resulted in multiple assaults and at least 7 deaths. A significant number of elected democrats in Congress and state legislatures support the Palestinian cause and oppose Israel.

An article in the California Globe by Matthew Holloway breaks down the available data on political violence which has escalated across the country since 2016. While the national media and democrat political leaders consistently report that most political violence is committed by right-wing groups, the data indicate that the opposite is true:

Critics of narratives downplaying left-leaning violence often point to “official” stats from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and FBI, which purport to show right-wing dominance. But these figures crumble under scrutiny, riddled with methodological flaws, underreporting, and quiet revisions that serve political ends.

Start with the ADL: Their extremism reports, like the 2020 tally claiming ultra right-wing violence as the top threat, inflate numbers by lumping in non-ideological crimes—interpersonal violence in drug deals, botched robberies, or other non-political criminal activity as “extremist incidents.”

A Business Insider investigation found that only 58% of ADL-cited incidents from 2009-2018 were actually motivated by ideology, hate, or terrorism; the rest were just individual crimes. Examples abound: a 2015 family murder by a supposed extremist driven by domestic strife, or a 2008 KKK initiation gone wrong, counted as political violence despite no hate target. As the report warns, this “significantly increases the overall number of incidents,” eroding trust in the data and emboldening fear mongers.

As we reported in 2024, federal government data on politically important issues such as crime, Covid-19 deaths and employment has been proven to be unreliable in recent years. Changes in how the FBI gathers data for its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR) resulted in roughly one-third of the nation’s police departments failing to submit their crime statistics. Crimes in crime ridden places including New York City, Oakland and Los Angeles were not counted in the UCR. What this means is that a significant number of actual crimes and crime trends in the report are based on guesswork. It should surprise no one that the estimates in reports from federal government agencies run by political appointees are likely to favor the administration in power.

On September 16, a week after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, People Magazine reported on a study conducted by President Biden’s Department of Justice that opens with “Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” This “study” was released two months after a 20-year-old kitchen worker died while trying to assassinate candidate Donald Trump at a political rally.  While the shooter, Thomas Crooks, had contributed to the liberal democrat super-pac Act Blue, the news media quoted some who knew him saying he was “slightly right leaning or a “conservative.”

Is it just me, or does the release of this study and this week’s People article reporting on it seem just a little bit fishy?

The last election was an indication that the voting public is beginning to see through the false narratives of liberal politicians, government agencies and the media. The assassination of Charlie Kirk tragically reinforces the growing recognition the American’s have been and are still being lied to by the left and its mouthpieces in the media.  But this time some of the liars are being fired.