The Albuquerque Journal’s front page story on the murder of Charlie Kirk didn’t impress me one bit. The entire story could have been boiled down to one paragraph of who, what, when, and where but rather than do that or issue a mea culpa on the Journal’s MeToo mind-swaying daily Democrat propaganda that surely contributed to this death, this paper has chosen to defend itself with a two-author behemoth article that incorporates everyone from Solomon Pena to Nancy Pelosi’s husband. In fact, I’d say the writers of the article moved so quickly away from Charlie Kirk that they could have blamed political violence on the extinction of the dinosaurs, as well.
Nowhere, though, do the authors bring up the transgender murderers of late or mention that, as the FBI revealed, the bullet casings in Kirk’s killer’s rifle had transgender and anti-fascist remarks etched on them. I guess when you’re cherry picking assassins, you forget things like that.
What gets me, though, is the rather insincere and expected concern of our New Mexico Congressional Democrat delegation with their typical ‘opposition to political violence’ refrain. Hell, Democrats have been killing Republicans since Abraham Lincoln (he was the U.S. president during the Civil War in case you went to public school). I wish they really meant what they said.
Another thing that got to me was calling Kirk controversial and conservative. I remember when believing in God put you in the mainstream of America. Now it’s considered controversial by today’s atheistic editorial staffs whose beliefs lie more in the worship of their bank accounts above any supreme deity. Where did the churches of America go wrong?
But I guess it was necessary to end the article with the Gotcha! statement of Kirk being for the Second Amendment and then, ironically, being assassinated with a rifle. What does that have to do with anything? He probably believed in brushing his teeth, too, and there he was, with spinach still in his teeth from lunch, as he lay dying. You could have ended that screed with that poignant observation and made a ringing endorsement for dental hygiene at the same time.
Given the monstrosity we witnessed, the authors should have stuck to a one-paragraph wrap-up.
© Clyde James Aragon
