Reporters Comments Following Press Conference Raise Eyebrows

What I’m about to walk you through is not satire. It’s not a meme. It’s not a Babylon Bee headline. It is, somehow, reality. And if you’re not already bracing for the cultural freefall we’re in, buckle up—because the floor just dropped another 20 feet.

Charlie Kirk is dead. Murdered. Gunned down in front of a crowd, in broad daylight, while doing what he always did: speaking his mind, standing up for conservative values, and engaging with the public. That alone should’ve been the headline. That should be the national focus.

But no. Because we now live in a country where mainstream reporters aren’t horrified by the killing of a political commentator—they’re busy swooning over the murderer’s text messages.

And so we have a new narrative:

After prosecutors announced formal charges against Tyler Robinson—the 22-year-old killer who, according to his own texts, shot Charlie Kirk because he thought Kirk was “spreading hatred” that “could not be negotiated with”—you might expect the media to focus on the chilling premeditation. The ideological motive. The way his messages showed a mind completely detached from reality and morally warped beyond comprehension.

But nope.

ABC News took a different approach. One that somehow managed to paint the shooter as the real victim of this story.

ABC’s Matt Gutman, standing on national television with all the gravity and seriousness of a true crime journalist, described the killer’s text messages as… “touching.” His exact words. Touching.

Not terrifying. Not psychotic. Not blood-chilling. Touching.

Gutman described the shooter’s relationship with his trans-identifying “roommate” as an “intimate portrait,” highlighting how Robinson repeatedly texted phrases like “my love” and “I want to protect you.” You’d think he was reading lines from The Notebook, not the confession of a cold-blooded murderer who shot a man through the neck in front of children.