Sewer: The NYT was signalling to its audience that Kirk was not really a victim

In civilisational terms, the murder of Charlie Kirk was a random act by a deranged individual whose contemptible motives deserve little analysis and even less mercy. Let one ten-rupee bullet settle what another began, while good America contemplates the loss of an irreplaceable son.

But this is not America’s burden alone, for the crisis afflicts all Western societies, with the mounting anger amongst working class peoples at the endless assaults on their values and their identity by the media, “human rights lawyers” and liberal-left governments. The vast demonstration in London against illegal immigration on Saturday, organised by the British-Irish dissident Tommy Robinson, repeated the message, as the Union flags of the UK, the cross of St George and even an occasional Irish tricolour were proudly waved — but the banners of the Palestinian suicide-cult were not.

That starker reality has still not been grasped by a prime culprit in this crisis: The media. The New York Times, once a boring-recorder of the truth, wherein a reporter’s political opinions were as undetectable as an eye-surgeon’s while minutely removing a tiny metal shard from a baby’s optic nerve, is now a front-page campaigner against Donald Trump, Israel et alia and for the woke ideological sewer. Where it leads others follow, most notably the BBC, The Guardian and The Irish Times, as do legions of indoctrinated students of media-studies courses across the anglophone world.

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the NYT immediately went into turbocharged hyper-liberalism, its initial report stating nine-times over that the victim was a right-winger – which, to the savvy, liberal-left mindset, means neo-Nazi. Its headline asked, “Who was Charlie Kirk, the right-wing provocateur shot in Utah?” Helpfully, it replied: A Conservative influencer, a shaper of the hard-right movement whose right-wing tweets were unencumbered by inconvenient facts. Whereas, it continued, other activists were baldly racist and homophobic, Mr Kirk (ah, the exquisitely Uriah Heepish Mr!) was polished and could tack quickly among the far-right (again, sigh). But worse still (it sobbed), he had attacked the Word Health Organisation, which, typically, he called the “Wuhan Health Organisation” and – oh, how could he, the bwute! – even claiming that Covid-19 had emerged from a lab in Wuhan.

Enough already. That is precisely where it came from.

The NYT concluded that Kirk had “spread unsupported claims and outright lies.” A lie is “a knowingly uttering falsehood”, and it was the NYT that was lying, but what matter? By profligately deploying so many trigger-words, the rag was signalling to its liberal, code-literate audience that Kirk was not really a victim. Far from this travesty being withdrawn once conscience and a consciousness of its odiousness finally dawned, it stayed up and was reprinted in The Irish Times. That same newspaper later carried a grotesque distortion, by one Johana Bhuiyan, of a news-conference given by Kirk’s grieving widow Erika, whom Bhuiyan, referred to as “Ms Kirk”, a studiedly sectarian insult to a Christian woman who believes in traditional marriage.

“Using divisive language and at times bigoted rhetoric, Mr Kirk played a crucial role in bringing young people, especially men, into the Make America Great Again … movement,” Bhuiyan continued, with the same measured, feminist malice. “He was known for his inflammatory and discriminatory views, believed in no separation between church and state…”

The author of this attack on a man who allegedly believed in “no separation between church and state” is a hijab-wearing Muslim. Another person not mourning Kirk was George Abaraonye, the half-African incoming President of the Oxford Students Union who joyously tweeted. “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s fu*king go” and “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”, ie, “laughing ooout loud”.

Yes, that’s right, laughing out loud, from a treacherous toad with whom Kirk had spoken at great and courteous length when visiting Oxford earlier this year. Perhaps few of the thousands who gathered in London on Saturday were aware of all this, but they would certainly know about the mass rape of tens of thousands of white working-class English girls by Bhuiyan’s fellow-Muslims. For over twenty years, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Department of Public Prosecutions did virtually nothing to curb this industrial-scale mass-rape, (legal equation simple: Underage white + she-proles = rapeable) and the head of both departments for five of those years was Sir Keir Starmer, today the UK’s Prime Minister. The same learned gentleman and King’s Counsel has proclaimed that a woman can have a penis, and naturally saw no reason not to appoint Sir Peter Mandelson as the UK’s Ambassador to the USA. This, despite what both MI5 and MI6 must have told him of the weirdly close friendship between Mandelson and the convicted child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein – “my best pal”, simpered Mandelson tearfully – even after Epstein had been imprisoned for raping up to forty girls, one aged fourteen.

Perhaps no prime minister in British history personally embodies what most ordinary Britons detest about their homeland, but Britain is not alone. Across Europe, horrified citizens observe the hypocrisy of the liberal-left media and courts, especially in Germany, where the dissident AfD thrives on what ordinary Germans know to be the media’s outrageous lies. So, the chief correspondent of state broadcaster ZDF, Elmar Thewessen, claimed that Kirk had called for “stoning homosexuals” (untrue). On the same network’s heute journal the ethnically-Assyrian presenter Dunja Hayali began: “Kirk’s murder cannot be justified,” then effectively justified it, citing his “abhorrent, racist, sexist and misanthropic statements” and his role as a “radical-religious conspiracy adherent”.
So, no agenda there, then.

That these obsequies were factually 100 per cent wrong matters far less than the malevolence that had motivated and then editorially authorised them: No right-minded conservative would ever have unleashed such foul allegations about a recently-murdered liberal. As we have seen, comparable double-standards have been evident in the USA, but at least the White House leads a coherent opposition to such vileness. In Ursula von der Leyen’s abject Europe, there is no equivalent push-back against left-liberal, multicultural courtroom fascists. This is not a lazy invocation of Godwin’s Law, but a very deliberate restatement of that mighty yet much-derided virtue: The Truth.

Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist, author and broadcaster. He has reported on the wars in Northern Ireland, where he worked throughout the 1970s, Beirut and Bosnia.