Sen. Kennedy criticizes ABC’s sympathetic portrayal of Charlie Kirk’s killer on Fox News.
On Fox News Tuesday night, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) once again proved why he’s one of the sharpest and most quotable voices in Washington, delivering a blistering takedown of ABC’s Matt Gutman after Gutman described the text messages of Charlie Kirk’s accused killer as “touching” and “intimate.”
Laura Ingraham set the stage by noting Gutman’s framing of the relationship between the suspect and his transitioning roommate. As you likely heard already, ABC’s Matt Gutman painted a bizarre picture of the accused killer of Charlie Kirk, highlighting not only the chilling details of the crime but also what he described as the “touching” relationship between the suspect and his transitioning roommate.
“We have seen… an alleged murder with such specific text messages about the alleged murder weapon, where it was hidden, how it was placed, what was on it,” Gutman said. But instead of focusing on that alone, he added, “it was very touching in a way that I think many of us didn’t expect. A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate… and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate… ‘My love,’ and ‘I want to protect you, my love.’”
Gutman framed the situation as a “duality,” pointing out that while the suspect “jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd” and did so “in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case,” he was at the same time “speaking so lovingly about his partner.
