Cultural Decay Leading to Left Celebrating Violence, and Defining "Hate Speech," with The Fifth Column | Ep. 1150
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1 hour and 43 minutes
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177.17065
Summary
On this morning's show, we have breaking news as we learn more about the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination, Tyler Robinson. Plus, there's a debate about hate speech in America, and what should be done about it.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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We have breaking news this morning as we are learning more about the Charlie Kirk assassination.
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Plus, there is a big debate breaking out over what to be done about hate speech in America.
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It's part of being American. Too bad. You don't like it? Speak the opposite.
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That's the answer. You're American. That's how we do it here.
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There's nothing wrong with hate speech. Sorry. Not legally.
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There's nothing for a prosecutor to do, an attorney general to do.
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The only thing you do is to speak louder with your POV. That's it.
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But we're going to start with what FBI Director Kash Patel just told Senator Josh Hawley
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about an online chat group involving alleged shooter Tyler Robinson. Watch.
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Unfortunately, it has been leaked that there was a Discord chat.
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And for those unfamiliar with it, it's a gaming chat room online that the suspect participated in.
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And so what we're doing, we've already done a sort of legal process, not just on Discord,
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so that the information we gathered is sustained and held in an evidentiary posture that we could use in prosecution,
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And we're also going to be investigating anyone and everyone involved in that Discord chat.
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Okay, very good. I see the public reports that the Discord thread had as many as 20 additional users.
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It sounds like you're trying to run down all of that to see if that's accurate,
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who else may have been on that thread, what they may have known. Is that fair to say?
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It's a lot more than that. We're running them all down.
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A lot more than 20. That makes sense. If you listen to AM Update today, we laid out the list of just alleged ex-accounts
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and online social media posts before Charlie's assassination promising something devastating was going to happen to him on September 10th.
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It's going to be very hard for somebody to actually meaningfully argue that these people had no foreknowledge.
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By the way, on AM Update, we attributed most of that reporting to the Washington Free Beacon, which did do a good report.
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But the person who broke all of this was someone online who goes by Aesthetica.
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And this was the person who actually broke all that news, and it should have been properly attributed.
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Tyler Robinson is due to make his first court appearance later this afternoon, where we are expecting to learn exactly which charges he faces.
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He's supposed to be in court at 3 p.m. Utah time.
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I think that's right, 3 p.m. Utah time, which would be 5 p.m. here.
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And two hours before that, they're expected to release more details on the charges, which would be 1 p.m. Utah time at 3 p.m. Eastern.
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Joining me now to react to all of this are pals from The Fifth Column podcast, Camille Foster, editor-at-large for Tangle News, Michael Moynihan, host of The Moynihan Report on 2A, and Matt Welsh, editor-at-large for Reason.
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You can find all of their work and subscribe at wethefifth.com.
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And you'll find them on the road with me for Megyn Kelly Live, our tour starting next month.
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I actually haven't even gotten to speak to you about the tour, about Charlie, about anything.
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Yeah, you can just put us around you in chairs.
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We haven't had anybody try to cancel on us so far.
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And as I was reading your names, you know, it's like, I thought of Charlie, because it's
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like, he came on the show almost as frequently as you guys did, and our relationship goes back
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further, but he was here almost as often as you guys are.
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And I, you know, it's like, I feel the way about his loss the way I'd feel if, God forbid,
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We don't go for dinners a lot, but we know each other.
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I can't think of a lot of friends I have spent this much time with.
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You know, if you look at the number of times you've come on, let's just take the last six
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months, you know, like, we spent election together, the election night, all of it.
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These relationships you form with the people who you interview and spend time with in this
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And I'm still so just upset about Charlie and just reading all the leftist freak outs
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You know, they have a little TDS over there, but it's fine.
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He wrote this earlier before the Charlie assassination.
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It was after poor Irina was murdered on the train.
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I fear we're on the verge of a great societal breakdown, one right out of the late sixties
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and early seventies, and we are not prepared for it.
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The atrocity in Minneapolis is but one articulated edge in a far larger fractal pattern of violence
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Once the progress was imperceptibly slow, but technology has proven to be the accelerant.
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The threat is pre-political, generational, and perhaps even civilizational.
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Things are falling apart, crumbling at both the margins and the center of our societal self-conception.
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So he writes this and then he writes the following, which I want to kick it off with you guys on.
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I want to express my burning contempt for the social media charade that I and every other
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The experience of watching Charlie murdered and then watching vast numbers of propagandists
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and people who know better tell us the Kirk was actually shot from a far right,
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Groiper or a Nick Fuentes fan or a MAGA true believer, anyone but a person associated with
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a left-coated cause, which Occam's razor already suggested was the likely reality.
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As each new detail trickled out and the killer's transgender associations became clearer and clearer,
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the hysterical spin and assertions of blunt unreality mounted.
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Cynical pros began inserting outright lies into the mix as partisans took up their work
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and used it in desperate craven attempts to either spin facts in ridiculous ways,
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his parents are Republicans, or simply pretend the facts weren't facts at all.
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All of it was done with the intent of trying to will into existence through the spread of fear,
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uncertainty and doubt, an alternate narrative whose intended moral calculus amounted to,
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in so many words, Charlie Kirk was killed by his own team and this is actually your fault.
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Totally agree with and endorse every word of that.
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The gaslighting that we have been subjected to over the past five or six days is infuriating
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and it's like even more so, it's like unsettling.
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Before we even get started, Megan, I just want to say on behalf of the boys,
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since they're going to elbow me in the throat before all of that,
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we watched you as you were struggling with this on air
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and just kudos for you for elbowing your way through it.
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I know how I only begin to imagine how rough that is.
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And then also for you doing what Ben Shapiro did,
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but his response to this, like yours, is the correct one.
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Which is something that Charlie Kirk exuded in his bones.
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It's terrifying to watch how many people have talked themselves
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Heather Cox Richardson, I think the most popular substacker.
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Out there, incredibly successful, an academic of some sort.
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Just sort of out there stating as kind of fact now,
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that I guess they're saying he's a left groiper.
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I know, groepers is a term that is generally used
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as the, one of the OG modern day online white supremacists.
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with these like frogs, Pepe the Frog, whatever.
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like a white supremacist who follows Nick Fuentes, a groiper.
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And there's even some, uh, preliminary survey data
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that, um, that, that is going to be an epistemic bubble
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to absolutely every, uh, tragedy, uh, uh, violent,
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act of violence, especially if it's politicized,
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It's okay not to state with a thousand percent certainty X.
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Um, but please don't state with a thousand percent certainty
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And it is revealing, uh, to see who is doing that right now.
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and the institutions that we consume with in media.
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and friend of all three of ours, uh, Jeff Blair
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Megan do that in real time and pivot, uh, very quickly.
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was, I think, pretty helpful to a lot of people.
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But one of the things that's really interesting
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Why is this different than all of the other examples
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That's should be obvious, but it is kind of interesting
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an episode of the fifth column with our listeners
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who's probably totally forgotten about by people
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But that was, um, the only one I could really think of.
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Whereas this was, you know, somebody who had ideas.