Hey y’all, welcome back to Unfit to Print.
I just finished catching up on the speeches from the memorial service for Charlie Kirk in Arizona. I would’ve liked to attend, but I had prior familial obligations. If any readers were able to make it, feel free to send me an email about your experience.
EVIL HATES THE LIGHT
The nearly 100,000 people who showed up for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Sunday celebrated the life of a great man and his deep Christian faith. They sang worship songs, heard top administration officials unflinchingly speak of Charlie’s devotion to the Lord, witnessed tales of good versus evil, watched Erika Kirk publicly forgive her husband’s murderer — as Christ asked God to forgive his torturers — and embraced each other in fellowship.
As Erika said, it was a revival.
Those who hate Charlie and his message — and those who hate Christ and his message — were confused.
As my friend Geoffrey Ingersoll wrote yesterday in State of the Day, “On this spectacle of courageous positivity, the Grinches of the world looked down … and their hearts turned to ash.”
They seethed when they saw that the memorial featured pyrotechnic displays — a staple of Turning Point USA events and something Charlie personally loved. They ranted and raved about President Donald Trump’s onstage acknowledgment that he was not as good as Charlie, that he did hate his opponents and wished ill on them. He’s a hypocrite, they hissed. Yes, of course — and as Charlie showed us, Jesus offers us the promise of transformation and forgiveness for our sins.
Most importantly, they could not understand how so many people could express joy in death.
Andrew Kolvet, the producer of the Charlie Kirk Show and a dear friend to Charlie, explained how it is possible.
“Our hearts are grieving, but we do not grieve as the world grieves, because it says in Scripture: 'O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ Christ has overcome death,” Kolvet said.
In the nearly two weeks since Charlie’s murder, Americans prayed again. They went to church again. They made donations. They started TPUSA chapters. They wanted to fight for Charlie’s vision, and they wanted to experience the joy and peace he so often shared with the world.
America is coming back into the light.
And evil hates it.
In response to good, evil writhes in pain and lashes out in anger. As much beauty as we’ve seen in the past two weeks, we’ve seen plenty of evil, too.
An elderly man falsely confessed to shooting Charlie to help the real assassin escape.
Sisters vandalized a memorial put up for Charlie Kirk at an Arkansas courthouse.
Two people attempted to bomb a truck belonging to a local Fox affiliate.
A left-wing lawyer shot up a local ABC affiliate after the network pulled late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
A man shot up a country club in New Hampshire after allegedly yelling “Free Palestine.”
The Democracy Institute released a new poll on political violence that surveyed 1,500 likely voters and was conducted September 13-16.
51% of Democrats say they hate some people because they hold different political views than them. 39% of Republicans and 22% of independents say the same. 31% of Democrats say violence can be justified to achieve political goals, compared to 19% of Republicans and 11% of independents.
The fight is not over. Evil will retaliate as our country verges on a breakthrough. We must don the armor of God and march on.
From the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians: “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
WHAT ELSE IS ON MY RADAR
My friend Maggie Cleary Kilgore was appointed to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. She is an exceptionally qualified pick and incredibly smart. She previously served as special counsel to Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and was the deputy commonwealth’s attorney in Culpeper County. (Full disclosure: Maggie and I went to college together.)
The left is scared of her, so they immediately tried to smear her. Online influencer Brian Krassenstein called Maggie a “Jan 6th protester and conspiracy theorist” and decried her appointment as “fascism.” Politico was less overt in its defamation of Maggie, but nonetheless implied she was involved in something untoward: “[Cleary] once said she was ‘framed’ for Jan. 6 because of her conservative views.”
The truth is Maggie was framed for Jan. 6. An unknown tipster falsely told the Roanoke Times that they had seen Maggie photographed at the Capitol on Jan. 6 carrying a broken piece of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi sign. The person in the photo was not her.
Nonetheless, the DOJ grilled her for two hours as she was forced to prove her innocence. She provided them with evidence that she was never at the Capitol that day: cellphone records, a logged Peloton ride, and receipts from a Target in Culpeper.
“At the end of nearly two hours of questioning, and recording my responses, the agents left. A few hours later, I received a call that I had been cleared to go back to work,” Maggie wrote of the ordeal. “I never received anything in writing.”
It was a witch hunt. She was lucky she had proof of her whereabouts that day, else they probably would’ve tried to throw her in prison. Now, the left is using the false accusation to try again to destroy her career.
What’s that I hear about right-wing cancel culture?
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