Buckle up, friends, things are about to get spicy in here. And I'm talking about Sean Spicer's brutal and supremely accurate take down of the "but both sides" argument being used by some to explain away Wednesday's assassination of Charlie Kirk.
It all unfolded Thursday on the The Morning Meeting, the Zoom-based news show hosted by Mark Halperin and co-hosted by Spicer and his Democrat counterpart, Dan Turrentine. They devoted the entire episode to discussing Charlie Kirk and political violence; the video is posted at the bottom of this article, but be forewarned that the tone-deafness of two of three hosts is off-the-charts and will make your blood boil.
Halperin kicked off the show, confoundingly, by asking Spicer to explain to the left why conservatives are so angry in the wake of Kirk's murder (as if it weren't glaringly obvious). Spicer didn't mince his words in responding.
SPICER: I am conflicted because I'm sad for Charlie and his family and what happened. But I'm pissed. As a Christian, I don't know how to reconcile that sometimes.
I'm tired of the left, the rhetoric. Charlie, what he symbolized was a movement. What he did in leading this movement, in putting himself out there can't be overstated.
Spicer went on to explain that Charlie Kirk, much like Donald Trump, was an enigma. Whereas Trump was a unicorn of a presidential candidate, Kirk a unicorn as an organizer and activist. He continued:
SPICER: This violence, in all of its forms, is wrong. But when you go after Donald Trump and try to kill him twice -- they're not just going after people who are activists, they're going after leaders of movements and trying to stop them. Not just stop the people, but the movement. And that's the big difference here. Violence and extremism and craziness is one thing, but when you're trying to silence Trump and you're trying to silence Charlie Kirk, you're not just going after them personally, you're going after the entire movement. And I don't think people fully appreciate that.
This calls to mind the famous Trump quote.
Charlie, Spicer correctly noted, was standing in the way. Not only that, the violence from the left has been building for a long time now.
SPICER: This is not one person, one thing, one month. This has been manifesting for decades. The left silencing, censoring, canceling people didn't just happen with the rise of Donald Trump. My college commencement speaker was canceled because a group of people thought his positions on certain issues were unacceptable.
We've been told to shut up, we've been canceled, censored for decades. This is gonna change.
What followed was an attempt by the hosts not named Spicer to make it a "both sides" thing, a premise Sean firmly rejected. No, J6 is not like a man being assassinated for his political and religious beliefs. Just stop with that.
When asked by Halperin if he "excused" the president for mocking the attack on Paul Pelosi, Spicer went scorched earth.
SPICER: Understand, there's a difference. Because two sides get hurt or say stupid shit, that it's equal, is not true. We on the right have been canceled, censored for decades. Told we can't go there, shut out of events. Literally told we can't take jobs. It's not the same!
But, wait, there's more:
SPICER: The left will not allow the people on the right to speak their minds or have a voice. So this whole argument about "both sides" -- I can coexist with people on the left. God knows there are plenty of them -- I live in Northern Virginia. But the people on the left don't want to coexist with people on the right. That is the fundamental difference.
Sean Spicer got it exactly right. Despite the protestations from the left and their water carriers in the media, this is not about “both sides.” It’s about the destructive left-wing culture that has spent decades trying to silence conservatives — and now that roiling hatred has crossed a deadly line.
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