In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death last September, many on the right criticized some on the left for mocking, and in some cases, celebrating the death of the conservative pundit. (While there were certainly bad actors on the internet doing just that, no prominent voices on the left celebrated Kirk’s death; most issued statements about how murder over political differences is never justified.)
Matt Walsh, another polarizing pundit on the right, was among those who were outraged, though he made it about himself: If he were gunned down, even his harshest critics on the right would be mourning his loss, Walsh said on his podcast after Kirk’s death.
Meanwhile, for those on the left, his murder would be “unanimous cause for celebration.”
“They would spit on my grave, they would laugh at my grieving wife and my six children who now have to grow up without a father,” the commentator said.
Despite casting the right as a moral standard-bearer, Walsh himself seems to have no qualms about attacking the recently deceased, so long as they held liberal views.
