The murder of Charlie Kirk has exposed not only the dangers of radical ideology but also the depths to which the media will contort itself to avoid acknowledging reality. On Tuesday night, CNN hosted yet another panel bent on obscuring the obvious — and if not for Scott Jennings, viewers would have been left with nothing but a haze of euphemism, excuse-making, and narrative spin.
.@ScottJenningsKY SHUTS DOWN insane CNN panel’s wild gaslighting about Tyler Robinson’s motive — including Montel Williams calling him a “love-torn child.”
JENNINGS: “Guys. GUYS. The evidence here is overwhelming.”
“He was motivated by HATE. He was motivated by left wing… pic.twitter.com/pqlkNGwC2w
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 17, 2025
The panel’s low point came courtesy of Montel Williams, who described suspected assassin Tyler Robinson as a “love-torn child,” as though the premeditated killing of a national conservative figure could be chalked up to adolescent heartbreak. That framing alone was surreal. Jennings, visibly exasperated, cut through the noise with the blunt clarity the moment demanded: “Guys. GUYS. The evidence here is overwhelming.”
He laid it out: Robinson’s radicalization wasn’t hidden. His texts, his rhetoric, his targeting of Kirk because of his beliefs — all point to an act rooted in left-wing hatred, not some Romeo-and-Juliet melodrama.
“He was motivated by HATE. He was motivated by left wing radicalism,” Jennings said. “We are looking around the edges of this for something other than what’s staring us in the FACE. Left wing radicalism got this kid. He went up to a roof and he murdered our friend.”
The left has reached out to Montell Williams to put a spin on this.
Amazing.— Scott Lame (@dimeday128) September 17, 2025
That is the story. That is the truth. Yet CNN’s panel strained to weave alternative narratives, dismissing Robinson’s ideology, minimizing his own words, and ignoring what prosecutors themselves have now said in court filings. Commenters watching from home recognized the pattern: legacy media, hand in hand with Democrats, has spent years branding conservatives as Nazis and fascists. That dehumanizing drumbeat, many argue, was the cultural oxygen that fed Robinson’s decision to pull the trigger.
The refusal to acknowledge motive is not journalistic restraint — it is denial. It is gaslighting. And if Jennings hadn’t been there to object, the narrative would have gone unchallenged, leaving casual viewers to believe Robinson was merely a confused youth rather than a radicalized killer.
And it’s THEIR FAULT.
They have misrepresented EVERY SINGLE THING Trump and his supporters have done for the last decade.
Robinson, in my opinion, is the direct result of being radically propagandized.
They knew their words mattered, and yet they STILL don’t give a fuck.
— Joshua Walker (@RedsRepair95) September 17, 2025
