When it comes to Charlie Kirk, the left just can’t help themselves. They smear, they distort, and when caught, they double down rather than admit the obvious: their talking points don’t survive contact with the truth. That reality was on full display during a heated exchange on NewsNation, where Chris Cuomo — yes, that Cuomo, the former CNN anchor — refused to let liberal commentator Adam Mockler get away with fabricating claims about Kirk.
Mockler came in swinging with a tired line: “This is a dude who repeatedly said the Civil Rights Act shouldn’t have been passed.” It’s a favorite smear, repeated often in progressive echo chambers where fact-checking takes a backseat to outrage.
Chris Cuomo unexpectedly SHUTS DOWN young liberal pushing false claims about Charlie Kirk.
“You’re about to make the AOC mistake.”
Adam Mockler claimed Kirk believed the Civil Rights Act NEVER should have been passed.
But to his dismay, Cuomo immediately pushed back and set… pic.twitter.com/UMVAbgysNE
— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) September 30, 2025
But Cuomo wasn’t having it. “No, not at the same time,” he corrected immediately. “Charlie Kirk never said the Civil Rights Act [shouldn’t have been passed]. What he said was, Civil Rights Act: good. Needed it. Great.”
Mockler tried again: “No.”
Cuomo pressed on. He explained Kirk’s actual argument — that while the Civil Rights Act was necessary and important, its subsequent manipulation into justifying race-based quotas, DEI bureaucracies, and permanent grievance politics was never the intent of the law. That distinction matters.
Still, Mockler insisted, “He said they never should have passed it. He said that, right?”
“No,” Cuomo fired back. “I don’t think he did say that. I think what he said was what they did with it made it a mistake.” And then came the dagger: “It’s pretty simple. It’ll take you five minutes.”
Brutal. Mockler wasn’t just wrong — he was out of his depth, much like the infamous CNN appearance where Scott Jennings shredded him and then welcomed him to the “NFL” of political debate.
Welcome to the NFL, kid.
Rule #1: Come prepared 👇 pic.twitter.com/qkML7rkTwg
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 21, 2025
But here’s the darker undertone that lingers beneath these exchanges. Time and again, you hear liberals wrap their attacks on Kirk with a casual disclaimer: “Well, I don’t think he should have been assassinated, but he said terrible things.” That “but” speaks volumes. It’s a rhetorical tell — an admission that deep down, they think his murder was either justified or at least karmically deserved.
And that’s the danger. Smears like Mockler’s aren’t just sloppy debating tactics. They create the caricature of a man so vile, so hateful, that when violence befalls him, it feels earned. It’s the kind of logic that corrodes civil society and transforms political disagreement into a justification for bloodshed.
