5 lies that the Media spreads about Charlie Kirk and how to debunk them.

 I am working a lot of Overtime so it is difficult to post, I saw this on "The Federalist" so all credit is to them.  

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the left and their media allies have taken to assassinating his character, twisting his words, distorting his record, and in many cases, just making things up out of thin air.

Here are some of the most egregious lies about Kirk.

Claim: Charlie Kirk Said Black People Were Better Off In Slavery

This claim has been circulated amongst several social media users and even outlets like BET, where writer T. Ballard alleged Kirk “suggested Black Americans were ‘better off during slavery.'”

No search produces any verifiable proof that Kirk said such a thing — and Ballard of course doesn’t link to a single source. The closest clip anyone has pointed to comes from a roundtable debate (1:26:00) about the constitutionality of affirmative action in which Kirk condemned Jim Crow as “evil” before pointing out data that shows black Americans are poorer today than they were in the 1950’s prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act (which effectively ended the Jim Crow laws).

The woman he was debating asked whether Kirk was trying to suggest that blacks “thrived under subjugation.” (At this point, Kirk had pointed out that since the 1965 Civil Rights Act, blacks became poorer, black fathers left the homes in mass droves, and crime rates amongst blacks shot up whereas during the 1940’s and 1950’s those things were opposite).

“The data shows [blacks] were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad, it was evil, but what happened? Something changed?” Kirk asked, seemingly referencing Jim Crow subjugation — not slavery.

Claim: Kirk Said Black Women Have Inferior Intelligence

According to social media users, Kirk said black women did not have “the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.”

It’s a claim Snopes rated “True” even though Snopes admitted in the fine print that Kirk was referring to four specific women, not “black women” as a whole.

During a July 13, 2023 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Kirk was talking about Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“If we would have said three weeks ago […] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us! They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action,'” Kirk said. “Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

Kirk was criticizing four women he believed to be unqualified. But the left took a targeted criticism and inflated it into a blanket statement against an entire demographic.

Claim: Kirk Said Gun Deaths Are ‘Worth It’ For The Second Amendment

Another claim widely circulated is that, as put by X user Mayra, “Charlie Kirk said that gun deaths ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment.'”

But that’s a gross distortion of Kirk’s comments, which are in full below:

“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry, and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

Kirk wasn’t celebrating or encouraging tragedy. He was recognizing the reality: the Second Amendment safeguards liberty, even though misuse of firearms will tragically occur. His point was clear: banning guns because some people abuse them is like banning cars because some people drink and drive.

Claim: Kirk Called For Killing Gays

Author Stephen King was one of many on social media who spread the false claim that Kirk “advocated for stoning gays to death.” King later deleted his comment and apologized after realizing that was a made up statement attributed to Kirk. NPR’s Brittany Luse deceptively framed Kirk’s comments, writing that Kirk “made many people angry by saying…the Bible passage that calls for stoning gay people is, quote, ‘God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.'”

But Kirk didn’t say anything close to either claims.

During a June 8, 2024, episode of his podcast ( 1:00:00), Kirk reacted to YouTube personality Ms. Rachel, who posted a video in which she cited the Bible to explain why she wished a “Happy Pride” to the LGBTQ+ community.

“My faith is really important to me, and it’s also one reason why I love every neighbor,” Ms. Rachel said. “In Matthew 22, a religious teacher asked Jesus, what’s the most important commandment? And Jesus says, to love God and to ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

“It doesn’t say love every neighbor except,” she continued.

Kirk responded that Ms. Rachel left out the full context.

“She’s not totally wrong,” Kirk said. “The first part is Deuteronomy 6:3–5. The second part is Leviticus 19. So you love God, so you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin.”

“And it says, by the way, Ms. Rachel, might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

Kirk was clearly making the point that some — like Ms. Rachel — cherrypick the Bible to fit their preferred narrative.

Claim: Charlie Used Asian Slur

This is perhaps the easiest claim to debunk. According to X user Elizabeth, “Kirk called an Asian woman in the audience ‘chink’ multiple times.” Her post racked up 16 million views, 107,000 likes and 43,000 saves.

But Kirk was not yelling “chink” at an Asian person — he was yelling “Cenk,” as in Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, during a heated debate about capitalism. The incident was reported on in 2018 by The Washington Examiner.

Monday Music "We Didn't Start This Fire" By Billy Joel

 

I decided to roll with this song by Billy Joel for my Monday Music because of the events of last week, "we didn't start the fire" but people are getting burned, from the crass posting celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they are in disarray, they are soo used to being the ones cancelling, they thought themselves invincible and now having their own weapons turned on them, is curiously very satisfying.  I will discuss more tomorrow.  

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States.

Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a friend of Sean Lennon who had just turned 21 who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!" Joel replied to him, "Yeah, I remember when I was 21 – I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful." The friend replied, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted, "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?" Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.
Joel has said, "I'm a history nut. I devour books. At one time I wanted to be a history teacher". According to his mother, he was a bookworm by the age of seven. Unlike most of Joel's songs, the lyrics were written before the melody, owing to the somewhat unusual style of the song. The song was a huge commercial success and was Joel's third Billboard No. 1 hit. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

I had turned forty. It was 1989 and I said "Okay, what's happened in my life?" I wrote down the year 1949. Okay, Harry Truman was president. Popular singer of the day, Doris Day. China went Communist. Another popular singer, Johnnie Ray. Big Broadway show, South Pacific. Journalist, Walter Winchell. Athlete, Joe DiMaggio. Then I went on to 1950 [...]. It's one of the worst melodies I've ever written. I kind of like the lyric though.

Joel has said, "There's an element of malevolence in the song; it's like waiting for the other shoe to drop." He has mentioned having mixed feelings about the song. "It's a nightmare to perform live, because if I miss one word, it's a train wreck." He has called it a "novelty song" that does not "really define me as well as album songs that probably don't get played", and has also criticized the song on strictly musical grounds. In 1993, when discussing it with documentary filmmaker David Horn, Joel compared its melodic content unfavorably to his song "The Longest Time": "Take a song like 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' It's really not much of a song....If you take the melody by itself, terrible. Like a dentist drill."
When asked if he could do a follow-up about the next couple of years after the events that transpired in the original song, he commented "No, I wrote one song already and I don't think it was really that good to begin with, melodically."

A music video for the single was directed by Chris Blum, which chronicles a white middle-class married couple and their goal of the American Dream: a home, careers, and children. This is symbolised by the constant revamping of a domestic kitchen – 1940s utilitarian turning into 1950s Populuxe, 1960s op art, 1970s earth-colored tiles and macramé, and finally 1980s black lacquer & granite bench tops. This is juxtaposed with symbols of the tumultuous social times of the second half of the 20th century (e.g., bra burning, lynching, and draft-card burning). The singer acts as an unseen but omnipresent observer. During each chorus, Joel wearing sunglasses (similar to Roy Orbison's) rhythmically beats on a black table; in the background, famous photographs (of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination and Nguyễn Văn Lém's execution, among others) are consumed by fire, a metaphor of the song's theme and title.  He later commented that it was ironic that the Soviet union basically collapsed right after the release of this song.  Years later Billy panned the entire song, I disagreed with it.  Critics commented that most people had no idea of the events referenced.  I guess me and my friends are outliers because we do.
The music video on YouTube has over 60 million views as of August 2017

Sept 11, 2025 what a day.

Still out of town, using my phone to do this post.

I already had a post set for Sept 11, it is my traditional post to honor those that died on 9-11 due to radical Islam, a couple of events the past 2 days have me both sad and angry. First was the Ukrainian girl that was killed by the 14 time released criminal by a judicial system that believed in progressive justice and she was killed for the sole crime of being a white girl on the train, and all of the others were the same race as the attacker.  After she was stabbed, no one did anything. I recall a post I did years ago when "KittyGuinevere" was killed and a bunch of people heard the screams and did nothing. 

I want to believe that the others didn't get involved due to the kitty affect instead of hate, although I did see one person recording while 2 others looked in on her after she bled out. I saw the full recording,  and if the situation was reversed Charlotte would be burning. 

       Then today(Sept 10) I hear about Charlie Kirk and I get even sadder and madder. And the joy and vitriol from the left is rapidly eating up what grace I have.

And what I am feeling is this...

I am abiding by the 72 hours as much as I can.

I set to post this on the scheduler thingie to drop on Sept 11, 2025  I wrote this post back in November of 2018,  I have blogged before about Rick Rescorla, to me he went to Valhalla on the wings of Valkyries.  To use a phrase that isn't used much anymore, "He died Well".  Everyone dies, that is the truth of our existence, but some choose to run forward despite the almost certainty of death to make a difference.

 

 

 

The Battle of la Drang Valley was the first major battle in the Vietnam War. 36 years later, the first major battle of the War on Terror was the bombing of the Twin Towers.

There are many people who remember both events, but Rick Rescorla is the only person who was at the heart of both.
Rick Rescorla was born in Cornwall, United Kingdom, but was one of the most distinguished heroes in the initial battle of Vietnam. He gave his life on September 11, 2001.
 

 

Just before the collapse of WTC 2. You can see all floors fully involved with fire and         structural failure is imminent

Rescorla’s career in the military started at the age of 17 when he joined the British military. There he trained as a paratrooper and would later serve in Cyprus. At the end of his Short-Service Commission, he joined the Northern Rhodesia police before returning to London to join the Metropolitan Police Service.
Rescorla’s tenure with the Met police was short-lived and he soon emigrated to the United States where he lived in a hostel in Brooklyn. He stayed there until he was able to enlist in the United States Army. He completed basic training at Fort Dix.

After basic training, he completed Officer Candidate School and airborne training, graduating with the assignment of platoon leader.
He became infantry leader of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Rescorla and his men were one of the first combat units on the ground in Vietnam.
In November 1965, he and his unit were involved in the battles in the la Drang Valley. One of the moments from these battles was captured by a war correspondent and appears on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once And Young. This iconic image is of Rick Rescorla holding his rifle with bayonet attached and marching forward into battle.

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Rick Rescorla during the war, 1965

Rescorla and his unit fought at Landing Zone X-Ray before being extracted and provided with a brief rest. They were then instructed to return to the valley and reinforce another unit. The battles lasted three days, during which time the companies faced superior numbers but were able to hold off and drive the enemy forces back.
For his part in the war, Rescorla was honored with the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, a Purple Heart, a Silver Star, and the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster.

Some U.S. Army soldiers air-lifted into LZ X-Ray.

After leaving active duty, Rescorla remained a reserve, retiring with the rank of colonel. He used his military benefits to study creative writing and eventually earned a law degree from the Oklahoma City University School of Law.
He would go on to teach criminal justice for three years and publish a textbook on the subject.
His teaching career was short-lived and he moved on to the world of corporate security, joining Dean Witter Reynolds at their office in the World Trade Center.
It was during his time there that Rescorla became concerned with the security of the towers. This was prompted by the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland.

The remains of the forward section from Clipper Maid of the Seas (Pan Am Flight 103) on Tundergarth Hill, Lockerbie Scotland, 21 December 1988

The bombing pushed Rescorla to invite his old friend, Daniel Hill, to assess the security of the World Trade Center. Hill was trained in counterterrorism and determined that the basement would be the easiest target for a terror attack.
The two of them used the findings to write a report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey insisting that more security be added to the parking garage. Their recommendations were ignored due to the costs, leaving the building open to the 1993 terrorist attack.
During the 1993 attack, Rescorla was upset by the poor evacuation of the building and vowed that it would never happen again. In 1997, he became the director of security for Dean Witter/Morgan Stanley and was able to make some of the changes he wanted.

Procession of emergency vehicles at the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993. The Tower is on the far right of the frame. Photo taken by Eric Ascalon from an adjacent pedestrian walkway. 

Rescorla did recommend that the company find different office space due to the vulnerability of the building, but lease obligations made this impossible. This left Rescorla to create an emergency evacuation plan that all employees had to practice again and again.
The emergency plan ensured that Morgan Stanley employees were ready for any attacks. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rescorla heard the explosion from the North Tower and saw it burning from his office window on the 44th floor of the South Tower.
An announcement from Port Authority came over the PA system telling people to remain at their desks. Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn and ordered Morgan Stanley employees to start evacuating.

The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175

He directed the employees down the staircase and continued to encourage them when the building lurched as the second plane hit. To keep everyone calm, Rescorla started to sing as he had done for his platoon in Vietnam.

 Rick pushing people out of the building in Sept 11, 2001 saving their lives, this was the last pic that was taken of that man.

2,687 employees of Morgan Stanley owe their lives to Rick Rescorla as they were successfully evacuated. After seeing to this, Rescorla returned to the South Tower to ensure that everyone was out.
He was last seen on the 10th floor heading up shortly before the tower collapsed. His remains were never found and he was declared dead three weeks later.

The exterior support columns from the lower level of the South Tower remain standing after the collapse of the building.

Rick Rescorla was a man who saw battle with two armies and the start of the War on Terror. All but 13 employees of Morgan Stanley were able to exit the South Tower safely because of his leadership and foresight.

 Rescorla's name is located on Panel S-46 of the National September 11 Memorial’s South Pool

One of my favorite pics, it shows the indomitable spirit of the American People.

9-11-2002

Where im at today...

 We are going on a cruise and we landed here yesterday 

And Im using my kinda smart phone to post. Well anyway  we landed in Newark NJ (EWR) and we got in a day early in case there were "issues" . We will be sailing the northeast corridor.  New York,  Boston,  Rhode Island,  Maine and a couple stops in Canada eh.

   Well as I was walking to get the shot yall see above a mid 30's guy was walking and he was holding a cellphone watching it intently and stepped through some "suitcase carriers " from the baggage claim area and he stumbled but kept on going still glued to the phone, and the line from the terminator came to me

Well we went to our hotel and chilled out until returning back to the airport to catch our transfer point to Manhattan cruise point.

    Back at the hotel, I did my usual hotel thing

And of course we are on the 2nd floor farthest away from the elevator. And yes, I did use the deadbolt.

"How To Drive a Tank"

 

Yeah I shamelessly clipped this from "Art of Manliness", I thought it was pretty good, and those of us that were in the "Big Green Weenie" would appreciate the trapsie down memory lane, LOL.  I never drove a Patton, but I drove tracks, trucks, jeeps, hummvees, deuce and a half's, 5 tons, 548, 1008, 1009, 1028's and I am grateful I never learned to drive a gamma goat.

     

There you are, captured behind enemy lines, locked in a makeshift POW camp. Your only chance of escape? The M60 Patton tank sitting unguarded just beyond the fence. If you’re able to get inside it, would you be able to start it up and pilot the tank for a getaway?

While you might never find yourself needing to commandeer a tank for a daring escape, there’s something undeniably appealing about knowing how to operate one of these steel monsters. Tony Borglum, owner of Drive a Tank in Minnesota, has taught thousands of people the basics of tank operation, and in this illustrated guide, we’ll share his instructions for piloting an M60 Patton.

Why the M60 Patton?

Because it was so dang ubiquitous in the second half of the 20th century.

Most of us grew up playing with little green army men. That tank in your collection was almost certainly modeled after the M60 Patton. Named after one of America’s greatest tank strategists, General George Patton, the M60 was the backbone of American armored forces for decades after WWII. This 52-ton beast saw action from the Cold War through Desert Storm, earning its reputation as one of the most reliable tanks ever built.

Because we’re showing you how to drive an M60 Patton, we thought it only fitting to have Old Blood and Guts himself show you the ropes.