MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler has announced an apology for analyst Matthew Dowd’s comments during the report of the shootings of conservative activists and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.
“During coverage of the Charlie Kirk shooting, Matthew Dowd made inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable comments,” Kulter said in a statement shared to his MSNBC Public Relations X account. “I apologize for his statement, like he does. There is no place for political or other violence in America.”
During the coverage of Kirk’s shooting, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur asked Dowd about “an environment in which such shootings occur.” Dowd responded to Kirk: “He was one of the most divisive, particularly divisive young people who are constantly pushing this kind of hate speech or something like this kind of hate speech directed at a particular group. That’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
Tur also faced an online backlash as he suggested Donald Trump would use Kirk’s shooting as “legality of something.”
In a post to his personal description of Bluesky, Dowd issued his own apology for his commentary, saying, “I apologize for my tone and words. Let’s be clear. I have never intended my comment to blame Kirk for this horrifying attack.
Kirk passed away Wednesday after being shot at a college event in Utah. He was 31 years old.
Trump wrote about the true society in response to Kirk’s death. “Even great and legendary, Charlie Kirk is dead. The youth center of the United States was not better understood or had better than Charlie.
