Following a harsh warning from “The View” alumni Meghan McCain, the talk show’s current host had a gloomy discussion about Charlie Kirk’s shooting.
Whoopi Goldberg said filming was “above the devastating thing” on Thursday’s show. Shortly after McCain won the X, he said, “If my previous colleagues remain between all of them, they’ll try to do something gentle and decent this morning to the millions of grieving conservatives in this country.”
The ABC host didn’t deal with whether they saw the tweet or not, but Goldberg told the audience:
“Isn’t it a fundamental part of being Americans that we can express our opinions to each other without fear, without this kind of fear?
She continued, “It’s not the left or right. It’s just people being taken out because of their beliefs and ideas.”
Alyssa Farrr Griffin expressed sympathy for Kirk’s wife Erika and her two young children after the shooting.
“No matter your politics, we have to reach the place in this country, where we see it not as enemies, but as fellow Americans with different perspectives, as fellow Americans who are willing to be involved,” the talk show host said.
Sarah Haynes said, “It’s the irony of a man going across the nation to college campus, and his series was called “Proof Me Wrong.” He will speak openly with those who opposed him. ”
Haynes recalled Kirk’s own words. “When we stop talking, that’s when things get worse,” she said, “I know we all agree with that part. There’s never a place for political violence.”
Griffin wanted the murder to not have “whether you’re left or right” in your ability to speak your mind.
Goldberg agreed, saying he hopes that young Republicans will never forget that they have a voice. John Bear recalls “scary times” in the ’60s, including the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Robert F. Kennedy.
“We survived it and got better,” Behar said. “I think we’ll do that again. We’re going to be in a traumatic period right now.”
Kirk, 31, passed away Wednesday after a sniper rang at the first stop of a conservative activist on a “American Comeback Tour” on a college campus.
In the moment he was widely used via social media, he saw an influential commentator falling down before being taken to the local hospital where he died. The killer, who appears to have shot Kirk from the rooftop of a nearby campus before escaping the chaotic scene, is still massive.
Hours after Kirk’s death, celebrities expressed their anger and disappointment in the fatal attack.
“He was murdered for having a different opinion than someone else and having an ideology than someone else,” Charlie Sheen said during his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Wednesday. “rest in peace.”
“I sincerely hope that political violence only leads to more political violence and that this is the abominable behavior of a madman and not a sign of things to come,” Stephen Colbert said in an episode of Wednesday’s “Late Show.”
