Fox News host Greg Gutfeld lit up “The Five” this week, delivering a fiery takedown of liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov after she attempted to downplay the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and Trump ally Charlie Kirk by hiding behind the tired “both sides” excuse.
Kirk, a nationally recognized conservative voice who dedicated his career to defending free speech and exposing left-wing indoctrination, was gunned down in cold blood on the campus of Utah Valley University. The alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, reportedly had ties to radical leftist groups—a fact the mainstream media is desperate to sweep under the rug.
The tragedy has sparked a fierce debate online and on cable news: conservatives argue, correctly, that political violence overwhelmingly comes from the left, while progressives scramble to claim that “both sides” are guilty, muddying the waters instead of facing the truth.
On Fox’s *The Five*, Gutfeld refused to let that narrative slide.
“Why is only this happening on the left and not the right? That’s all we need to know,” Gutfeld said, cutting through the media smokescreen.
Tarlov immediately attempted to equate Kirk’s murder with the unrelated killing of Minnesota Democrat Melissa Hortman, who was murdered alongside her husband in June. Gutfeld wasn’t having it.
“Did you know her name before it happened? None of us did. None of us were spending every single day talking about Melissa Hortman. I never heard of her until after she died,” Gutfeld shot back, pointing out that Kirk had been the target of relentless left-wing demonization for years.
Clearly rattled, Tarlov snapped, “So you’re saying her death doesn’t matter?”
That’s when Gutfeld dropped the hammer.
“Don’t play that bullsh\*t with me!” he thundered. “What I’m saying is there was no demonization amplification about that woman before she died. It was a specific crime against her by somebody that knew her.”
The point was unmistakable: Kirk was assassinated after years of being vilified by the corporate press and left-wing activists. That is not the same as a personal crime of passion.
And Gutfeld wasn’t done.
“The both sides argument not only doesn’t fly, we don’t care. We don’t care about your both sides argument. That sh\*t is dead,” he declared, sending the panel into stunned silence.
He then laid blame where it belongs—on the modern American left and their media allies who fueled the hatred that made Kirk a target.
“On your side, your beliefs do not match reality so you’re coming up with these rationalizations. ‘What about this, what about that?’ We are not doing that because we saw it happen. We saw a young bright man assassinated and we know who did it,” Gutfeld said.
Wrapping up his blistering monologue, Gutfeld torched the media’s culpability in stoking the environment that led to Kirk’s death.
“The media is dead to us on this story. They built this thing up. We are dealing with it, we are going to act. We don’t care what the what about is anymore, that sh\*t is dead!” he concluded.
For once, a mainstream network didn’t let the left’s deflections go unchecked. Gutfeld said what millions of Americans are thinking: the left’s obsession with silencing conservatives has deadly consequences, and no amount of spin can change that.
