Fringe on right twists Charlie Kirk's memory

IS IT REALLY too much to ask that a murdered young man be given the dignity of a proper burial before bad-faith opportunists attempt to posthumously rewrite his legacy to better serve their own nefarious ends? Is it really too much to ask that a murdered young man’s family and friends — to say nothing of the countless individuals whose lives the young man touched and inspired — be allowed to mourn in peace, without having to fend off charlatans seeking to hijack his memory to advance their pet crusades?

- JOSH HAMMER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

PODCASTER Candace Owens suggested that Jewish people or Israel were somehow involved in Charlie Kirk’s death.

Apparently, the answer is: Yes, it is.

The body of my friend Charlie Kirk, who was tragically assassinated last week during a campus event in Utah by an alleged leftist transgender-adjacent “furry” fetishist, had barely returned home to Arizona before some grifters ostensibly on the right started trying to capitalize on his memory. Instead of focusing on the metastasizing evil of a distinctly leftist political violence or the fact that transgenderism had yet again found itself implicated in a horrific shooting, as any sane conservative would have done, these agents of chaos decided it would be most appropriate to “just ask questions” about — you guessed it — the Jews.