In a column posted late Friday afternoon over at Fox News Opinion, Media Research Center President David Bozell blasted the flimsy arguments that cancel culture is on the march for those who’ve expressed odious and stomach-churning responses to the September 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“Cancel culture has always been about silencing dissent and enforcing conformity to the liberal agenda. Christians who refused to march in lockstep with new orthodoxies were stripped of jobs, deplatformed, denied banking services and hounded from public life,” he noted while the last week has been “different.”
Bozell explained: “Businesses don’t exist to serve radical ideology. They ex ist to serve customers. When an employee brings shame on the company by cheering violence, a corporation has every right to say: not on our watch.”
On Kimmel specifically, Bozell focused on the complete lack of contrition from Kimmel and his refusal to, as of now, offer an apology: “He could have walked into the studio, looked into the camera and said plainly that he was wrong. He didn’t. He could have honored the grieving family by admitting he maligned their husband and father. Again, he didn’t.”
Directly addressing those claiming this has been “cancel culture,” Bozell said “Charlie Kirk built his life on truth, faith and courage” and so “[c]onservatives honor his legacy not by canceling opponents but by demanding integrity from those who presume to inform the public.”
To read the rest of Bozell’s column, click here.
