On Thursday, radio host Derek Hunter of Washington, D.C.'s powerhouse news/talk station WMAL broadcasted live from the Media Research Center studios and welcomed MRC President David Bozell to drop an exclusive bombshell poll that should terrify every conservative in America.
The question was simple: What was the political ideology of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of gunning down Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk?
According to a November 25 McLaughlin & Associates national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted for the Media Research Center, less than a quarter of respondents correctly described Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, as left-wing.
- Just 24% of likely voters correctly identified the suspect as left-wing.
- A staggering 22% of likely voters wrongly believed Robinson was right-wing.
- But the real gut-punch came from college-aged respondents – the very demographic Charlie Kirk spent his career trying to reach:
- 33% thought the shooter was a right-winger.
- A pathetic 4% got it right and pegged him as left-wing.
Bozell didn’t mince words, pointing the finger squarely at late-night propagandists and Big Tech gatekeepers.
“I’d still put this largely at the feet of folks like Jimmy Kimmel,” Bozell told Hunter. He also called out the “big-time aggregators that enjoy relative anonymity” – Google, Apple News, and Yahoo – for funneling hundreds of millions of eyeballs to far-left outlets disguised as neutral.
Case in point: Newsweek, which famously sold for one dollar, now ranks as America’s 16th-most-trafficked news site with 68 million monthly visitors – almost entirely because it’s algorithmically embedded in Google News, Apple News, and Yahoo.
And what did those outlets do in the critical hours and days after the assassination? They played dumb.
As Bozell put it, CNN, The New York Times, and their ilk spent the aftermath shrugging: “We just don’t know enough about Tyler Robinson yet… let’s wait for the courts.”
The result? A plurality of young Americans now believe a left-wing extremist who targeted Charlie Kirk was actually a “right-wing” killer – the exact opposite of reality.
Listen to full interview here.
