We’ve seen a lot of reactions from people on the left in response to the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.
Many Democratic politicians condemned the killing in very similar terms. It was good they condemned it, although some of them, at least to me, felt like they were saying it because they thought they had to–after all the ginning up of anger that many of them have done against the right.
One who broke that mold a bit and delivered a very emotional reaction was “The Young Turks” host, Cenk Uygur.
Here’s some of what he said:
F***!!! Charlie died. God d**n it, this is not the way!! I didn’t just know him from our interviews and debates, but I met his wonderful wife. This is beyond heartbreaking!! Violence is so stupid! He was a real person, a human being, who just died in front of our eyes. Tragic!!
But, as our sister site Townhall reported, Uygur had a different reaction on Piers Morgan’s show when they discussed the killing, and Uygur was confronted about his own words by Dave Rubin. Rubin thought maybe Uygur, in the spirit of reconciliation, might want to delete references to “Nazis” in video titles from his channel referencing Trump, since everyone agrees that Trump is not Hitler and his supporters are not Nazis.
Rubin said he only blames the actual people behind the violence for their actions. But pretending this isn’t “wildly asymmetrical” [more on one side] was “dangerous,” he declared. He called for a recognition of a “mea culpa.” Instead, Uygur had a furious reaction.
Warning for graphic language in the following videos:
I’ve been trying to be as reconciliatory as possible, but it’s hard when the people who call us all Nazi’s pretend they had nothing to do with any of this.
So I just read Cenk’s video titles about Charlie and Trump back to him.
It went as well as you would expect. pic.twitter.com/x3F1eqIvh3
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 12, 2025
He was concerned about how Rubin reading back his own titles to him on air might somehow endanger him, and he called Rubin a “monster,” claiming Rubin was trying to get people to do violence against him. That was an amazing and revelatory response. Rubin was trying to get him to take down the language or admit it was wrong. Uygur thinks reading the titles is dangerous to him. Then what does he think they could be to Trump or his supporters?
Rubin also read other titles that were ugly, referencing Charlie Kirk, saying Kirk was one of the “best people [he] ever met” and “didn’t have a bone of racism, misogyny, or anything else in his body.” Rubin also asked Uygur if he thought Kirk wanted to be martyred, which Uygur said was an asinine thought. Rubin then argued that Uygur had used the term “easy martyrdom,” and said Kirk was playing the “victim.” Cenk replied that Rubin was taking them “totally out of context.”
Here I read his garbage titles about Charlie specifically right back to him. pic.twitter.com/KVIMEuyp2h
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 12, 2025
Uygur said that there was never a call for violence in any of the titles regarding Kirk.
But that’s a wild reaction Uygur has to Rubin; so much for reconciliation.
