Aaron Sibarium on Charlie Kirk, Retribution, and the Cycle of Violence
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reflects on his recent full-hour interview with Charlie Kirk, which aired just a week before Kirk’s assassination. He recalls Kirk’s reach across conservative factions and his surprising focus on debate and voter mobilization rather than pure outrage. The conversation widens to the risks of political violence, misperceptions between parties, and how quickly rhetoric escalates online. Plus, a Spiel on what might finally break the cycle of fear hatred and likely recrimination.
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| 0:58.7 | It's Thursday, September 11th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions. |
| 1:03.1 | It's the gist, I'm Mike Peska. |
| 1:05.2 | The horrible assassination of Charlie Kirk with a killer still on the loose |
| 1:09.0 | dominates the news in this show today. |
| 1:11.1 | Yesterday, I thought it was pretty crucial |
| 1:13.0 | and still do that Donald Trump properly addressed the drones |
| 1:16.8 | launched into Poland. |
| 1:18.3 | Today he said nothing. |
| 1:19.5 | Gee God. |
| 1:20.6 | But I also understand this is an attention getting matter |
| 1:24.5 | and his politics align with focusing on Charlie Kirk. And Charlie Kirk |
| 1:29.4 | could get attention, could, let's say, earn attention. He had the number one or two conservative |
| 1:35.3 | podcast and radio show out there and he registered thousands of people, mostly young men, to vote. |
| 1:41.7 | Democrats didn't admire Kirk's views, but they would have loved to have copied |
| 1:45.6 | his methods. I'm not one who says we don't speak ill of the dead, but I don't want to rush to |
| 1:51.6 | criticize all that Kirk ever said. I thought that was pretty distasteful as the blood was still |
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