ABC News Reporter Romanticizes Charlie Kirk's Accused Murderer

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they rip into ABC News over its repulsive coverage of Charlie Kirk’s accused killer and slam Democrats for overwhelmingly embracing socialism. They also applaud former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for slamming his former Democrat colleagues who attacked our system of government in the pursuit of power.

First, they welcome Sen. Manchin blasting President Obama, President Biden, and Senate Democratic leaders like Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer for systematically trying to "weaken the very guardrails that have protected our democracy for generations—all in the name of advancing their agenda." This includes tactics like killing the filibuster on nominations and trying to kill the legislative filibuster. Jim says Manchin is right to point it out. But are any Democrats listening?

Next, they dig into the charges filed against the alleged murderer of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and torch ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for gushing about the “touching” text exchanges between the accused killer and his partner as the shooter seemed to confess. Jim unloads on Gutman and the entire mainstream media, which seem to have perfect clarity on right and wrong when someone on the right is accused. But when a lefty is charged, all of a sudden the media lose the plot and just find everything so confusing.

Finally, they're disgusted but not surprised to find that Democrats are overwhelmingly supportive of socialism. CNN is reporting that Democrats are now a net +36 on socialism and a net -13 on capitalism. This is now the mainstream position of the Democratic Party.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:04.8	Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.5	Three martini's coming up.
0:12.9	Very glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:17.2	Man, we're already to the middle of the week, but there's still no shortage of news.
0:21.5	We're going to be taking a close look at how the Democrats are quickly embracing socialism.
0:27.3	So tossing that out there for Bernie Sanders or Zerunamam Dani, not doing the damage you think it does,
0:32.7	at least in the Democratic primary, as we already learned this year.
0:36.2	We'll also take a look at a very bad
0:38.9	moment for the fourth estate, ABC News reporter Matt Gutman yesterday, as he reported on the formal
0:44.8	charges against the murderer, alleged murder of Charlie Kirk. And we're also going to talk here in
0:49.8	just a moment about Joe Manchin's new book, the former West Virginia senator, long-time Democrat,
0:54.9	officially now an independent, taking some pretty intense shots at his former party and his former
1:00.3	party's leaders. So, Jim, more popcorn. That's always fun. But today is September 17th, which means
1:05.9	it's Constitution Day. Yeah, 1787. This was the day it was voted out of the Constitutional Convention.
1:12.6	Of course, you know, the states needed to ratify it after that.
1:15.5	And, you know, by April of 1789, we had George Washington sworn in as our first president.
1:21.7	Jim, after yesterday's dust up about Pam Bondi and her not quite understanding freedom of speech.
1:29.3	And you got the left, of course, wishing away the Second Amendment.
1:33.3	And you've even got the New York Times and others saying, you know, the Constitution is really impediment to democracy.
1:39.3	I think the whole thing's got to go.
1:41.3	Everybody who has sworn an oath needs to read this thing and read it now.
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