Episode 511 Promo - Kamala, Kimmel & Kirk (w/ Catherine Liu)

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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UC Irvine Professor and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class Catherline Liu returns to Bad Faith to talk about Kamala Harris's new, painfully out of touch book 107 Days, FCC Chair Brendan Carr's ouster of late night host Jimmy Kimmel over his banal commentary on Charlie Kirk, and Liu's own controversial tweets accusing those celebrating Kirk's death of having PMC sensibilities.

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0:00.0	I think if you hurt people, not directly hurt people and you are an evil motherfucker,
0:09.2	there are people who deserve to die.
0:12.2	Charlie Kirk knew how to push every button as a provocateur, said all these horrible things.
0:19.6	You could say that about me. Do I think I deserve to die?
0:23.0	There are certain people who would think that because of the things that I say, because of the things
0:27.5	that I think, I would deserve to die. I don't believe that. I deeply don't believe I deserve to
0:33.5	die. I think that people can have views and they don't deserve to die.
0:38.2	I don't know.
0:38.7	If we can put that to the side, because everyone agrees about that.
0:41.7	I want to be so clear that people are not objecting to Charlie Kirk, nor are your tweet
0:46.1	on the basis that they believe that you should want to agree with the idea that Charlie
0:50.2	Kurt deserves to die.
0:51.4	Many people have said that, of of course Charlie Kirk doesn't deserve to
0:55.0	die, but I am also not going to laud him or celebrate his life simply because I am not also
1:04.5	celebrating his death. And to this point, I don't know if you saw AOC. Did I celebrate his life? No,
1:08.9	but Ezra Klein did. And that's the source of the criticism.
1:12.1	That Ezra Klein said, I'm not just saying it's bad to kill your political enemies, obviously. What he's saying is, and he did politics exactly the right way and let me use us as an opportunity to law and how he practiced his life. Yeah. No, that was awful. similarly, there was this vote today in the House,
1:29.6	this resolution to honor Kirk's quote, life and legacy that 95 Democrats voted in favor of,
1:36.4	58 against 38 voted president. This is disgusting. This is horrific. This is an abomination. I'm going to say that. Then I'm going to say,
1:47.4	there's no academic freedom on campus right now. Things are going to get worse. There's no freedom.
1:53.3	People can't say half the things they need to say about we repressed any criticism of Israel on campus. We've criminalized that. And, you know,
2:02.4	we've criminalized this. We've repressed all this speech about third real issues. I'm not even
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