The Charlie Kirk shooting changes political media forever
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Brian discusses why the Charlie Kirk shooting hits so close to home. Brian interviews Jon Favreau to discuss Fox’s response to the shooting and climate activist and former British government official Johan Eliasch about how he’s buying up portions of the rainforest to protect them from deforestation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about why the Charlie Kirk shooting hits so close to home, |
| 0:04.5 | and I've got two interviews. I'm joined by POTSave America's John Fabro to discuss Fox's |
| 0:08.3 | response to the shooting, and climate activist and former British government official |
| 0:12.1 | Johann El-Eyash about how he's buying up portions of the rainforest to protect them from |
| 0:16.4 | deforestation. I'm Brian Taylor Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:22.4 | So you know by now that a political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed this past week. |
| 0:27.1 | I've seen all the hot takes. I'm not here to give mine. I also don't think that all of my |
| 0:32.3 | opinions fit neatly into one category. I believe that his political views were utterly reprehensible. I believe that he spent |
| 0:39.9 | years dehumanizing people of color, LGBT people, and any other marginalized community. I agree that he |
| 0:46.2 | used the same violent rhetoric that his critics are now using to justify the violence against him. |
| 0:50.7 | I agree that it's stunning to watch the right shrug off the senseless school shootings that |
| 0:54.9 | happened all the time, including on the literal same day as the Kirk shooting, but suddenly |
| 1:00.0 | recognize the tragedy of gun violence when a Republican operative is the victim of it. I agree that |
| 1:05.3 | no one deserves to be killed for their political beliefs. I agree that it is heartbreaking for his |
| 1:09.9 | children. I agree that the shooting makes everyone left, right and center, less safe. I agree that it is heartbreaking for his children. I agree that the |
| 1:11.3 | shooting makes everyone left, right and center, less safe. I'm sure there's something in there to piss |
| 1:16.7 | everybody off. And that's kind of what I want to talk about here. I want to discuss a little bit |
| 1:21.2 | of my experience in all of this since I'm a political commentator in a world where another |
| 1:26.7 | political commentator just got shot and killed. |
| 1:29.4 | I am terminally online. My daily screen time on my phone is about 10 hours a day. That's not |
| 1:34.8 | including my laptop, which I'm also on all day. I've experienced firsthand the degrading effects |
| 1:40.7 | of staring at and consuming political content every day, seven days a week, |
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