The Knee-Jerk Smearing of Charlie KirkYou can get annoyed at how the flagship ABCTV 7pm News frames events to suit its leftist narratives. But its coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination plumbs such depths of bias and institutional malice that the only civilised response is disgust. Now the American right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk has been shot and killed in what’s been described as a political assassination. Knight: Charlie Kirk was a provocateur for the Christian right. Two days earlier, ABC Radio National did another of its hit jobs on Charlie Kirk with the assistance of a Texas University academic.