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Events Daily Charlie Kirk Memorial Show
Washington DC
and when I look at the tributes coming
out by the way I I have to something I
haven't mentioned the sports tributes
Charlie was an incredible sports fan and
Yankee Stadium
put him up something completely outside
of politics but it didn't matter because
Charlie was bigger than politics.
He was an icon and
just visited Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs
recently,
dream of his since he was young. since
it was he he was young, but since he was
a little boy. And
you're starting to see even now
athletes, some people are sending me
tweets and messages that are coming in
where there were so many people in the
sports world, in the corporate world, in
the tech world who were great fans of
Charlie. And yet because of the
circumstances of the situation our
country is in,
they previously were not able to
publicly voice that support
because of what we've been living
through in this country. And that's the
saddest part of all
because
everything that Charlie Kirk did to get
us out of the situation we were in
is what led them to do this.
They couldn't debate him, so they shot
him.
I want to bring Libby Emmens on now,
editor-inchief of the Postmillennial
and a good friend of Charlie, as well as
the editor of
human events. Libby, how you holding up?
I I'm finding this to be a difficult
time. I'm sure that it's much more
difficult for the people who are close
to Charlie. Uh an unforgettable presence
and certainly this is a loss the world
will not soon forget. I think it's
really um interesting and telling what
you're talking about with the sports
figures who have come out and um given
their sadness and shared that grief with
the world now that Charlie has passed.
And you said something very interesting
which is that a lot of people did not
feel that they were able to do that
previously. And I think that that
attitude, that attitude that we can uh
that we are cowed, that we will not
speak out the truth, that we will hide
what we really feel and really think,
that we will let our, you know,
blue-haired cousins or our, you know, HR
departments or anybody else tell us what
we can and cannot say, what we can and
cannot think. That comes to an end. that
comes to an end now because there is
absolutely no good reason when you look
back on it, when you look back over the
past 10 years or so, there's absolutely
no good reason that we shouldn't all
have been speaking up and speaking the
truth and being honest and direct and
forthright this entire time. There's no
reason for it. There was no reason for
it then and there's no reason for it
now. And if there's anything that we
move forward with in terms of something
to to take from this, it is to speak
out. It is to be honest. It is to be
direct and forthright with a smile on
your face. It is to share the word of
God in your actions and in your deeds.
And to do that unflinchingly.
Just unflinchingly. No more bowing. No
more keeping silent because you're
afraid of your friends. Absolutely. that
comes to an end right now. If we all
just speak up together, if we all have
that courage, then they can't take us.
Then there's nothing that can be done to
silence us cuz we would be too loud. As
loud as a turning point event, frankly,
cuz those things get really loud.
Well, that's right. And
I I know that Charlie would tell us
exactly that
if he were here today. He would say,
"Keep going.
Be loud. Take up space. Get out there.
Show them what you're made of. And don't
back down. Cuz Charlie never backed
down.
Yeah. No. And this is something I was
talking to the human. He just never
stopped.
Yeah. I I was talking to the human
events columnist and we um yesterday had
basically started putting together a
tribute, something that we uh I think
collectively hoped would be a giant get
well card that we could send with a big
teddy bear and balloons. And that of
course changed as the as the day went
on. But everybody had something to say.
Everybody was touched by Charlie,
whether they had met him or not or just
been to an event or had seen his his
clips and seen what he was capable of
and seen what he had done. Everyone had
something to say. And there was uh when
I when I talked to our, you know,
columnist chat and I said, you know,
we're going to need um a a column on
Charlie and everyone wanted to write it.
literally everyone wanted to write it,
you know, and so we gathered Kenny Cody
and I, the opinion editor, we gathered
together everybody's thoughts and put
that together. And you can read that on
human events.com. Um, it's something
that I think is definitely
worth uh taking the time to look at. And
um, you know, I certainly hope that it's
something that that Charlie would would
like himself ideally. You know, that's
that's who it's for.
Well, and and Charlie's just always been
such a supporter of
the postmillennial millennial, of human
events. Uh really integral, a story that
we haven't really even told to, you
know, taking those platforms to the next
level. Just so much that he did behind
the scenes to encourage new media,
building institutions, taking things to
the next level. Even stuff that he
didn't need his name on, didn't want his
name on, didn't
he wasn't about that. He didn't need his
name on everything.
He just wanted people to be doing well.
And I think that that was sort of I mean
just one of his many many incredible
talents that he wanted he truly lived
for others and not himself.
Yeah, I think that's right. and that
story of of Charlie's hand in the
postmillennial and human events and
bringing those two uh properties
together and then boosting them and
boosting them. Uh I'm forever grateful
to Charlie for that and um you know for
uh making it so that we can have this
platform and that all of my staff who
are wonderful people are able to um
speak out and are able to write the
truth. I think that's so important. And
literally everyone on staff at
Postmillennial had something positive to
say. All of the editors and writers came
together and shared their thoughts. And
these were all these were all personal
memories, you know. I mean, this isn't
just like Charlie Kirk is a great figure
and I've seen him from afar. This was
Charlie Kirk is someone who touched my
life personally. And um I I was very
moved by what everyone had to say for
that. And thinking back on the times
that um I I was on Charlie's show a
couple of times. I shared the stage with
him once or twice and every single time
I was honored to be part of the thing
that he was doing quite frankly because
it always felt like something that was
urgent and integral and really important
for the future of this country that he
loved that I love that we all love so
much. And when I think back on, you
know, those times, he always was so
generous with himself, with his
intelligence. Uh he was always direct
and just so just so open and um you
know, willing to share what he had.
Always willing to share the spotlight,
too.
Always willing to share.
Yeah.
Libby Emmens, thank you so much for
being here today, for sharing your
voice. I know it's a tough day to do
this.
Thank you so much, Jack. I appreciate
it.
All right, folks. Uh, this is not the
end of the story. We're going to be
wrapping for now, but this isn't the way
the story ends. The story keeps going.
The fight keeps going.
We stay on mission. We lock in
for Charlie.
And
we will respond to the people who did
this.
There is a debt.
You robbed the world of Charlie.
You robbed his family. You robbed his
children. And the debt will be paid.
It's as simple as that.
Well,
I wanted to to end on this and to say,
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God bless you, Charlie.
I will tell your children who you were.
You fought the fight. You died with your
boots on. And I know now you are in the
presence of the king.
Until
we meet again, brother.
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