It’s not an overgeneralization to say that most people on the right are understandably struggling with the death of Charlie Kirk. I say understandably not because I thought Kirk was a good man but because I am able to empathize and imagine how I would feel if one of my heroes were gunned down. And while everyone grieves in different ways, there are limits. Rep Drunken Van Orden has crossed those limits so often and so far that it’s disconcerting.
Since Kirk’s death, and long before any information about the shooter was known, DVO was blaming everyone and anyone for the death. Watch how he attacked these reporters:
From Raw Story:
“Every single one of you here. You’re at fault,” Van Orden insisted. “You are responsible for this, because you are echoing the horrifically horrible political violent rhetoric produced by the Democrat Party.”
“How can you say that when we don’t even know who the shooter is?” one reporter asked.
“You know what, knock it off!” the lawmaker replied. “You are responsible for that assassination yesterday. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Even Wisconsin’s corporate media giant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, had to take notice of DVO’s out of control behaviors:
