Clay Travis - Co-Host, "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show" Joins Houston's Morning News | Reaction to Charlie Kirk Assassination

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven fifty one now here on Houston's Boring News, were
joined by Klay Travis of Clay and Buck. Of course,
you can hear them every morning starting eleven am here
on news radio seven forty k r H. A pleasure
to talk to Clay. I wish it was under better circumstances,
but I want to run something past you. I've been
kind of talking about a lot this morning. I want
to get your opinion here. Charlie Kirk obviously a target

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for his effectiveness in presenting a conservative message to young people,
highly effective of what he did swaying an election in
the direction of President Trump, that's one thing. But I
think there was a bigger message trying to be sent
by the progressive left yesterday, and that is shut up.
Shut the hell up, And if you aren't willing to
do that, then this could happen to you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Look, you know I didn't sleep well last night, as
I imagine a lot of your listeners and a lot
of our listeners didn't sleep well at all either, And
I think that's what you kind of hit at. I mean, look,
this was a free speech event on a college campus
where you could walk up to a mic and legitimately
argue anything under the sun. There are few events that

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are more open to the marketplace of ideas and instead,
this person, it seems quite clearly planned their attack so
that they could kill Charlie Kirk. They couldn't win arguments
with him with words, and so they chose to end

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his life with violence. And I think that is particularly
strong as a metaphor because what we have allowed to
occur in this country is an argument to be made
that words are violence. And when you make the argument
words are violence, if you follow that to its logical extent,

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then you can respond in kind to words with violence.
And that's what we saw, and I think the message
is quite clear because you can already see gleeful left
wing activists online talking about who the next target is
and the goal is to make everyone withal as the

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goal is with all terror attacks, to make everyone afraid
to do what they know is right. Courage and bravery
are rare, and terrorism relies on that being true, and
a lot of people getting quiet in response to acts
of terror, which is clearly what this was. So what

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I would impart on everybody, and certainly what I'm going
to be talking about on my show later today alongside
a buck is this should be a clarion call for
everyone who may have been too quiet in the past
to speak louder and not allow the people who would
silence speech and debate, which I think is the most

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fundamental of all of our rights, to in any way
be curtailed.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
This, to me is a perfect example of what you're
talking about. There's a teacher she teaches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
name is Amanda Dobson. She posted online Charlie Kirk was
a racist, enophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, sexist, white nationalist mouthpiece who
made millions of dollars in citing hatred in this country.
She went on to say whether it was his genocide denial,

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his transphobic tirates, his pushing for deportations, or normalizing trump
Ism for years, the manson for nothing but hate. I
extend absolutely no empathy for people like that. That's what
the left has done. They have taken people who are
just conservatives who believe in real American values, and they've
reduced them to being non humans. It's easy to kill
somebody when you see them as a non human, or

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Hitler or a Nazi. Well, this is what.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I said last night on Sean Hannity's show, when you
call Donald Trump a Nazi and Adolph Hitler for ten
years and say that American freedoms are effectively going to end,
I would actually respect the argument more if they said, yeah,
this is what we want to happen, because what I

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don't respect is what they try to do, which is
when these acts of violence happen, when Butler Pennsylvania happens,
or when the shooting of Charlie Kirk happens, you immediately
have the Barack Obamas of the world speak out and say, oh, well,
violence is never the answer, this is unacceptable. But you
can't do that because you have unleashed the torrents of

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the whirlwind of crazy people who think that they are heroes.
In their narrative of life. They see themselves as someone
stepping up to kill Adolf Hitler and stop him from
taking over the world. And so when you create this,
when you create this sickness, you can't then claim that
you didn't create it and try to turn it off

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after it happens.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right, Clay, we got to run, but thank you so
much for your time this morning. We will look forward
to your show this morning with Buck at eleven AM.
Thank you, appreciate y'all.