"Media pundits, journalists, and academics, including MSNBC commentator Matthew Dowd, have also been fired or targeted over their comments about Kirk. Executives from Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, sent out an email to employees seemingly referencing Dowd's dismissal over an "unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event. That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue." In response to a request for comment, Comcast redirected WIRED to the aforementioned letter."
"Red Hood is also not the only cultural product being disappeared in light of Kirk's death. Comedy Central has decided not to rerun the South Park episode "Got a Nut," which satirized the right-wing activist. But Kirk himself had said the episode was "hilarious" and an example of the "cultural domination" of his Prove Me Wrong college campus debates; he even changed his show's TikTok profile picture to an image of the South Park character Cartman parodying him."
Media pundits, journalists, and academics faced firing or targeting over comments about Kirk. Comcast executives sent an internal email referencing Dowd’s dismissal for an "unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event," saying such coverage hindered civil dialogue. Cultural products linked to Kirk were pulled or withheld, including a Red Hood comic and a South Park rerun, though the episode remains available to stream on Paramount+. Kirk cofounded Turning Point at 18 and became a major conservative figure. His rhetoric was frequently inflammatory, racist, and transphobic, and he repeated myths about transgender mass shooters.
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