Conservative author and political commentator Mary Katharine Ham appeared on the Real Clear Politics podcast this week and made some interesting points about the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last week.
Ham pointed out that the media immediately tried to make it all about them and then shifted to trying to make it about Jimmy Kimmel.
She also cautioned the media that they need to be more careful and consider the consequences of all the ‘Hitler’ talk. She suggests that the shooter in this case seemed to be acting directly from mainstream liberal talking points, which is kind of amazing when you think about it.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
“I do appreciate people who stood up and tried to get information… but let’s not amp it up too much,” Ham said, noting that very few of the reports we’ve seen mention that the shooter “was a floor up from us.”
“Then the coverage afterwards seemed to turn away from the assassination attempt—because Trump being a victim is something that is uncomfortable for the press,” she said. “So we’re three stories removed from the assassination attempt before we’ve really dealt with the assassination attempt.”
“As a free speech person, I want a wide latitude for being jerks in public,” she said. “But they are constantly telling people from a perch of power and influence that the duly elected president of the U.S. is a traitor, pedophile, rapist—which is what this attempted assassin absorbed and regurgitated.”
“A lot of people on the left said the quiet part out loud. This manifesto doesn’t seem very weird; it sounds like what they talk about at dinner parties. At some point, if you think you’re killing baby Hitler, as many of these people seem to, the chances that someone who is ‘a little off’ is going to take that seriously are pretty decent in a large country.”
Watch the whole thing below:
@mkhammer: Media Needs to Consider Consequences of “Kill Baby Hitler” Politics
“This manifesto sounds like what a lot of people on the left talk about at dinner.”
“If people think they’re ‘killing baby Hitler,’ the chance is high someone ‘a little off’ will take it seriously.” https://t.co/8DQauOUsUq pic.twitter.com/562v0Dlrk2
— RealClearPolitics (@RCPolitics) May 1, 2026
Ham is right about all of this, but it remains doubtful that the media will ever learn a lesson from it.
They are a division of the Democrat party and that fact animates everything they do and say.
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