Posted on 09/16/2025 11:54:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Actor Michael Keaton spoke out about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a rare move in a Hollywood culture where most celebrities have remained silent.
The 74-year-old “Beetlejuice” actor made his opinions known at the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ 50th anniversary gala on Monday night, per Variety.
“Before we start to get into the meat of this thing, I’m going to take a minute to say that, regardless of how I probably — not probably — have disagreed with many things he said, Charlie Kirk leaves behind two kids and a wife,” Keaton said during his speech. “You gotta remember that.”
“Because in the end, shooting people will never answer anything, and the irony that he was killed with a gun is unbelievable,” he said.
“60 Minutes” journalist Scott Pelley also discussed Kirk at the same event, saying his assassination is an affront to First Amendment rights.
“Charlie Kirk was murdered to silence his speech, and three months earlier, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered to silence their speech,” Pelley said. “Many admired Kirk; many did not. His catchphrase was ‘Prove me wrong.’ To some, that phrase was controversial, even dismissive. But the core idea was: Bring the proof and let’s debate.”
“Whether you agreed with Kirk’s ideas or Hortman’s, their murders, their silencing, is blood on the First Amendment,” he added.
Keaton has supported Democratic candidates in the past, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. Despite once saying that celebrities shouldn’t dabble too much in politics, he also came out ahead of the 2024 presidential election to slam Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
The actor is one of several leftists willing to discuss Kirk’s death. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis also mentioned it on Monday, telling Marc Maron during an appearance on his “WTF” podcast, “I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind. Charlie Crist was killed two days ago.”
“Kirk, not Crist,” Maron replied, prompting Curtis to say, “I just call him Crist, I think, because of Christ, because of his deep belief.”
The actress stated that she “disagreed” with Kirk on all issues but said, “I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died that he felt connected to his faith,” as she became emotional.
“Even though I find what his ideas were abhorrent to me, I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever ‘connection to God’ means, that he felt it.”
She also expressed her discomfort with videos of Kirk’s death being shared so much on social media.
I follow the news exerpted on FreeRepublic and several other sites, and the Hortman murders in Minnesota seemed to be totally out of the news cycle. Maybe that’s because the news outlets in Minneapolis are less inclined to push the police & prosecutors for information and are content pushing the government line on violence?
“Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered to silence their speech,” Pelley said”
It’s disgusting how the left is working over time to make Hortman a victim of a right wing crime.
I'm not judging, Jamie, I'm just guessing, but if you don't know what a connection to God is, then you don't have one. You'll be one of the billions who will be told "I never knew you". Sad.
I promise that I just picked one of his many movies, the one that I though would be a silly one to bring up in light of the shooter’s transgender support. Keaton’s low budget Mr. Mom movie had a lot of humor based on a man trying to do things like a woman.
They only say this stuff because reporters ask. Reporters ask because they know it will get a “reaction.” Reactions, or ‘clicks’, are money in the bank.
People scour the internet looking for stuff to give them a “reaction.” They have to feel that hit of dopamine. And like any junkie…the more you get, the more you want—and the less effective the next hit will be.
Whenever you read a post and you are hearing the same phrasing that you’ve seen on TV or X or Facebook or TikTok…then you are dealing with someone who isn’t thinking for themselves.
The whole “both sides” argument from the left is one example. The old “Lame Stream Media” from the right is an example from that side.
The best thing you can do for your sanity is when you hear “catchphrases” is to disengage and move on. Think for yourself. Repeating their ‘branding’ is just reinforcing the mind control crap that is going on.
It happens here. It happens every where. Fight back by not engaging.
Batman isn’t real. You know that, right?
I think it’s ironic that an actor that played Batman won’t condemn the evil that resulted in Kirk’s death.
I am ... Batshit
How dare you. I AM real.
His mouth has a bad case of guanorrhea.
“...Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered to silence their speech...”
They were murdered by a LEFTWING nut (is there any other kind?). The killer was appointed by democrat Tim Walz.
The murders are ALWAYS committed by democrats, democrats, democrats!
I hope you’re not still receiving royalties for that shitful portrayal of Batman.
How much delusion do you figure exists on this site? Give us fellow Freepers the credit of some rationality eh. I know there are one or two admitted furries here but haven’t seen them chiming in on all this so far. In fact I’ve forgotten their nicknames so who knows.
I liked him in Gung-Ho. However, he didn’t portray himself as some judgmental Hollywood elite.
I think more Hollywood types will speak-out against Charlie Kirk as they try to outdo each other in their contempt for Christians and Conservatives.
“Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman”
Not equilant at all.
Millions across the nation knew who CK was and the slanderous vitriol thrown at him.
Who even knew who the Hortmans were outside of Minnesota?
It’s not delusion. It is intellectual laziness. It’s a commitment to dogma. It’s an inability to see two sides of an argument.
I like the articles people post. But lately there has been a lot of reliance on blogs and some really obscure sources. Just in the last couple of weeks there has been stuff posted from some really sketchy very right wing writers.
The dogma from both sides is tiresome.
A gun is immaterial. Kirk was killed by a Leftist. A person full of nothing but hate. Confiscate all guns and there is still the leftist and fifty other ways to kill.
Some attention addict looking to be noticed. I think we should just ignore these fools.
The assassinations of Hortman (who?) and Kirk are nowhere near on the same level.
I can appreciate that Jamie Lee Curtis at least was respectful of Charlie Kirk, even as she concedes that she didn’t agree with him on much of anything. She recognized that he was a husband, father and man of faith. If more people would respond the way she did, I think the temperature would lower quite a few degrees in this country.
Even Scott Pelley sounded reasonable compared to most of the comments we’ve been seeing from the left.
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