The mainstream media has never hidden its contempt for people of faith. Dismissing traditional values as relics. Treating churchgoing Americans like suspects. We’ve watched this hostility build for years. But what one major network decided to do in the wake of a young man’s murder? That crosses into something darker. Something uglier. Instead of allowing a grieving family and community to mourn in peace, certain journalists apparently spotted an opportunity — not for healing, but for ammunition.

You might think the brutal assassination of a conservative leader would give the press a moment’s pause. A beat of self-reflection, maybe. Some acknowledgment that years of inflammatory rhetoric carry consequences. You’d be wrong. The same media machine that spent years painting a target on Charlie Kirk’s back has returned. This time, they’re coming for his memory.

From The Post Millennial:

CNN’s Pamela Brown announces she has been working on a “special project” to warn the nation about the rise of “Christian nationalism” following the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The hour-long documentary, scheduled to be released this upcoming weekend, will examine how Kirk’s murder became a “rallying call” for Christian nationalists to take action nationwide, she said.

“Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and prominent Christian nationalist, was assassinated. It became a rallying call for those who believed in his message. And it was a call to action,” said Brown in a sneak preview of the unaired segment.

CNN examined Americans weeping over a young man gunned down by an assassin — and identified a threat.

A Memorial Becomes a Target

Brown’s documentary reportedly features Georgetown University scholar Matthew Taylor, who told CNN that Kirk’s well-attended Arizona memorial represented a “shift in our culture.” Taylor claims the service demonstrated how “a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas, radicalized by these ideas.”

Radicalized. For attending a funeral. For mourning a friend. For listening to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth encourage attendees to “put Christ at the center of your life.”

That’s the bar now. Encouraging people to embrace faith at a Christian man’s funeral constitutes radicalization.

NewsBusters noted that the documentary preview featured an “ominous soundtrack” playing over footage of the memorial. A deliberate choice. Someone in an editing room decided that images of grieving Christians needed sinister music to properly frighten viewers. The network that constantly lectures about disinformation has zero problem manipulating emotions through cheap cinematic tricks.

Brown characterized the event as marking “unprecedented alignment between Christian nationalists and the Trump administration.” Translation: the President attended a funeral for a prominent supporter, and CNN finds that suspicious. The documentary will reportedly feature interviews with people “sounding the alarm” about American Christianity. Not radical Islam. Not violent anarchists. Church attendance. That’s what keeps Pamela Brown up at night.

The Irony Is Almost Unbearable

Here’s what CNN has actually done. Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025. A gunman shot him in the neck while he spoke at Utah Valley University. His widow, Erika, in an act of grace most of us can barely comprehend, publicly forgave her husband’s killer at the memorial. CNN’s response? Spend months building a case that the people who loved Charlie Kirk are dangerous extremists.

Think about that timeline. A man gets murdered. His community gathers to mourn. His wife forgives the shooter on national television. And a major news network dispatches reporters to frame the mourners as a national security concern.

This is the same media ecosystem that spent years labeling Kirk and his supporters as extremists, white nationalists, and threats to democracy. The same rhetoric that creates environments where a 22-year-old convinces himself that murdering a conservative activist is somehow justified. Kirk has barely been laid to rest, and they’ve circled back to smear everyone who showed up to say goodbye.

Faith leaders reported a 15 percent increase in church attendance following Kirk’s death. Young Americans sought meaning and hope in tragedy’s wake. CNN frames this religious renewal not as a silver lining but as evidence of “radicalization.” People turning to God during grief now constitutes a warning sign. Remarkable.

Charlie Kirk wanted to be remembered for his faith and his courage. Americans who still value decency should make sure he is — regardless of whatever propaganda CNN airs this weekend.

Key Takeaways

• CNN is releasing an hour-long documentary framing Charlie Kirk’s memorial service as a “Christian nationalist” threat.
• The network spent months turning a grieving community’s funeral into propaganda against people of faith.
• A Georgetown scholar featured in the documentary claims mourning Christians have been “radicalized.”
• Kirk explicitly wanted to be remembered for his faith — CNN chose to attack that legacy instead.

Sources: The Post Millennial, Newsbusters