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🗞️ Story file #1615

Erika Kirk criticizes Dave Chappelle's joke about husband's murder

Nov 9, 12 AM ET to Nov 9, 10 AM ET

📰 read it at: Raw Story Mediaite The Independent The Hill Breitbart New York Post

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Nov 9, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
  2. Nov 9, 12 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  3. Nov 9, 5 AM ETretold online by 9 people
  4. Nov 9, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 9, 12 AM to Nov 9, 10 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Nov 8, 12 PM6 PMNov 96 AMRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Nov 8, 8:02 AM ET: Enraged MAGA fans have meltdown over Dave Chappelle's new Charlie Kirk jokeMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Nov 8, 12:03 PM ET: MAGA Influencers Outraged at Dave Chappelle Saying He Feels ‘Better’ After Charlie Kirk’s Murder: ‘Disgusting!’BreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Nov 8, 4:01 PM ET: Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch ‘Beyond Disgusting’ Attacks on Charlie KirkBreitbart, Nov 9, 10:02 AM ET: Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch ‘Beyond Disgusting’ Remarks About Charlie’s MurderThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Nov 8, 9:01 PM ET: Erika Kirk appears to blast Dave Chappelle over ‘disgusting’ joke about husband’s murderThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Nov 8, 11:01 PM ET: Kirk finds Dave Chappelle’s joke about husband’s murder ‘beyond disgusting’New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Nov 9, 12:02 AM ET: Erika Kirk blasts ‘leftist’ comedians after Dave Chappelle’s joke about husband Charlie’s murder: ‘Beyond disgusting’📺 TVFox News, 5:54 AM ET: ERIKA KIRK SLAMS JOKES ABOUT HUSBAND'S MURDERFox News, 6:55 AM ET: FAR-LEFT MOCKS KIRK'S DEATH TWICE IN PAST FEW DAYSFox News, 6:56 AM ET: FAR-LEFT MOCKS KIRK'S DEATH TWICE IN PAST FEW DAYSFox News, 6:56 AM ET: FAR-LEFT MOCKS KIRK'S DEATH TWICE IN PAST FEW DAYSFox News, 8:07 AM ET: TODAY: ACCUSED CHARLIE KIRK KILLER DUE IN COURTFox News, 8:07 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:09 AM ET: TODAY: ACCUSED CHARLIE KIRK KILLER DUE IN COURTFox News, 8:10 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:11 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:11 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:11 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:12 AM ET: CHAPPELLE: I FEEL BETTER SINCE KIRK GOT MURDEREDFox News, 8:14 AM ET: CHAPPELLE: I FEEL BETTER SINCE KIRK GOT MURDEREDFox News, 8:15 AM ET: FAR-LEFT MOCKS KIRK'S DEATH TWICE IN PAST FEW DAYSFox News, 8:16 AM ET: FAR-LEFT MOCKS KIRK'S DEATH TWICE IN PAST FEW DAYSFox News, 8:25 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:34 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLERFox News, 8:58 AM ET: CHARLIE KIRK. ACCUSED KILLER🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “Beyond Disgusting”5
  2. “Better”1
  3. “leftist”1
  4. “Beyond disgusting”5

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch ‘Beyond Disgusting’ Attacks on Charlie Kirk” → “Erika Kirk Slams Dave Chappelle, Jennifer Welch ‘Beyond Disgusting’ Remarks About Charlie’s Murder”
📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🐘 Fox News 5 min

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Dave Chappelle said he feels better since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Nov 9: told by 9 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

Dave ChappelleCharlie KirkErika KirkMAGAJennifer WelchKirk

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Charlie Kirk joke controversy

  1. Podcast hosts apologize after sponsors leave over reaction to Charlie Kirk joke

    Nov 8, 12 PM ET

  2. Erika Kirk criticizes Dave Chappelle's joke about husband's murder (this story)

    Nov 9, 12 AM ET