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LeftInTX

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Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:15 PM Apr 29

Erica Kirk's reason for attending WHCD kinda backfired [View all]

"So, during an active shooting, these journalists are using their phones to find moments to capture for clips," Kirk said.


"They were so concerned about getting a video in a room with an active shooter that they could have accidentally and quite literally filmed themselves being shot," she added. "Many of those people have become so desensitized that flight or flight became secondary to the opportunity of putting themselves in the story, which ironically, breaks the number one rule of journalism."

Kirk explained why she went to the event, claiming that "many of the journalists in that room" have tried to dehumanize her. She said she wanted to meet some of them face-to-face.

"Why have a conversation about me when you can have a conversation with me?" Kirk said.


https://foxsanantonio.com/news/nation-world/erika-kirk-america-has-become-unrecognizable-in-wake-of-utter-chaos-at-whcd-white-house-correspondents-dinner-active-shooting-gunshots-gunfire-assassination-attempt-donald-trump-jd-vance-gunshots-guns-knives-daggers-weapons-cole-tomas-allen

Also the Daily Beast covered it


Erika Kirk Reveals Eyebrow-Raising Reason She Went to WHCA Dinner

Erika Kirk says she made a cross-country trip to confront journalists at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner because she was fed-up with their reporting on her.

Erika said “everyone was asking” why she “even went to the White House Correspondents’ dinner.” She explained that it was because she wanted to confront some journalists, for whom the event was supposed to be honoring, for their coverage of her.


https://archive.ph/KnePt




"I just want to go home"....And so there was another conversation about Erica Kirk....

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