Most Americans have no idea that the alleged killer of conservative leader Charlie Kirk was a leftist sympathetic with the antifa and “furry” movements.

In a revealing survey on the media’s coverage of Kirk’s assassination and the arrest of 22-year-old

🚨 EXCLUSIVE MRC POLL: Only 24% of likely voters know Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a radical leftist.

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While supporters of Kirk and his Turning Point USA organization were convinced Robinson’s left-wing and pro-LGBT politics drove him, media headlines such as NPR’s “Why did alleged assassin target Kirk? Evidence paints complicated picture,” were typical.

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“With nearly a quarter of respondents convinced that Kirk was killed by a right winger, it is inarguable that the corporate media have mangled the facts of the case. But the fact that the most common response was professed ignorance about Robinson’s motive highlights another pernicious aspect of the press’s approach to this story: their lack of interest,” said the analysis of the poll on MRC’s NewsBusters site.

“Given the media’s disastrous mishandling of this story, it should come as no surprise that respondents’ news consumption habits proved a significant determining factor in how they understood Robinson’s politics. Only 18.8% of those who primarily watched left-of-center cable news outlets were able to correctly describe his ideology, as compared to 27.7% who asserted that he was right-wing. Surprisingly, even among right-of-center cable news viewers, barely over a third of participants (33.5%) answered that Robinson was left-wing, and a still-considerable 18% believed him to be right-wing,” said the analysis.