The Washington Examiner‘s Joe Concha condemned actress Hannah Einbinder’s “insufferable” speech on Sunday at the “no longer” relevant Emmy Awards, saying the awards ceremony was outshone by the viral tributes to Charlie Kirk at other events.
Einbinder said “f*** ICE and free Palestine” during her acceptance speech. Concha said it was “amazing” that Einbinder made such a statement when she’s Jewish and asked why she wouldn’t call for the freedom of Hamas‘s 48 hostages.
“The good news is that most people ignored or weren’t aware that the Emmys, which used to be kind of a big deal, were even on last night. So her message, while being hailed in the dying and almost irrelevant legacy media when looking at the headlines this morning, will be forgotten by lunchtime, thankfully. But again, it’s just so insufferable,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First.
Concha also said he didn’t see any tributes to the late Charlie Kirk during the award show. However, he said, “thankfully,” multiple football and baseball stadiums commemorated the Turning Point USA founder in “bigger arenas” than the Emmys.
Vice President JD Vance hosted The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday to honor him. Concha said Vance was “truly a friend” of Kirk’s and that, in hosting the show, he showed that he is “truly not just a man of words, but of action.”
“Having met him, JD Vance is the real deal,” Concha said.
CHARLIE KIRK’S MURDER COULD BE TURNING POINT, OR TIPPING POINT, IN POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC
Concha said early Thursday, the morning after Kirk was killed, that the political rhetoric in the United States is unlikely to simmer down. He said the political temperature didn’t go down after President Donald Trump narrowly survived assassination attempts last year and believes it’s a matter of time before the U.S. goes “right back” to the usual rhetoric.
The Kennedy Center held a vigil in Kirk’s memory on Sunday night, during which thousands of people gathered to reflect on Kirk’s work. In interviews with the Washington Examiner, German political activist Naomi Seibt said Kirk was “a very big inspiration” for her, and Michael Brown, a college student, said it’s important to “not roll over and to keep doing what he did.”