Cheek Media's Hannah Ferguson grilled about Charlie Kirk post

Radio host James Willis has questioned Cheek Media’s CEO Hannah Ferguson about posts she made in the hours after the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. 

In a lengthy article posted to her Substack and Instagram the same day as the fatal shooting of conservative Kirk, Ferguson questioned whether violence was “sometimes necessary”.

“Must we condemn every act of political violence?" she wrote.

"Should violent views be met with violence? … While these important questions are asked, the right is mobilising to make a martyr of Kirk.” 

Ferguson added, “Am I glad Charlie Kirk will no longer spread his extremist messaging? Yes. Am I happy that someone shot him in the neck in broad daylight? No. Do I believe he empowered the violence that ended his life? Yes. Do I believe he caused more harm than good? Yes. Is violence sometimes necessary? Yes.”

 

 

 

 

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On Tuesday on his show, Willis spoke to Ferguson over the phone, and read back to her her own words.

Ferguson said, “I was responding to celebration online that I disagreed with.”

Willis said, "You've gone on TV this morning and spoken about the incident with Helen Haines as appalling. 

"Is violence sometimes necessary? Yes.

“This is hours after a bloke was shot dead.”

Ferguson responded that historically, sometimes a group has needed to rise up against an oppressor, where violence has been necessary to overcome hatred and oppression.

"But my point being that [Helen Haines] was not one of those instances.

“Charlie Kirk advocated for violence and incited violence," she said citing his staunch defense of the second amendment right to bear arms, even if it results in some deaths.

Willis questioned that if Ferguson would do things differently now, and not when “the bloke's not even cold”.

Ferguson responded, "If I went back in time, would I change what I said, yes.

“I think I'd add more context and word things different.”