Talk show host Megyn Kelly pointed the finger at parents for a recent TikTok trend in approval of Osama bin Laden.
Thursday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show featured clips of TikTok videos where users are seen praising bin Laden’s letter he wrote to America following his directed attacks on New York’s Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Kelly shared her reaction, which centered on parents of these users “failing” their children.
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“Now your kids and my kids are going to have to deal with these cretins who hate America because we made them, because their parents failed them,” Kelly said. “Their educators failed them. Corporate America continues to fail them. The media continues to fail them, and it’s the fight for our lives. If you don’t think this has come to a school near you or a community near you, you haven’t been paying attention. I’m so angry.”
Kelly went as far as to promise her own children would not be among the TikTok users who approve of terrorist attacks against the United States. She went on to express her fear that this attitude toward terrorist groups could mean another similar attack is on the horizon.
“Get off your f***ing iPhone. Pay attention to your child. Look at your kids’ lessons,” Kelly said. “Do some parenting if you’re going to bother having a child, and stop indoctrinating your own children to those of you who are on the Left in this pernicious woke ideology because this is where it lands. I’m very fired up about it, Carol. I feel like we’re totally forgetting we’re forgetting 9/11, and it’s — you know what’s going to happen: It’s gonna happen again.”
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Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) has pointed to this trend as reason enough to ban the platform across the United States. Already government employees are prohibited from using the app.
Even the White House is attempting to do some damage control, with spokesman Andrew Bates saying the letter is full of “repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies.” Bates discouraged anyone from associating themselves with the sentiment of the letter, which calls on Americans to live by Shariah law or prepare to fight the Islamic nation.
