When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, there were no breaking news alerts on Americans’ smartphones.

But as the heartbreaking news about Charlie Kirk trickled in Wednesday, Kyle Smith, a film critic for The Wall Street Journal, imagined what the Kennedy coverage might have looked like today.

That was hyperbole, though not so far off from some of the comments on MSNBC that caused the left-leaning cable network to trend on X for a while — and later apologize.

Anchor Katy Tur and some of her guests seemed to struggle to refrain from the sort of rhetoric that is a hallmark of MSNBC, which is reliably antagonistic to Donald Trump and his supporters.

Sometimes, they didn’t succeed, as when Tur said, “You can imagine the (Trump) administration using this as a justification for something.”

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