{"id":13106,"date":"2025-09-15T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/?p=13106"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:49:39","slug":"13106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/?p=13106","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star Phil Mickelson slams &#8216;disgusting rhetoric&#8217; after Charlie Kirk assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The assassination of Charlie Kirk is bringing out some of the best in humanity and it\u2019s also exposing some of the worst,&#8221; he wrote on X in response to a statement from the president of the Oxford Union. &#8220;The unification, love, support, and outcry on his behalf throughout the world is heartwarming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The number of people supporting Tyler Robinson\u2019s appalling behavior has opened my eyes to a side of extremism with a moral superiority complex that has also shaken my belief in people in general. I hope they are held accountable for their disgusting rhetoric.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mickelson also shared a post featuring one of Kirk\u2019s debates. The talk with another student featured Kirk shutting down a college-aged man and his &#8220;hate&#8221; for billionaires like President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;and Elon Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;His ability to use words and his intellect to win debates is what scared them,&#8221; Mickelson wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The assassination of Charlie Kirk is bringing out some of the best in humanity and it\u2019s also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13109,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions\/13109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbalrights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}