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The former ESPN presenter, Samantha Ponder, opened the “vicious” messages she received on social networks after crying the loss of Charlie Kirk after her murder.
Ponder appeared in “Saturday in America” of Pak Gazette Channel and remembered Kayleight Mcenany that she shunned a Kirk video and her family on social networks and did not think about anything.
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The then Vis reporter, Samantha Pander, observes her husband, the Marshal of the Minnesota Vikings Christian Ponder (not in the photo) in the training camp in Blakeslee Fields, on July 27, 2025. (Bruce Kluckhohn/USA Today Sports)
“The strange thing is that I really didn’t say much. He published a video of his family just because I thought he was very identifiable to see why he is a father. You forget when you see people on television sometimes this is just a father who is a husband and has these young children,” he said. “Then, I published a video of his family on vacation and immediately lost thousands of followers, and who cares? It’s not about me.
“But it was more about seeing what is happening in our country at this time and I received vicious messages, in which any of us who have worked on television obtained all the time. I am used to that. But it was in response to something that I thought we could all agree: man, it is sad when someone is killed. I thought that was something that the general public could agree.”
Ponder was worried about what people are seeing on different sides of social networks, since each person’s algorithm is different. She contrasts what I was seeing about Kirk and her family in the face of the messages she received.
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The then reporter of the then ESPN Samantha reflects on the assistance during the first half of the 2013 BCS championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Sun Life Stadium on January 7, 2013. (Matthew Emmons/USA Today Sports)
“I think he said a lot about where we are as a country, but I also think he says a lot about the algorithms we are dealing with,” he said. “I saw many people send me a message, saying ‘He was racist. He was a fan.” So, I thought: ‘I didn’t know that of him.
“I hardly blame people who felt like that because they are lying to them. They are cheated. They are not sitting and seeing a long debate with Charlie Kirk. They are seeing what gives them their algorithm. He had people who said:” I didn’t see anyone crying their death. “And I am thinking, I am seeing doctors, nurses, teachers, mothers who laughed at his death, his murder we all saw.
“Those people were not seeing everything. So, that tells us that we are seeing two different Americas and much is because of the social networks algorithm that we are all simply chronically addicted online, which is a real problem.”
Ponder was among the sports figures that talked about Kirk’s murder.
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Usa speaks during the Turning Point Action Conference, July 15, 2023, at West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, Archive)
The 31 -year -old was shot dead at an event at the University of Utah Valley. Tyler Robinson was arrested in Kirk’s death.
