One of Kurtz’s colleagues mocked him for the cancellation of his show “Media Buzz.”

A Fox News host drew fire from inside the network for suggesting that conservatives may be going too far in their efforts to immortalize far-right activist Charlie Kirk after he was brutally murdered earlier this week. “Charlie Kirk was not a saint,” network mainstay Howard Kurtz said during a Sunday panel on his show, Media Buzz. “He said two years ago, it’s worth [it] to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so we can have the Second Amendment,” he went on, adding that “his murder makes this feel like a very dangerous time.” Kirk, who was shot and killed at a Utah campus event on Wednesday, did indeed make those remarks at a Turning Point USA conference in April 2023, describing gun deaths as “a prudent deal” and “rational” if they allowed Americans “to protect our other God-given rights.”