Far-left podcasters apologize after laughing at insensitive joke about Charlie Kirk

Podcasters Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan drew criticism from political commentators after laughing at a social media post about exhuming the body of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.The two issued an apology on Saturday. During Thursday’s episode of Welch’s “I’ve Had It” podcast, the two women laughed as they read social media reactions to Democrats’ victories in the 2026 midterm elections.Several posts mocked conservative positions on issues including abortion, vaccines and LGBTQ+ policies.“Somebody posted, ‘I don’t care if you celibate or abstinent.

Grab the nearest person available and do your worst.Abortion’s on me,’” Welch said, reading from the social media posts.The pair continued to laugh as they read other social media reactions mocking Republicans following the party’s midterm election losses.“You can’t even fathom the pronouns we’re going to invent,” Welch read while laughing.

“You can’t even pronounce them.”The podcast host praised the writers of the various posts, calling the jokesters “patriots” and insisting that “these people make me patriotic.”Welch further broke out into laughter while reading another post aloud: “We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.”On Saturday, the two hosts apologized via a post on Instagram.“On Thursday’s show, we laughed at a joke about Charlie Kirk.It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed.

We regret it, and we apologize,” the statement read.“Whatever our political differences, there is nothing funny about gun violence.

We’ve long supported common-sense gun safety reform.” “To that end, we’ve made a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in America,” the statement continued.“We’ll keep using our platforms to fight for the safety of all Americans.”During Thursday’s episode, after laughing at the post, the hosts said, “No comment,” before asserting without...