Why I Won't Celebrate the Murder of Rob Reiner

It’s easy to get into a pattern in our Virtual Civil War. After any tragedy, we try to assign blame almost immediately. If it’s a mass shooting, which side was the shooter on? After the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, many of us watched the Left not just celebrate his death, but feel emboldened to do so. You know, you’ve seen the tweets and the videos because I’ve shown them to you.

When I heard Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were murdered, I didn’t feel like celebrating. I didn’t feel happy or that he got what was coming to him.

Oh, I let him have it while he was alive. He’s been the subject of many of my pieces on here — the Christmas Carol parodies and others, see below.

He was, like so many Democrats, trapped in a Doomsday Cult where every day was the end of the world. He was one of the names I would bring up to describe your typical unhinged Democrat. But I never felt hate in my heart for him, the way they do on the Left for Charlie.

I never saw Rob Reiner as an enemy. If anything, I wanted him to release his obsession with Trump, just as I do with everyone else on the Left, so we can be decent to each other again.

Rob Reiner made some of my favorite movies. When Harry Met Sally:

This is Spinal Tap

A Few Good Men

Misery

And Stand By Me

At first, when I heard about his death last night on X, I thought, Oh no. Here we go. There will be a round of “MAGA did it.” But knife wounds aren’t really in character with how that would go if a Trump supporter did it (which they never would).

As the mystery unfolded, and the truth came out that it was his own son who did the deed, allegedly, I felt sorrow for him and his family. Whatever politics I carry around with me vanished. Now, on X, so many are trying to make this somehow a negative on MAGA by shapeshifting around and acting as though getting people fired, Jimmy Kimmel’s two seconds of downtime, was somehow an overreaction to their inhumanity.

Even if some in MAGA are not saying nice things about him, no one is celebrating. There isn’t a viral TikTok trend of “He had it coming.” No one is staring into the camera with their bright, evil eyes and smiling. That isn’t happening, and it would never happen.

The story that Nick Reiner killed his parents broke on People magazine last night, though as of this morning, the headlines are still being cautious around it:

I watched this video of Rob Reiner and his son, Nick. The young man seems a little emotionally unstable in this video, but that wouldn’t necessarily mean he would ever do something so violent as to stab his own parents to death.

They made a movie together about Nick’s struggles with heroin.

But even here, ten years ago, Reiner talks about Trump. Maybe he didn’t know it then because Trump hadn’t yet won, but that would consume the rest of his life. All I could think was that there had to be a better way to live. Politics can’t take the best years from us. It’s already taken too much.

Either way, my heart goes out to his family. Rest in peace.