Charlie Kirk: “We lost the messaging war” on the government shutdown Written by Media Matters Staff Published 10/03/23 12:56 PM EDT Video file Citation From the October 3, 2023 edition of Salem Radio Networks' The Charlie Kirk Show CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Of course we went through the shutdown conversation, which was not even a shutdown. It would have been a temporary pause in government spending. A temporary pause in some government business. We lost the messaging war on that and we capitulated.