"One of those conditions is that you can’t broadcast false information about a crime or catastrophe if it will cause public harm. Given the overheated temperature at which America is operating now, if Kimmel knowingly misstated information about Kirk’s murder in order to foment unruliness and hatred, ABC can lose its license."
"Five days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the FBI and Utah law enforcement informed the public that Kirk’s alleged killer is a leftist gay man in a relationship with a mentally ill man who thinks he’s an animal and a woman, and who seems to follow “furry” pedophile cartoonists. Nevertheless, on September 15, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel did a monologue implying that the killer was a MAGA activist. I don’t pretend to know Kimmel’s beliefs when he made that statement, but it was incredibly cruel and light-years away from the publicly available facts.
"I suspect that, as much as anything, it was an attention getter, as Kimmel tried to woo back his audience. Kimmel has been playing to a hard left audience for years now. Nevertheless, in the second Trump era, Kimmel still managed to lose 43% of that audience over eight months. Given how leftists responded to Kirk’s death (viciously and irrationally), he probably thought that if he, too, were vicious and irrational, they’d return home. Instead, in addition to losing his audience, Kimmel lost his job.
"The same leftists who’d thrilled to Kirk’s murder were utterly appalled that Kimmel was given the boot. How dare the network sack him (well, suspend him indefinitely) for saying something cruel, inaccurate, and offensive? Hasn’t ABC heard of free speech? And the whole suspension thing wasn’t voluntary anyway, they cried, because the Trump administration had threatened to destroy it if it didn’t fire Kimmel." . . .
. . . "Given that the government has the power, there’s no reason not to use the power. And the fact that Democrats might be mean later is not a reason to restrain ourselves now. After all, Democrats have already demonstrated that they will use both fair means and foul to their utmost in order to destroy conservatives.
"If we keep being super pure and playing by antiquated rules of political conduct, we will ultimately be destroyed. " . . .
So sad to see the political climate on the left dragging us all down. TD
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