The Federalist
"What does matter is the left’s embrace of political violence and the left-wing terrorist ecosystem that enables that violence. Right now, it’s the only thing that matters. So that’s what we’re going to talk about, and act upon, until we get the situation under control."
"The national conversation we need to have right now is not about free speech.
"The conversation we need to have is about the normalization of political violence on the left. We need to be talking about left-wing Antifa/trans terrorists gunning down Christians in broad daylight while Democrats and the corporate press justify it and the online left celebrates it.
"That’s the only conversation that matters right now. The manufactured outrage over ABC canceling Jimmy Kimmel’s show is an attempt to change the conversation, to flip the script so that instead of talking about the first major political assassination in America in sixty years, instead of talking about the mainstream left’s embrace of political violence and the institutional ecosystem that foments and funds that violence, we can talk about whether President Trump is using Kirk’s murder as a pretext to crack down on free speech and silence his enemies.
"What nonsense — and what a tell. It speaks volumes that Democrats, liberal media, and online leftists are so desperate to pivot away from talking about Kirk’s assassination that they have chosen to take up the transparently stupid cause of Kimmel’s free speech rights. Remember, these are people who don’t care at all about free speech. Some of those rending their garments this week over Kimmel’s cancellation were the same people who cheered on government censorship during Covid. They love censorship, so long as it’s their side doing the censoring.
"And it hardly needs to be said that nothing about the Kimmel story implicates free speech in any way. Kimmel didn’t just mock MAGA or criticize Kirk, he patently lied about the ideology of Kirk’s alleged assassin, and by allowing his comments to air, ABC arguably violated the terms of its FCC license.
"During his Monday show, Kimmel said this: “The MAGA gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”
"Anyone with an internet connection and half a brain cell knows that Kirk’s alleged killer was deeply into Antifa and transgender ideologies, and that he specifically targeted Kirk for speaking out against these things. He was a creature wholly of the left, and to declare otherwise, as Kimmel did, is a deliberate falsification of the facts surrounding the most high-profile political assassination of our time.
"That means Kimmel blatantly violated FCC regulations. Public broadcasters like ABC are prohibited from spreading false information about a crime or catastrophe, and they can lose their licensure if they don’t adhere to the relevant federal regulations.
"No surprise then that Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, addressed Kimmel’s comments when he went on Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday. “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. " . . .
Murderers of the Land That Bore Them
. . . "To this end, Charlie Kirk’s politics were purely incidental. The slanders of “racist,” “misogynist,” “transphobe,” and whatever other absurdity they lobbed at the man were simply covers to justify their nihilistic desire to destroy. These are the same people who cheer the murder of children in Christian schools or in Israeli villages, none of whom were anywhere remotely guilty of the slanders with which the left routinely denigrates their opponents. They don't cheer Kirk's murder because they think he was bad. They cheer Kirk's murder because they know he was good.
On paper, these nihilists have little reason to be angry. They are the most privileged people ever produced in the entirety of human history. They have everything, but they are nothing. And maybe that’s the root cause of this…a smug, arrogant attitude that screams through a bullhorn that the universe revolves around them and their feelings. And when this produces not happiness, but its exact opposite, they turn not to humility or reflection or development, but to envy, bitterness, spite, resentment, and hate." . . .
