6 Times Leftists Melting Down Over Jimmy Kimmel Were Happy To Deny Conservatives ‘Free Speech’
The left doesn’t really care about Kimmel or free speech, it’s just about exploiting a convenient storyline to keep their narrative of Trump-is-authoritarian alive.
ABC News pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air on Wednesday. Not for being painfully unfunny, and not even for having an opinion. No, Kimmel got yanked because he flat-out lied and claimed: “the MAGA gang desperately [is] trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
It was a pure lie. Following widespread criticism, Nextstar Media Group said its ABC affiliate stations would not run Kimmel’s show over the comments.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr noted ABC could face repercussions, but he didn’t force ABC to do anything. ABC made the call on its own — whether to protect its bottom line or because it knew it would lose in court. Notably, FCC regulations prohibit news distortion or a hoax. A station’s broadcast violates the FCC’s rules if “the station licensee knew that the information was false” or if “broadcasting the false information directly causes substantial public harm…”
Nonetheless, the professional censorship class on the left has suddenly discovered the First Amendment.
Harry Sisson took to X to claim “We are witnessing the most brazen attack on free speech in modern American history. Elon, Trump, and MAGA said they were free speech warriors. It’s the exact opposite.”
Matt Yglesias wrote on an entire article about “MAGA’s scary clampdown on free speech.”
David French called Kimmel’s removal a “direct attack on free speech.”
Vox’s Zack Beauchamp wrote Kimmel’s removal is the “most brazen attack on free speech yet.”
But where was this passion for “free speech” when ABC canceled the hit sitcom “Roseanne” in 2018 after Roseanne Barr referred to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
The left cheered the cancellation, with French posting: “Roseanne canceled. Who could have possibly foreseen that a toxic person would be so toxic?”
No handwringing about censorship then. --->READ MORE HERE
Leftists Are Angrier About Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Than Charlie Kirk’s Assassination:
Failed late-night television “comic” Jimmy Kimmel got yanked from the air Wednesday night for spreading offensive propaganda about Charlie Kirk’s assassination — and predictably, leftists are having a full-blown meltdown.
In the hours since ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its broadcasting schedule indefinitely, the Democrat Party’s biggest apparatchiks have rushed to express their collective outrage at a private entity punishing its talentless employee for his morally repulsive behavior.
Acting as if he were some teenage TikToker, CNN host Jake Tapper sat down and recorded a video in sweats to help his viewers “make sense” of Kimmel’s show getting the ax. The infamous Russia collusion hoaxer specifically attempted to cast the cancellation as a “follow the money” scheme involving the Federal Communications Commission, as well as network officials’ desire to appease the Trump administration.
“While there are no doubt people who are legitimately offended by what Kimmel said, and no doubt tensions are high and feelings are fraught, there is also a lot of money to be made and there are also a lot of people who want to endear themselves to the FCC commissioner and President Trump,” Tapper said in reference to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr noticing Kimmel’s lies.
Supposed Hollywood “comedian” Patton Oswalt similarly recorded a temper tantrum-style video in which he said people “can’t just stand up anymore” and have “got to roar up screaming and link arms” against what he claimed is “an ancient evil.”
“I meet people every day, every weekend, doing comedy, and I know, I know, I know this is not what they voted for,” Oswalt said whilst pretending not to be the “West coast elite” he is. --->READ MORE HERE
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