Mr. Kimmel faced some criticism for comments he made on Monday about the motives of the man who is accused of killing Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist.

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    The MAGA Gang (is) desperately 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.

    As far as I’ve been able to find, that’s all Kimmel said.

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        And it’s not even “Charlie Kirk comments”, it’s “guy who shot Charlie Kirk comments”.

        He’s not taken off the air for “Charlie Kirk comments”, he’s taken off the air for not licking enough fascist ass. But of course the poor NYT reporters cannot run that as a headline, or they’d suffer the same fate.

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    Makes me wonder when John Oliver and Jon Stewart will be pulled.

    Then all that’s left will be SouthPark and I don’t see that being renewed for next season either this way

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    Title should call out “Disney-ABC”, not just ABC. It’s important to connect the dots how few outlets there are and how they are aligned. Christofacist will not be any stretch for Disney, and they have a king background in war propaganda films.

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    The abrupt decision by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel and suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of remarks the host made on his Monday telecast.

    Taken from https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/

    First Amendment

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.