Charlie Kirk assassination
The Kimmel Kerfuffle Doesn't Mean the World Is Ending
Ohhhh no! The world is ending! Or so goes the underlying moaning and groaning from the Left as ABC suspends the namesake host of its late night Jimmy Kimmel Live! show.
Acosta: All Kimmel Did Was Condemn MAGA For Politicizing Kirk's Murder
Former CNN anchor and self-appointed guardian of the truth Jim Acosta unleashed several bits of fake news in the early moments of his Thursday podcast as he reacted to ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Most notably, Acosta claimed that all Kimmel did was call out MAGA for politicizing Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Rolling Stone Suddenly Cares About Free Speech
Rolling Stone has come a long way, baby, and not in a good way.
Maher Attacks ABC, Says Kimmel 'Has Every Right To Be Wrong'
HBO’s Bill Maher attacked his former ABC bosses on Friday’s Real Time for suspending his replacement, Jimmy Kimmel. According to Maher, Kimmel was wrong in what he said, but he has a right to say it, and ABC’s suspension means the network stands for “Always Be Caving.” While Maher’s position may seem like a consistent and principled stand in favor of free speech, he got a couple key…
'We're In It': Capehart Announces Authoritarianism Has Arrived
PBS News Hour’s weekly Friday segment with New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart focused exclusively on ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the idea that censorship and authoritarianism are big problems. Brooks took a sort of centrist position where he condemned Kimmel and the late night industry as a whole but denounced the suspension, while…
ABSURD: PolitiFact Won't Check Kimmel's LIE, Tags Hannity as 'False'
The furor over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposed PolitiFact once again as a very partisan outfit – not an “independent fact-checker.” They offered no fact check for Kimmel’s nationally broadcast lie that Kirk's killer was somehow a Trump fan. Instead they threw a "False" rating on Thursday at...Sean Hannity.
New Yorker Claims Moral Equivalence Between Charlie Kirk and Assassin
The New Yorker magazine has faced criticism for alleged bias, particularly in a recent article by Kyle Chayka that controversially links conservative commentator Charlie Kirk with his assassin, Tyler Robinson. The piece argues Kirk's online presence fosters toxic dynamics similar to those that radicalize individuals like Robinson, yet critics claim Chayka's piece unfairly equates Kirk's…
Networks Still Mourn Kimmel, ABC/NBC Skip Reports of Actual Backlash
ABC, CBS, and NBC were still enraged on Friday morning and evening over unfunny late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension from ABC over his vile remarks Monday spreading a conspiracy theory about the Charlie Kirk assassination. And once again, they fiddled with a conspiracy theory of their own that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), local TV conglomerates, and the Trump…
MRC’s David Bozell Sounds Off Over Kimmel Suspension in Fox Column
In a column posted late Friday afternoon over at Fox News Opinion, Media Research Center President David Bozell blasted the flimsy arguments that cancel culture is on the march for those who’ve expressed odious and stomach-churning responses to the September 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Dowd Attacks MSNBC For Firing Him, Laments The Left's Focus On Kimmel
Democrat-turned Republican-turned independent-turned Democrat Matthew Dowd was fired from his MSNBC commentator position for speculating that Charlie Kirk was shot by someone firing their gun in celebration and for saying, “I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that's the environment we're in that, that people just you can'…
MRC Analyst Credited with Kimmel Suspension in New York Times
Following Wednesday’s indefinite suspension of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for malicious comments on Monday about the Charlie Kirk assassination, The New York Times penned an article Friday morning online that credited MRC NewsBusters news analyst Alex Christy for sparking the backlash and suspension with a viral social media post (viewed over 15.5 million times).
Kimmel Ratings Chart Goes Viral to Show ‘Real Reason’ He Was Suspended
A chart showing how Jimmy Kimmel’s late-show ratings had been plummeting prior to his indefinite suspension by ABC has gone viral as social media users suggest that he was pulled for more than just his offensive, false comments regarding the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk.
Meyers, Stewart, Fallon Blast Kimmel's Suspension, Don't Play Remarks
CBS’s Stephen Colbert freaked out on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show at ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel and downplayed his comments that MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” but at least he played the clip. The same could not be said of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and NBC’s…
CNN Guest Invokes Kimmel Suspension Alongside Civil War, WWI Censors
Longtime University of Virginia professor and increasingly far-left kook Larry Sabato surfaced on Thursday afternoon’s CNN News Central and compared this supposedly dark time in America given the timeout ABC placed Jimmy Kimmel in and President Trump’s ripping of the media alongside the Civil War, the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 and censorship during both world wars.
