Democrats were finally angered this week. No, it was not about the murder of Charlie Kirk, but about the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night comedy show.
Democratic leader Charlie Kirk is taking Airways to condemn the decision to remove Kimmel from the air after spreading disintegration about the alleged killer.
The same leader and pundits who have been for years have fought for censorship in the name of disruptive disintegration, now they are giving great arguments that they ridiculed a few months ago. Once democrats Wrote letters Internet carriers suggest that Fox News, the most popular cable news network, should be removed from the air in the name of disruptive disintegration. This was when the Democrats controlled the White House and targeting the conservatives.
Suddenly, now, disintegration is no longer a legitimate reason to sensor and the alleged government-corporate coalition is a threat to free speech.
After the tragedy in Utah, many people on the left immediately tried to save the responsibility for the murder that Kirk’s killer was actually a pro -Trump. In his show, Kimmel announced that “The Mag Gang” was trying hard to mark this child, who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than them, and they are doing everything they can do to score a political points from it. “
The alleged killers, Tyler Robinson’s distant inspirations were already well known. His family confirmed that he was made fundamentalist with leftist ideology and cited supporter-transgender ideas. It was not even a joke – it was just a false factual claim made by Kimmel on national television. And it came at a time when others were spreading this lie.
Despite the contrast stories, many repeated false claims. For example,Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe postedThis is “Kirk’s obvious killer Ultra-Maga, which is exploding GOP/Maga’s effort to pin the blame on liberals on liberals.” (Previously, tribeClaimedThe October 2023 massacre of Israeli by Hamas was a “Wag-Dog” operation to distract allegations of corruption against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Disintegration made a catch on the Internet and social media. A pole Show off A plurality of Americans feel that Robinson was a conservative.
Call it refusing to kill. This is all anger. Former MSNBC and ESPN host Keith Olbarman wrote After Kimmel’s suspension, “Burn in Hell, Sinklair. With Charlie Kirk.” He said “nothing [Kimmel] Said was untrue. ,
Eagerly, some of these politicians and pundits are claiming that, yet, again, democracy will die if Kimmel is not allowed to spread disintegration. There are reports that Kimmel was refusing to apologize and was planning to double the attacks on conservatives in his next show. With rebellion and potential migration of advertisers by colleagues, Disney’s head, Bob Igar, drawn plugs(By the way, Kimmel’s rating was falling for years, and he had small audiences The colbert showWhich himself was closed due to loss of money).
The hypocrisy was pure comedy. For years, these similar voices demanded individuals censorship, which were understood for disintegration, misinformation and malicious proliferation. The final category was used by the biden administration to “target statements based on facts, but was used out of reference to mislead, loss or manipulation.”
At the same time, he claimed that the corporations were working with the government to maintain this censorship system.
Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-Mas). Runned to a pledgeTo impose new criminal and civic punishment for anyone who spreads disintegration. Now, however, the censorship is unbearable. RabbitTold CNN“We know that there was federal intervention … We saw the government stepping and gave a difficult deception and then we rotated an obedient company around and suspended Mr. Kimmel.” He said that his cooperation with the corporations “actually reduces the entire base of the first amendment.”
Sen Adam Shif (D-Calif.) Called the suspension one of the “most attack attacks on free press in American history”. Shif had earlier demanded thisTwitter suspends an array of usersAnd “reduce the visibility” of blacklisted persons – including a journalist, who opposed opposing ideas. When Elon Musk reduced the sensorship on X, This was the shif that warnedFacebook free speech should not follow their example by restoring security. If the company went to withdraw some wrong information policies or move to roll, Shif threatened legislative action.
This week, Shif is angry with a company’s decision to suspend a host that refused to correct a false story.
For years, I appeared before these similar leaders in Congress as they defended corporate censorship and dismissed allegations of cooperation with the government. I will not cancel Kimmel until his show was beneficial. But I have long said that companies can limit the free speech of employees at work. I do not believe that Kimmel should be censored on social media to spread false information. At the same time, ABC does not need to lose money or viewer because an employee attacks with others, with false claims.
Disney is now accused of killing democracy in the league with Trump. Sen Chris Murphy (de-con) attacked Trump to “try to destroy our democracy” and acted like “disappointing many people”. Rape. Maxwell Frost (D-Flow) used Kimmel’s suspension as evidence that “Fascism is not in the way, it is here.”
Minnesota village. Tim Walz (D) insisted that it was “North Korea-style goods” to spread a host to spread false information about a murder, while Senate Minority Leader Chak Shumar (DN.Y.) stressed that “what will this” do. ” It is a curious spin, because Putin and Kim Jong are the value media figures of the United Nations that spread false information – especially about murders.
Rape. Jamie Ruskin (D-MD) compared Kimmel to Thomas Pine, the author of the Common Sense and “Pennman of the Revolution”.
So Kimmel is now the hero of democracy – he just had to do so that he spread disintegration. This makes the funniest joke that Kimme has never told.
Jonathan Turley George is a Professor of Public Interest Law at the University of Washington. He is the author of the Bestseling Book “.Unavoidable Rights: Free speech at the age of anger,
