Shortly after the murder of Charlie Kirk, high-profile Harvard Law School professor (emeritus), Laurence Tribe, posted this BIG Lie: “Kirk’s apparent assassin seems to have been ultra-MAGA, exploding the GOP/MAGA attempt to pin the blame for this tragedy on liberals.” That was parroted by leftist union boss Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who declared, “The right winger who didn’t want Charlie Kirk to speak did what right wingers do and shot him.”

Too bad Harvard can’t fire Tribe for this lie, as he is now retired, but … can it pull his pension? As for Weingarten, her lie speaks volumes about the leftists educators she represents.

Not to be out-dumbed, late-night “comedian” and serial misogynist Jimmy Kimmel, parroted Tribe’s invective assessment, fueling the propagation of this lie on social media. According to Kimmel on Monday, four days after Charlie’s assassination, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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.”

He added: “You can see how hard the president is taking this. … This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

It was abundantly evident to the rest of the world that Kirk’s murderer is an ideological leftist, who manifests gender-confusion pathology, may have ties to a militant “LGBT” group in Salt Lake City, and was further radicalized by the ideology of the so-called “antifa movement” of self-styled “anti-fascist” fascists — now being declared a terrorist organization.

But apparently, Kimmel, in his celebrity bubble, missed the memo.

Consequently, TV media holding company Nexstar, among the nation’s largest network broadcasting groups with more than 200 stations in 116 markets reaching 220 million people, has pulled Kimmel’s show from its ABC affiliates.

According to Nexstar’s broadcasting chief, Andrew Alford: “Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views or values of the local communities in which we are located. Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.”

And Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest of ABC’s affiliate broadcasters, it would also suspend Kimmel’s show, adding they will “not lift the suspension of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ until formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network’s commitment to professionalism and accountability.” They have requested Kimmel apologize.

These suspensions coincided with a badly-timed concern expressed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr: “In some quarters, there’s a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people about the nature … of one of the most significant newsworthy public interest acts that we’ve seen in a long time in what appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into that narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or a Republican-motivated person.”

Carr added, “[Late-night hosts] went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology.” He also thanked Nexstar “for doing the right thing.”

It is not clear if Kimmel will make a comeback on all ABC affiliates, but I hope not.

Departing his studio at El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Los Angeles after the suspension, Kimmel was “absolutely f**king livid.”

Well, it’s not like he was assassinated for expressing his opinion.

Typical of the unhinged leftist Demo reactions, this from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): “It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.”

Of course Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also blew a gasket, protesting: “It is outrageous, it’s a page right out of Xi’s playbook. This is just despicable and disgusting, and against Democratic values. Trump and his allies [are doing what] autocracies do. I am just outraged by it - this is what dictators do. This is what Xi would do. This is what Putin would do.”

Didn’t we just have a conversation about lowering the rhetorical temperature? Wasn’t somebody just incited to assassinate somebody because of leftist hate rhetoric comparing Trump and his supporters to “autocrats,” “dictators,” and tyrants like Xi and Putin?

Kimmel’s displacement comes in the wake of CBS canceling renewal of Stephen Colbert’s platform to spew his leftist garbage.

That was followed by a challenge from Jay Leno to those using their late-night programs as propaganda platforms for the Democrat Party. Leno, the 1992 successor to Johnny Carson as the host of “The Tonight Show,” and the most successful late-night TV funny man since Carson, offered this assessment: “I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be. And I love political humor, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just what happens when people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other. … I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture. … I don’t understand why you would alienate one particular group, you know, or just don’t do it at all.”

Leno is much too kind.

After years of unmitigated bias by the Leftmedia acting as Demo Party publicists, there is a slight but palpable shift underway.

Finally, in due respect, giving Charlie Kirk the last word: “Jimmy Kimmel isn’t funny.”

Update: As noted, Kimmel’s cancelation was just “for the moment” as noted in my followup, “ABC’s Killer Joker and the Real Speech Suppressors.” However, his post suspension boomlet fizzled as his viewership dropped back to his pre-suspension levels, in what has already been a downward trend in his viewership…

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776

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