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Leftist Hysteria

“This is a red line that has been crossed for our industry, for the First Amendment, for the right of people to speak. There was nothing hateful about what was said, and even hateful speech is protected.” —CNN’s Van Jones on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension (Charlie Kirk was killed for his speech last week.)

Braying Jenny

“Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal.” —Jasmine Crockett

Non Compos Mentis

“Jails, and incarceration, and law enforcement is a SICKNESS that has not led to safe communities.” —Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

“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.” —Harry Sisson on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, NOT on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was killed for his speech

“It should shake every American that the president of the United States is out there firing comedians who make fun of him.” —Rep. Eric Swalwell on Jimmy Kimmel

Fact Check: False

“We need no reminding of the importance of free speech in this country.” —Prime Minister Kier Starmer, whose country arrests people for praying silently

The BIG lie

“Those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views.” —Barack Obama, insisting Trump is to blame for Kirk’s assassination

“Kirk’s apparent assassin seems to have been ultra-MAGA, exploding the GOP/MAGA attempt to pin the blame for this tragedy on liberals.” —Harvard Law Prof emeritus, Laurence Tribe

Behind the Curtain

“Let’s be clear: No progressive member of Congress, or union boss, or assistant professor of anthropology anywhere ever told anyone to go ahead and shoot Charlie Kirk or Donald Trump or anyone else. But the whole point is that they didn’t have to say the quiet part out loud. All they had to do is construct a society thick with brainwashed young men and women who hate themselves, hate the bodies they were born into, hate their nation and their faith and their families, and take directions from a top-down political infrastructure that instructs them what to think and when. It’s precisely the sort of environment that easily breeds shooters.” —Liel Leibovitz

Troll Master

“Why won’t Republicans get with the program and stop being so upset about people shooting them for saying things that Democrats and Democrat-affiliated mutants don’t like? The Republicans are just not being good sports about this.” —Kurt Schlichter

The Bottom Line

“Political violence in America is almost exclusively left-wing violence, and the left in America needs to address it.” —Senator Tom Cotton

We Are Not the Same

“There’s a stark contrast between the peaceful prayer vigils honoring Charlie Kirk and the horrific violence of the BLM riots in 2020. Violence that had the support of the institutional left.” —Tom Cotton

The Writing Was on the Wall

“[Kimmel] was long past his sell date, and the fact that he couldn’t realize that and was going down this road of partisan hackery, being unfunny and demonizing half the country, that’s wild.” —Scott Jennings

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Everyone, please congratulate Marco Rubio, the new host of ABC’s late-night show!” —Vice President JD Vance

Re: Jimmy Kimmel

“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.” —Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr

“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.” —Nexstar’s broadcasting chief, Andrew Alford

“Departing his studio … after the suspension, Kimmel was ‘absolutely f**king livid.’ Well, it’s not like he was assassinated for expressing his opinion.” —Mark Alexander

“Jimmy Kimmel isn’t funny” —Charlie Kirk in 2017

Dezinformatsiya

“The press is trying to soften the public image of a man who put a bullet through Kirk’s neck.” —Laura Hollis