"During his monologue Monday, ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel built up a joke like so: "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." It was certainly going out on a limb to characterize the shooter as "MAGA" without any information supporting that, and new information we've seen since Monday makes the premise look flat wrong."
"The regime's response to Kimmel's whiffed joke windup, instead of allowing viewer anger to work its way through private action, has been to take a big ol' whack at the First Amendment. The Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, who collects tribute on behalf of Donald Trump from telecom companies with business before the federal government, made a fairly straightforward threat to Disney, ABC's parent compa"
Furloughed federal workers will likely enjoy good weather during next month's government shutdown. Kash Patel attempted to save his job by loudly attacking Democrats. Donald Trump is pursuing plans to transfer TikTok ownership to associates. Ben Mathis-Lilley departed after eleven years to buy a soybean farm and sell crops to the Chinese market. Jimmy Kimmel delivered a late-night joke that characterized a shooter as "MAGA," a characterization that appears unsupported by later information. FCC chairman Brendan Carr, with ties to telecom companies doing business with the federal government, threatened Disney and ABC over the monologue.
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