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ABC’s parent network quietly pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program off the air this week after a firestorm over on-air comments he made following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The decision came after major station groups signaled they would no longer carry the show, and ABC announced the program would be pre-empted indefinitely as the controversy swelled.
Station owners Nexstar and Sinclair publicly refused to run Kimmel’s program, saying his remarks were “offensive and insensitive,” and the pressure from those big owners appears to have been a decisive factor in ABC’s move. Even the Federal Communications Commission chairman weighed in, publicly criticizing Kimmel and warning networks about the consequences of broadcasting misinformation, a federal regulator lecturing private broadcasters in real time.
Kimmel’s monologues included broad insinuations that the accused shooter should be viewed through a MAGA lens and accused conservative audiences of trying to “score political points” from the killing, a claim that many saw as not only irresponsible but demonstrably misleading given early investigative details. The accused, identified as Tyler Robinson, has been described in charging documents and reporting as someone who drifted toward left-leaning views in the period before the attack, making Kimmel’s blanket political smear especially reckless.
President Trump and other conservative voices celebrated the network’s decision, arguing that the entertainer finally faced real consequences for partisan propaganda masquerading as comedy. What happened here is not about silencing comedy; it’s about accountability for public figures who weaponize grief and crime to smear millions of Americans and stoke political division.
Democrats and many in legacy media instantly turned this into a free-speech martyr story, rushing to shield Kimmel while ignoring the thousands of conservative voices that have been de-platformed or smeared for years. That selective outrage is the very definition of hypocrisy: demand consequence for your enemies, cry censorship when consequence is applied to your side. This double standard deserves to be called out plainly by any patriot who cares about fairness rather than partisan cover-ups.
Beyond the hypocrisy, the most dangerous element here is the eagerness of government officials to pile on and threaten broadcasters — a precedent that hands allies of power the ability to decide which speech survives. When the FCC chairman publicly dangled enforcement over content disputes, that wasn’t defending the public interest; it was a warning shot that federal power can be used to shape the media landscape in favor of those running the levers of government.
Americans who value honest debate should demand two things: that entertainers and journalists be held to basic standards of accuracy and decency, and that government officials stop using their offices as cudgels to coerce media companies. Accountability is not censorship; weaponized regulation is. If conservatives are tired of being lied about and silenced, now is the moment to stand firm for principled free speech and equal consequences for all.
