Hate speech may be nasty and hurtful, but should it be banned?
Our Attorney General may wish to pay a visit to the First Amendment
CENSORSHIP IS A TWO-WAY STREET ... Make no mistake, ABC had every right as a private corporation to suspend - or even to fire - Jimmy Kimmel.
Just as we have the right to never watch ABC again.
Or maybe we'll dump our treasured souvenir Mickey Mouse ears in the trash and never visit Disneyland again.
ABC has exercised its "free speech" and now we can exercise ours.
The disturbing part is that the administration seems to have had a hand in all this, threatening to put out of business anyone who dares to utter a single word of dissent.
Not surprisingly, when President Trump was asked about Kimmel's plight, he claimed that Kimmel "said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk."
Kimmel did no such thing, but as with all the president's lies, his base sucks it up like Pablum and lies become "facts."
You can see Kimmel's remarks from the day after the shooting here:
Kimmel had this to say four days ago:
A DISMISSAL CLOSER TO HOME ... I remember when a local broadcaster was unceremoniously dumped from his regular nightly talk show on Sacramento radio station KFBK, the 50,000-watt flamethrower of the Central Valley that gave birth to Rush Limbaugh.
I remember it well because I was that broadcaster.
I had been on the job for three years, filling the 9 to midnight slot five days a week, solo, trying to throw enough red meat into the airwaves to convince irate listeners to light up the phone board. Some nights I was wildly successful and other nights - especially when the Kings had a home game - I ended up reading the weather forecast 10 or 20 times an hour.