The veteran late-night comic, made several remarks about the reaction to the conservative activist's assassination last week on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' Monday and Tuesday nights, including that ''many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.''
And that is a bottom line truth.
[...] President Donald Trump celebrated ABC's move on the social media site Truth Social, writing: ''Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.''
Earlier in the day, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel's comments ''truly sick'' and said his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation. He said the comic appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that Kirk's assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.
There is truth to the last sentence from the AP's quoted reporting below, with "might have" not being a statement of fact but of possibility, but a blame game over a whack-job head-case problematic Utah youth is ugly and wrong. Wrong both ways (attributing either a right or left wing motive) and wholly off base to say it was other than hostile animus specifically against Kirk. The kid registered to vote and for two electionrs didn't. Read the politics that single fact shouts out. It seems Tyler Robinson was apolitical but against Kirk's hate messaging. Authorities hold evidence to that effect, details have been published, and young Tyler did not have roots of any deep political kind. No trail of email or messaging against Trump and JD, but solely seeing Kirk as a hate filled provocateur. (Which Crabgrass agrees is a true opinion of Kirk.)
Research it. The AP item continues:
During his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel suggested Kirk's alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican. ''The MAGA Gang (is) 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,'' Kimmel said. ''In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.''
''This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,'' Carr said on the Benny Johnson podcast. ''We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.''
Benny Johnson is a rightwing flak. Going on that podcast is rightwing red flag waving at us. AND Trump and his lackeys are dancing on Kirk's grave, while blithely ignoring Kirk's repeated strong feelings, publicly expressed, about releasing all the Epstein evidence. All! One unstable trigger-pulling Mormon youth from a gun-love rightwing very Christian family is being wrongly called a leftist ideologue (rather than a misguided soul) by every MAGA talking head top down, when he went against a strong family ultra-conservative outlook in gunning down Kirk. What you really have: A kid from the gamer culture, with a trans female lover, bonded to a shoot 'em up diet of games conditioning a pliant mind.
Meanwhile, that regulator, Carr, is bloviating a mobster-like "cave in, bow and kiss the Godfather's hand, or feel hurt" threat.
Recall, Project 2025 head pusher, Kevin Roberts, with Heritage Foundation's similar theme and threat:
The Heritage Foundation and its president, Kevin Roberts, are facing blowback in the wake of his comment about an ongoing second American revolution that will “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
President Biden’s campaign jumped on the comment, with a spokesperson saying it shows that former President Trump’s allies are “dreaming of a violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America.” Commentators ranging from former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) to MSNBC hosts and guests reacted with alarm.
And in the wake of the comment, though without mentioning it, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 — an initiative led by the conservative think tank that aims to provide a conservative policy blueprint for the next Republican administration and that has also ignited political firestorms.
Heritage and Roberts, though, are standing by the comment, dismissing the criticism as being in bad faith.
It is entirely hard to avoid the mental image of the mobster telling the deli owner you can pay me for protection or pay more for broken windows and damage. The administration's "regulatory hurt" threats are difficult, to say the least. And Trump is what else but the Godfather of his administration
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BOTTOM LINE: Kimmel told the basic truth that Trump and crowd were dancing on the grave, ("making hay while the sun shines" if you prefer), yet regulator Brenden Carr is flexing a mobster-like threat of do as we say or face a financial harm. PROVE ME WRONG.
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It is hard to leave it there. The misgivings go deep. The gist of Crabgrass feeling is Trump is bent on a strong-arm presidency for Trump 47, JD onboard, and that's galling to a long-grounded love of freedom and liberty being American. Free people don't like being strong-armed. And when we get strong arming after strong arming, what is the message and are we free? And if not, what is going on, top down?
Brazil has had coups and strong man authority. They have thus suitably handled Bolsanaro. We have had one revolution and a civil war, but both a long time ago. We don't like being pushed around by a failed businessman, TV actor. Ease up, Trump, is the general feeling with uneasiness. Be Presidential if you know how. No Kings.