When Comedy Becomes a Crime: Jimmy Kimmel, Charlie Kirk, and the Price of Telling the Truth
When late-night satire threatens the right’s narrative, the punishment is swift, and the silence is the point.
The silence came swiftly.
ABC announced this week that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be indefinitely preempted, following Kimmel’s monologue about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The outrage wasn’t about what he said, but rather about what he exposed.
In a brief, biting segment, Kimmel did what late-night comedians are supposed to do: he cut…
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