US comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show has been yanked off air ‘indefinitely’ after a couple of barbed – but frankly bog-standard – lines about the politics swirling around Charlie Kirk’s killing.
The Disney-owned network ABC has offered little in the way of a proper explanation. From where I’m sitting, the decision reeks of pressure from political powers above.
It looks and feels like punishment. And it makes a mockery of the right’s endless sermon about ‘unlimited’ free speech.
From Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace’s jaw-dropping, baseless lie that Democrats were to blame – made before a suspect had even been apprehended – to Vice President JD Vance insisting left-wing violence is the bigger problem, the hypocrisy is staggering.
Kimmel poked at Donald Trump’s curiously pe