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If you still happened to believe that CBS’s summertime decision to fire Stephen Colbert was anything less than politically motivated, this week’s events should fully erase that doubt. On Wednesday evening, ABC announced that it was “ pre-empting ” Jimmy Kimmel Live! from the air indefinitely, in condemnation of a monologue the late-night host delivered Monday about the right wing’s reactions to Charlie Kirk’s murder . President Donald Trump himself approved of the disciplinary measure, deeming it “ Great News for America ” in tandem with Colbert’s cancellation and also urging NBC to yank Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon off the air. (When Trump celebrated Col

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