The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk is still reverberating across America. On Sept. 17, Jimmy Kimmel, the host of ABC’s late-night talk show, became the latest casualty in our post-Kirk world.
The network announced it was suspending Kimmel indefinitely because of his Sept. 15 monologue. “The MAGA gang,” he observed, “[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. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
He continued, referring to President Donald Trump casting blame on left-wing groups for Kirk’s death. “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
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