Our Constitution’s First Amendment provides that government may not abridge “the freedom of speech, or of the press.” That constitutional right is only as good as the people who practice under its shield and the government that either respects it or wants to tear it down.
Spineless TV executives have again cowered in the face of criticism, and the federal government is actively working to tear it down.
Free speech in America is in peril.
The latest example is late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel . On Monday night, he said this to his national audience of about 2 million people about the shooting of Charlie Kirk, a popular right-wing activist/podcaster: ““The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them an