PARIS — Late-night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is guilty of wrong-speak about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination. What he said doesn’t even matter. Nor should it, frankly. At least not inside a free speech zone.

But of course, that era is light years in the rearview mirror. These days, every offhand remark gets treated like the Cuban Missile Crisis — especially once it lands on the internet, where outrage is monetized. And that’s exactly where clips of Kimmel’s remarks ended up. Suddenly, they morphed into a political football being tossed around between two factions.

Enter US President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Brendan Carr, to grab that ball and run with it like the star quarterback in an ideological Super Bowl.

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