Media’s Appeal To ‘Free Speech’ Over Jimmy Kimmel Is Fake

Panel after panel Wednesday night on CNN pretended to have a debate over “free speech,” with every anchor and Democrat talking head asking whichever present right-winger or Republican guest why the principle didn’t apply to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, going forward, they can miss me with the “free speech” and other appeals to American principles that I and everyone else know they only fake concern for when their money and power are threatened.

ABC announced Wednesday evening it was yanking Kimmel’s late-night talk therapy sessions — known by some as Jimmy Kimmel Live! — for an indefinite period from the airwaves. That move came after Kimmel delivered what he intended to be a comedic monologue centered on the public execution of Charlie Kirk, an innocent man, less than a week prior. It also came after, as Democrats on CNN hysterically repeated over and over, the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said on a podcast in relation to that monologue that TV stations relying on broadcast licenses should recommit themselves to the public interest, as required by existing law, or otherwise potentially face government action.

Because Carr, a Trump appointee, suggested his agencies might do their job and ensure compliance with public broadcasting rules, Democrats are calling the Kimmel suspension a violation of the First Amendment. There’s no reason to take them seriously for it. That party has done nothing in the past five years to hint it cares about the Bill of Rights or any other American ideal. They don’t. It’s the opposite.

Unless it’s to watch pornography, consume recreational drugs, or get an abortion, Democrats hate individual freedoms, including and especially free speech. They cheer government-led censorship on science, health, elections, and foreign affairs. So we know their appeals to the First Amendment are fraudulent. If they weren’t, they would be demanding answers from ABC for its own, voluntary decision to sideline its nightly TV host. And if that answer were, “Because we’ve been unlawfully intimidated by the government,” then they should file a dozen lawsuits against the administration immediately.

But they’re not demanding answers from ABC, at least not to the degree that they’re screaming about Brendan Carr. There are no lawsuits, though we might expect Kimmel to possibly sue his employer in some capacity, which would be a workplace dispute, not a First Amendment case against the government.

This is playing out the way it is because the left’s priority isn’t free speech. It’s money and influence. Kimmel, in more ways than one, threatened his employer’s bottom line when he made not only offensive but also untrue remarks in his monologue. He’s also, like his peers in the media (both news and entertainment), a Democrat. In his suspension, Democrats lose some clout.

There’s no American principle Democrats are committed to upholding. Free speech is among the last of them.