{"id":2490902,"date":"2025-09-25T08:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-are-lying-about-protecting-kimmel-over-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:12:08","slug":"democrats-are-lying-about-protecting-kimmel-over-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-are-lying-about-protecting-kimmel-over-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Are Lying About Protecting Kimmel Over &#8216;Free Speech&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-are-lying-about-protecting-kimmel-over-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2490902&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the reaction of Democrats to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel from ABC following a controversial and inaccurate monologue about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s murder. While Kimmel returned to air after a brief suspension and a weak apology from Disney, many ABC affiliates continue to refuse airing his show. The article criticizes Democrats for accusing FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of attacking free speech when he questioned ABC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/complaints-allege-abc-broke-broadcast-donation-rules-in-debate\/\" title=\"Complaints Allege ... Broke Broadcast, Donation Rules In Debate\">public interest obligations<\/a>, highlighting that private advertisers and affiliates actually pressured Disney to act. It points out Democrats&#8217; history of using the FCC to target conservative media and accuses them of hypocrisy, noting their close political and financial ties to Kimmel. The piece also draws attention to incidents of violence and threats against media outlets, arguing that real Frist Amendment threats come from such attacks rather than regulatory oversight. It concludes by urging Democrats to address domestic left-wing violence rather of criticizing the FCC chairman.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats are desperate to maintain their grip on the levers of cultural power, starting with the nation&rsquo;s television networks. They went into absolute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/19\/jimmy-kimmel-fcc-democrats-congress-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meltdown<\/a> as their friend Jimmy Kimmel, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/biden-fundraiser-los-angeles-democratic-party-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a> the biggest fundraiser in Democratic Party history a year ago, endured a short suspension following a callous and intentionally inaccurate monologue about Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s murder. Kimmel returned to the air on Tuesday after a pathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/arts\/read-abcs-full-statement-on-reinstating-jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">non-apology<\/a> from Disney (the ABC network&rsquo;s corporate parent), though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/23\/business\/media\/jimmy-kimmel-nexstar-sinclair-boycott.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many<\/a> ABC affiliates still refuse to carry the program.<\/p>\n<p>When Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr raised the question last week whether that kind of programming is compatible with ABC&rsquo;s public interest obligations, Democrats went into <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5511478-democrats-kimmel-suspension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uproar<\/a> at his supposed attack on free speech. Never mind that it was private companies &mdash; advertisers and affiliates &mdash; who put the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/18\/business\/media\/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meaningful<\/a> pressure on Disney, and Disney itself that made the ultimate call to take Kimmel down. <\/p>\n<p>Their distortion as to the real record of what happened (set forth quite <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrendanCarrFCC\/status\/1970466563271623139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clearly<\/a> by Chairman Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrendanCarrFCC\/status\/1970183350733410786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">himself<\/a> this week) won&rsquo;t stand in the way of their talking points any more than their own record of using the FCC to target conservatives when they were in power.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, for instance, is the ranking Democrat on the committee with jurisdiction over the FCC. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantwell.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cantwell-leads-commerce-committee-democrats-in-demanding-fcc-chairman-carr-testify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> Carr of an &ldquo;unprecedented attack on the First Amendment,&rdquo; saying that his &ldquo;bullying tactics are offensive to the First Amendment.&rdquo; She must have forgotten leading a <a href=\"http:\/\/cantwell.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/04112018%20Sinclair%20News%20Distortion%20Letter%20w%20Signatures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> from a dozen Senate Democrats in 2018 to Carr&rsquo;s predecessor asking the commission to investigate Sinclair Broadcasting for &ldquo;deliberately distorting news by staging, slanting, or falsifying information.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&rsquo;s what Kimmel did by presenting a monologue that was blatantly false in its characterization of a key fact about Kirk&rsquo;s shooter, claiming he was a right-wing zealot when government officials <a href=\"https:\/\/thedesk.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-09-18-CAR-Complaint-KABC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had<\/a> several days earlier confirmed he was motivated by a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >left-wing ideology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the top Democrats on the House Energy &amp; Commerce Committee, that chamber&rsquo;s committee of jurisdiction, have called for an inspector general investigation into Carr, <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/ec-democratic-leaders-call-ig-investigation-fcc-chairman-brendan-carr-amid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charging<\/a> that his comments on Kimmel were an &ldquo;abuse of authority&rdquo; and a &ldquo;transparent act of illegal and unconstitutional censorship.&rdquo; In 2018, House Energy &amp; Commerce Democrats killed a Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/buddycarter.house.gov\/news\/email\/show.aspx?ID=Z5XYJLJCVZMH3SKW22OSRDQE7Y%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">effort<\/a> to hold an inquiry after two Democrats on the committee, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/nation-world\/democrats-turn-up-the-heat-on-cable-news-providers-over-fox-news-unfounded-fraud-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to cable companies pressuring them to drop Fox, Newsmax, and One America News for &ldquo;misinformation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, another of the House Energy &amp; Commerce Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepDarrenSoto\/status\/1383102605753208838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter in 2021, &ldquo;Enough is enough. We can no longer allow conservative media to lead Spanish-language misinformation campaigns on Florida&rsquo;s Latino communities. It&rsquo;s time for the FCC to intervene.&rdquo; He was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hispanic-caucus-members-pressure-fcc-scrutinize-miami-radio-station-sale-1583890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign<\/a> by Democrats to stop a conservative-leaning businessman from owning a Miami-area radio station; the transaction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideradio.com\/free\/controversial-miami-am-sale-dismissed-by-fcc\/article_3990b132-bc89-11ec-a3f5-27851b0b727b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never<\/a> went through.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on &mdash; the Baltimore Democrat state&rsquo;s attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/baltimore\/2021\/05\/baltimore-states-attorney-complains-to-fcc-about-tv-stations-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asking<\/a> for an investigation into a local Sinclair station; the Fox Philadelphia station <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/fox-faces-scrutiny-from-the-fcc-daigon-230907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subject<\/a> to an unprecedented license review because of its shared ownership with Fox News Channel &mdash; but the point is obvious: Democrats have exactly zero credibility when attacking Chairman Carr for supposedly politicizing the FCC.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s doubly so because so many of these same Democrats have been guests on Kimmel&rsquo;s show or recipients of his political largesse. California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DOzrW-5gGib\/\">wrote<\/a> on Instagram, &ldquo;The attack on Jimmy Kimmel is yet another page in the dictator&rsquo;s playbook.&rdquo; Schiff has <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1UkTGT6OEPTy7YlaNCDypqwRELVs97hjZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a> over $20,000 in campaign contributions from Kimmel and has twice been a guest on his show.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel&rsquo;s given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=james+kimmel&amp;cycle=&amp;state=CA&amp;zip=&amp;employ=&amp;occupation=&amp;jurisdiction=&amp;cand=&amp;type=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly<\/a> $200,000 in personal donations to Democrats, sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/abcs-kimmel-fails-disclose-fundraising-harris-campaign-friendly-walz-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emails<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/politics\/jimmy-kimmel-reveals-details-of-star-studded-biden-campaign-fundraiser-coming-to-l-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">texts<\/a> fundraising for their campaigns, <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-campaigns-nevada-senator-jacky-rosen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a> rallies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2022\/11\/04\/jimmy-kimmel-cuts-ad-for-cortez-masto-in-nevada-after-acknowledging-his-political-bits-have-dented-his-viewership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appeared<\/a> in TV spots. No wonder they&rsquo;re beside themselves that their buddy can no longer use the airwaves night after night to promote them and attack their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The real attacks on press freedom since Kirk&rsquo;s death <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/utah-man-arrested-after-explosive-device-found-news\/story?id=125564512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started<\/a> with a bomb that thankfully failed to ignite after being placed under a Fox affiliate&rsquo;s truck in Utah. They continued when a former senior official from the California teachers union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/anti-trump-shooter-fired-3-210341904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired three<\/a> shots into an ABC affiliate in Sacramento. Sinclair Broadcasting has since <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/22\/media\/charlie-kirk-tribute-scrapped-by-sinclair-after-local-tv-giant-got-threats-against-its-abc-stations-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disclosed<\/a> that many of its ABC affiliates received threats of violent reprisals for its role in pressuring Disney to take Kimmel off the air, leading it to cancel a planned tribute to Kirk for fear of triggering attacks on its employees and properties.<\/p>\n<p>The First Amendment is actually under assault when a speaker on a college campus is gunned down or when television stations are shot up based on their programming choices. Democrats should focus on addressing the reality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-we-do-need-songs-like-jason-aldeans\/\" title=\"We need songs like Jason Aldean&#039;s.\">left-wing domestic terrorism<\/a> within their own base rather than posing for holy pictures attacking Chairman Carr, especially when their comments reek of rank hypocrisy for anyone who checks the record of the last decade.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Daniel Suhr is president of the Center for American Rights, a nonprofit law firm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats panic as Jimmy Kimmel faces suspension over false monologue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4044,"featured_media":2490903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vice_President_Kamala_Harris_with_Jimmy_Kimmel_June_4_2024-01.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[3685,32311,43710,6943,5894],"class_list":["post-2490902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-free-speech","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-lying","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vice_President_Kamala_Harris_with_Jimmy_Kimmel_June_4_2024-01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490906,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490902\/revisions\/2490906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}