I am presenting an article from The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson, because it is the way I am thinking right now.
I spent much too much time on X yesterday arguing with mostly leftist idiots (there were a few sincere people making a case against government intervention) about the supposed gestapo-like government activity that resulted in the firing of Jimmy Kimmel. For what it’s worth, I think that maybe it was unwise for FCC’s Carr to make statements that he did at this moment, but it was absolutely legal, within FCC rules that have been upheld repeatedly by the Supreme Court. There was not an attack on the First Amendment.
Jimmy Kimmel LIED about a crime with political intent to poison public opinion. That is clearly against FCC rules. By the time that Carr spoke, ABC affiliates were already pressuring ABC by pulling his show in their markets. His show was taken off the air by his employer, ABC.
ABC is licensed by the FCC as an over the air broadcaster. They are not the same as cable channels or streaming services which are private and paid. ABC, NBC and CBS are regulated by the Federal Government.
Now for the article.
The national conversation we need to have right now is not about free speech.
The conversation we need to have is about the normalization of political violence on the left. We need to be talking about left-wing Antifa/trans terrorists gunning down Christians in broad daylight while Democrats and the corporate press justify it and the online left celebrates it.
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