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Also from this article, but I want to remind people of this, too:
This is what Carr thought was "some of the sickest conduct possible":
So, for Brendan Carr, "the sickest conduct possible" refers to comedians making extremely tame jokes about politicians and saying exactly what they were doing. "The sickest conduct possible" is apparently not what the politicians were actually doing, when they were exploiting Kirk's death for their own gains.
You know, personally, when I think of "the sickest conduct possible," I tend to think of other things. Maybe things more similar to assaulting and raping children or sexually assaulting women in a changing room. You know, actually bad things where people get hurt. Not stuff where you're just telling the truth to politicians who are embarrassed by the truth.
Or like Brian Kill-em-all saying ON AIR that homeless people should all just be murdered by lethal injection.
Everyone keeps reposting that monologue quote but completely ignores the part where he just played clips of Trump not seeming to give a damn that Kirk had been murdered.
The FCC chair threatened to kill a merger for Nextstar if they didn't threaten ABC to get Kimmel taken off the air, because he insulted Trump, Nextstar pressured ABC, and ABC capitulated.
This was never about comments Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk, and shame on the entirely of media in this country for framing it that way. This was because Jimmy Kimmel insulted President Donald Trump.
What you're saying is true, but the problem is that the part where Trump doesn't give a shit about Kirk can't be spun. There is nobody who would see Kimmel criticizing Trump for having zero empathy for Kirk, and accept the spin that it was an insult towards Kirk.
On the other hand, the first part can be spun. They say that Kimmel was lying about the assassin's motives which dishonors the memory of Kirk. Of course, Kimmel said no such thing.
In fact, he was saying that MAGA was lying about the assassin's motives. As far as I know, we still haven't heard anything about the killer's motives, so anybody who claims they know the killer's motives, even his parents, are just making shit up.
So, as far as I can tell, Kimmel was doing what MAGA was claiming that they were doing, being respectful towards Kirk, while calling out people who were being disrespectful. And meanwhile, MAGA was doing what they were claiming Kimmel was doing, lying about the shooter's motives. But I won't say that this really dishonors Kirk. He'd have lied, too.