Mahmoud Khalil speaking after a documentary screening in Washington on Sept. 17, 2025. Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images
Eoin Higgins is the author of “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voice on the Left.”
When ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday for comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, outrage poured out of all corners of the liberal body politic. It was an example of “government silencing dissenting voices,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said . Pod Save America’s Tommy Vietor called it “a wild overreaction.” If you fall for it, according to commentator Hasan Piker, “you’re an easily tricked adult and a fucking loser.”
In light of threats from Trump’s Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, ABC’s move to crush Ki