President Barack Obama once again weighed in on Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel, this time citing a prominent conservative in his appeal for free speech.

Obama recently leveled Donald Trump's administration over what the former president called taking things to "a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.” MAGA immediately melted down over that.

But Obama wasn't done there. Late Thursday night, the ex-president took to X and wrote, "This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents."

Obama then cited a report from The New York Times, called Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel and the Future of Free Speech in America, and added, "First there’s this piece by David French, who devoted much of his legal career to defending the First Amendment rights of conservative writers and scholars." That report is here.

Obama then said, "Second, it’s worth reading this excerpt from Frederick Douglass," and linked to Douglass' piece, A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1860). You can read that here.