No, Trump's FCC is not going after free speech — but the left has been stifling open debate for years

Free speech is dead in America — thanks to Brendan Carr , the overzealous top cop at the Federal Communications Commission.

That, at least, is the hyperventilating and dubious claim from critics who are aghast that the FCC’s chairman had the temerity to threaten Disney and its ABC network to discipline — maybe even fire — Jimmy Kimmel over his absurd, distasteful and above all false commentary on the Charlie Kirk assassination.

The First Amendment supposedly protects all sorts of speech — even the claptrap uttered by the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” who breezily asserted that the “MAGA gang” was looking to capitalize on Kirk’s assassination by making the killer out to be “anything other than one of them.”

The killer, of course, is a trans-obsessed leftist lunatic, which Kimmel should