Let’s put the bottom line up front. Brian Kilmeade of Fox News can advocate for the involuntary lethal injection of homeless people and keep his job, but anyone who dares speak a word of critique about the late Charlie Kirk or the investigation into his death is to be silenced.

That is the lesson that Americans across the public sphere learned this week with the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel from his ABC late night talk show. Mind you his remarks said nothing about Kirk, critical or otherwise. He was taking a swipe at the far right for impugning left wing motive into the alleged shooter’s actions before any motive was evident. Now a prudent Kimmel would have just left that attempt at humor or political satire on the cutting room floor knowing how trigger happy the Trump Administration is a

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