re: ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' off air 'indefintely' over Charlie Kirk comments

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He didn't actually say the kid was MAGA, He said Maga was desperate to show he was anything BUT right-wing

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I think the context matters quite a lot here. Over the weekend the left was convinced the shooter was a MAGA type or at least a far right groyper. The pushback that Kimmel references was MAGA making it very clear that he was a leftist.

MAGA wasn't trying to clear themselves for political points, they were fighting against a very obvious lie.

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The first clause of the quoted passage is just entire surplusage then

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No it isn't. That is the finger pointing portion he refers back to in the second quote.

Good night gentlemen. I will answer your best arguments when in the morning, if I feel inclined.

Don't disappoint me, as you have so far, Really dig deep.

Maybe Jimmy has convinced himself there’s no reality where his side did something wrong or that he has to display any grace whatsoever to Trump or MAGA.

That is a very dangerous way to live one’s life.

These people have fully convinced themselves that they are right and there’s no place for repentance. If for no other reason, they are out of power. And that is unimaginable to some.

They are so hell bent on winning at all costs, that they’ve painted themselves into a corner. Started with Hillary Clinton, calling Trump supporters deplorable and irredeemable. Then Maxine Waters openly calling for (verbal) assaults and confrontations for anyone connected to the Trump administration. The right just sat there and took it. Not wanting to rock the boat.

To date we have had no less than four violent assassination attempts, one successful, from the left against the right. And yet our corporate media talking heads will still phrase this as a “both sides” issue and that somehow it’s Trump, not themselves who needs to lower the temperature.

Playtime is over.

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Because it's a dangerous road to go down

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We’ve been on that road for a good 10 years now. All started by leftists trying to silence people they didn’t agree with.

Hell I sat through DEI and “come together” forums at my office from 2016-2020 where it wasn’t even implied that my position as a conservative was not to be spoken. It was stated that I was to agree or be silent. Otherwise I was getting fired.

Gloves are off. Turntables and stuff.

He’s parroting two talking points pushed by the left

- The false Maga claim
- The political weaponization of the event


His statements didn’t occur in a vacuum and together they’re an obvious implication which you’ve already inadvertently admitted.


You are trolling, I know that so you can say whatever you like but everyone knows what he said.

What does that have to do with your contortion of the actual language we’re discussing?

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Against the backdrop of his political compatriots selling a false narrative that the shooter was not a leftist, he went out and intentionally - and quite clearly - continued to peddle that narrative even after the factual air had cleared and shown that deceptive narrative to be false.

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The timeline speaks for itself here.

Everyone knew he was a leftist
The left tried to pass an obviously fake narrative over the weekend
The right fights back against an obvious lie
Kimmel lies when he says the right is in the wrong for fighting a false narrative

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Kimmel didn’t “literally” say the exact word for word thing, therefore he could’ve meant something else?

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It’s the other way around man. You are ignoring his words and saying that he meant something else. I’m not even fully disagreeing with you, but you cannot at least acknowledge that it’s possible that he meant that he didn’t like that maga folks were using the tragedy as a means to attack the opposition? Again, I’m not saying that is wha the meant, but I’m not going to pretend that the actual words he said mean nothing either.

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Everyone knew he was a leftist The left tried to pass an obviously fake narrative over the weekend The right fights back against an obvious lie Kimmel lies when he says the right is in the wrong for fighting a false narrative

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All the while not even commenting on the appalling behavior of teachers, nurses, doctors and other professionals who should especially be above celebrating domestic terrorism and murder. So it’s totally understandable to be upset with his spineless attack of Trump supporters, who aren’t culpable of anything in what happened and the aftermath.

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