Remember When Democrats Wanted Tucker Carlson Fired to ‘Protect Democracy’?
by Matt Margolis
As soon as news spread that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show had been pulled off the air indefinitely for his spreading false information about Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Democrats rushed to the cameras to express their outrage.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel claimed, despite the fact that it was already well established that the shooter, Tyler Robinson, was a radicalized leftist.
On her CNN program OutFront, Erin Burnett turned to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for comment. Schumer called the suspension “outrageous,” saying, “It’s a page right out of Xi’s playbook. This is just despicable, disgusting and against democratic values. Trump and his allies seem to want to shut down speech that they don’t like to hear. That is not what democracies do. That is what autocracies do.”
He added, “And it doesn’t matter whether you agree with Kimmel or not. He has the right to free speech. And so, it is just outrageous. It is indicative of autocracy. And I am just outraged by it. Again, this is what dictators do. This is what she would do. This is what Putin would do. We are not that country.”