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Mr. Kimmel faced some criticism for comments he made on Monday about the motives of the man who is accused of killing Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    29 days ago

    The MAGA Gang (is) 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.

    As far as I’ve been able to find, that’s all Kimmel said.

      • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        29 days ago

        And it’s not even “Charlie Kirk comments”, it’s “guy who shot Charlie Kirk comments”.

        He’s not taken off the air for “Charlie Kirk comments”, he’s taken off the air for not licking enough fascist ass. But of course the poor NYT reporters cannot run that as a headline, or they’d suffer the same fate.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      2·
      28 days ago

      I just read a Canadian CBC article that quoted this:

      “In between the finger-pointing, there was, uh, grieving,” said Kimmel.

      “On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level you can see how hard the president is taking this,” he said, before cutting to a clip where Trump responded to reporters asking about how he was doing by pointing to construction going on at the White House. “This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

      which is marginally worse, but again, marginally. And all the FCC chief pointed to was what you quoted.