Democratic Party Isolation Is Getting Worse
Michael Barone
We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked.
One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September 2024. The news appeared on page A24 of the print edition of The New York Times.
Very different treatment was accorded to the return of Jimmy Kimmel, the third-highest-rated of the three broadcast network late-night show hosts, from the suspension imposed on him last week.
That action was prompted by Kimmel's statement that "the MAGA gang ... was 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."
Presumably, Kimmel thought he was speaking truth to power, but actually, he was speaking falsehood to people who were eager to believe it. This, of course, doesn't excuse Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr from issuing thuggish threats that may have persuaded ABC to yank Kimmel from the air -- a sharp and shameful contrast from Carr's justified protests at Biden administration speech suppression. The government shouldn't be repressing speech protected by the First Amendment.
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