Low-rated unfunny clown Jimmy Kimmel has been uncanceled, thanks to an outcry from elites who support his right to use public airwaves to broadcast lies about terrorism and political assassination. ABC reversed its decision to cancel Kimmel after he broadcast known falsehoods about Charlie Kirk’s assassin, then refused to correct or apologize for it. The two syndicates of local stations, NexStar and Sinclair, which led the objections to Kimmel, are refusing to air his returning show.
You know what else won’t be broadcast? The tribute to Charlie Kirk that Sinclair Broadcast Group had planned to air in Kimmel’s time slot. Why? Not vague criticism from the head of the FCC, which Trump’s appointee Brandan Carr aimed at Kimmel. That was a grotesque threat to the First Amendment, Leftists and Swamp Republicans agreed. No, Sinclair was responding to leftist terror threats, as the Post Millennial reports:
Sinclair Broadcast Group scrapped its plans to air a tribute to Charlie Kirk after multiple violent threats were directed at local ABC affiliate stations, according to a report from the New York Post. Last week, Sinclair was set to air the special on its affiliate stations but abruptly announced it was pulled and would be available on a YouTube link.
The TV giant, which owns over 40 local ABC affiliate stations, was facing “local threats directed at specific local ABC stations resulting from [the] ABC suspension” of Jimmy Kimmel, a source told the outlet. The revelations come after a suspect also shot up a local ABC affiliate station in California last week.
At the time of pulling the on-air special, Sinclair posted to X, “Tonight, Sinclair will continue to air ABC network programming as scheduled in the late-night time period. The Charlie Kirk special will instead be available on The National News Desk’s YouTube channel, ensuring viewers can continue to enjoy ABC programming while also providing full access to the special online.”
The Left plays hardball while the Right seems addicted to foosball, with senators like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz coming out in Kimmel’s defense — even though public airwaves are operated “in the public interest” and operators are not given free rein under our First Amendment.
But our elites’ victory dance isn’t finished. Now Brandon Carr is being targeted via lawfare for daring to try to push back even a little:
They’re going after Carr’s law license, naturally. Reminder that lawfare is alive and well. pic.twitter.com/7WFssG5tuj
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 23, 2025
Have you learned the lesson the Left is trying to teach? Terrorism works, and even mild, perfectly legal attempts to resist will be punished savagely. To its enormous credit, Sinclair is standing strong, as MSN.com reports:
Sinclair Broadcasting said ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel was insufficient, announcing it will yank “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from its stations until the host apologizes directly to Charlie Kirk’s family and donates to his political activist group.
The Baltimore-based broadcaster, whose group of some 40 ABC local TV affiliates is the nation’s largest, said Kimmel’s on-air remarks about Kirk’s assassination were “inappropriate and deeply insensitive.”
The company vowed not to return Kimmel’s show “until formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network’s commitment to professionalism and accountability.”
How does the Left respond to such a principled request? With a plan by a Democrat senator to destroy Sinclair as a company:
And there it is.
On Kimmel, the Democrats are engaged in nothing more than Projection and Distortion.
Projection because Democrats are the ones that spent years illegally weaponizing government to silence dissent. And it is Democrats that will do it all again—as they are openly… pic.twitter.com/E3XRIvtBOJ
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) September 23, 2025
Where are leftists learning that acts of terror against individuals and corporations aren’t just effective, but morally justified? That would be college:
UC Irvine professor Catherine Liu appears to endorse Luigi Mangione’s assassination of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson. “I want CEOs to be afraid,” Liu said. “Class war is the only war worth fighting.” pic.twitter.com/P6PeDLBOAn
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 23, 2025
Along those lines, one of the men who tried to assassinate Donald Trump has just been convicted, according to MSN:
A jury on Tuesday, Sept. 23, found Ryan Routh guilty of trying to kill Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year.
Routh, 59, was convicted of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, a charge carrying a possible life sentence, as well as assaulting a federal officer and several weapons violations. The verdict was read by Judge Aileen Cannon at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida.
The trial ended just over a year after authorities say Routh perched himself outside the fence of Trump International Golf Club with a rifle on Sept. 15, 2024, and waited over 11 hours for Trump to walk into his line of sight. Prosecutors say the plot was thwarted by a U.S. Secret Service agent who spotted Routh and opened fire, leading him to drop his rifle and flee. Routh was arrested less than an hour later.
For a deeper understanding of how our young people are getting radicalized, see Christopher Rufo’s essay over at City Journal. He writes:
Radical normie terrorism poses a new challenge for law enforcement. As a veteran FBI agent told me, domestic law enforcement has no systematic program to identify, assess, and respond to this kind of online radicalization. The Bureau still relies on old-fashioned methods—processing tips, knocking on doors, interviewing witnesses—and, in most cases, cannot intervene against disturbed individuals until after they strike.
These acts of terror reflect something dark in our nation’s soul. The perpetrators were so dissatisfied with their middle-class lives that they sought to destroy the highest symbols of their society: murdering children in church pews, an attack on God; and murdering a political speaker in cold blood, an attack on the republic.
But hey, let’s not use the power of the government against the Left because we might set a precedent and later on, once they’re in power again, they might wield the State against us. Because the Left hasn’t been doing that at every opportunity, and it has a deep respect for norms, ethics, and precedents.
Trump Can Cut Off the Media’s Blood Supply
When you’re dealing with people dedicated to your own destruction, who don’t blink at political murder and terrorist attacks, and who’ll pervert the law to savage individuals and companies that don’t hew to their line, appeasement isn’t the answer. Don’t search for “common ground” or try to “reason together.” No, enemies like that must simply be defeated by whatever peaceful means come to hand.
President Donald Trump has an economic thermonuclear device he could use against the biased, hateful legacy media. Even as viewership flags and networks cancel hosts like Stephen Colbert all on their own, one lifeline of cash keeps the MSM networks going: ad money from pharmaceutical giants. All those ads for new drugs with names like “Uplyfta” and “Fubar” aren’t really meant to sell the products. (Have you ever in your life gone racing to your doctor with the name of a new drug you learned about while watching Jimmy Kimmel?) No, they’re payoffs to the media designed to stifle criticism of the pharmaceutical industry and ensure that reformers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Dr. Robert Malone are marginalized.
Trump can slash this censorship subsidy and cripple hostile media conglomerates with a single executive order banning pharmaceutical advertising on television in the interests of public health. He has already taken a giant step in this direction, and as The Hill reports, both Big Pharma and legacy media are having panic attacks.
An effort by President Trump’s administration to curb advertising for pharmaceutical drugs on television is posing a potential marketing hurdle for some of the country’s largest drugmakers while threatening a key revenue stream for media companies.
Advertising and pharmaceutical industry experts say an executive order Trump signed this week could pose an existential threat to the business model of both drugmakers and the media companies, which raked in an estimated $5 billion in advertising revenue from pharmaceutical companies in 2024.
