A Kimmel Update

At around noon, I updated my article on the far-right reaction to Jimmy Kimmel making a joke, and ABC putting the show on an indeterminate pause.  If anyone read the article before then, I wanted to clarify the change.

In the original version, I'd written that Kimmel's joke was edgy, and had one thing in it that was accurate, but pretty close.  On going back to re-read the joke -- and John Berman on CNN doing a great job pushing back at the excruciatingly unwatchable Scott Jennings to correct the far right's total misinterpretation of Jimmy Kimmel's joke (as well as CNN's Brianna Keilar pushing back on Rep. Barry Moore, MAGOP of Alabama, correcting his total misinterpretation) -- I realized that Jimmy Kimmel's joke was actually spot-on accurate, just not phrased clearly.

This the joke --

"We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize the kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.  In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”'

Jimmy Kimmel did not say that the shooter was MAGA (as the far-right is contending he did) -- but rather that MAGA overreaction before knowing anything at all about the shooter was to do everything possible it could to desperately show that the shooter, whoever he was, WAS NOT "one of them."  And in that effort, make the shooter seem to be far-left.

And given that Trump himself (who had  made a blistering, false attack on the left for the shooting death of Kirk) was later asked on camera how he was doing after the death of his friend and replied that he was doing fine – and immediately began talking about the trucks coming to the White House to build the new ballroom he wants...

...it becomes all the more clear that Jimmy Kimmel had his TV show indeterminately paused for making a joke and point that were 100% accurate.  But the far-right and FCC chairman didn't like the joke, and so, using the power of government to undermine the First Amendment forced ABC to take a cowardly action.