The Morning Briefing: Delicate Dems Are Struggling in a World of Sudden Consequences

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A lot of people on the Left have been getting hit with generous doses of comeuppance in recent days. They're all quite shocked, because what's gotten them in hot water is the same behavior they'd been lauded and, in most cases, paid for up until now. The media types who have run into trouble for awful takes on the assassination of Charlie Kirk have yet to grasp the import of his death. That's why they all think that they can get away with the business-as-usual ignorant and offensive hot takes that they've made their brands.

Execrable bottom feeder Jimmy Kimmel is the latest to find out that his sewer-hearted word barfing isn't appreciated. This is from Catherine:

ABC propagandist and full-time moron Jimmy Kimmel is finding out that laughing about political assassination is a poor career move.
Nexstar Media Group, Inc., an ABC News affiliate network, announced on Wednesday that its owned and partner television stations would “preempt” Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show.” It subsequently transpired that ABC’s owner, Disney, had itself indefinitely suspended Kimmel. The late-night host shocked many Americans by lying about Charlie Kirk’s accused killer and mocking Donald Trump‘s efforts to honor Kirk.

Much like with the cancelation of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the announcement has kicked off a rash of ridiculously misplaced blame. Predictably, most disgruntled lefties are conflating the two, which have nothing in common save the fact that they're both late-night hosts who are suffering from advanced cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Colbert's show was canceled because his show was hemorrhaging cash and Kimmel has merely been suspended. In fact, a lot of the people who have reported as being "fired" have only been suspended. Suspension is a kinda/sorta punishment that, in cases like this, is just a way to hide the problem and tone down a public relations disaster. The people being suspended understand that.

Everything about the lefty reaction to the Kimmel news has been predictably brain-dead. As my RedState colleague Joe Cunningham wrote, the crowd that's been caterwauling about "misinformation" for years is upset that one of their own has been chastised for spreading misinformation.

This isn't the free speech issue that people are making it out to be. Contrary to popular belief, people don't have the right to say whatever they want to at work. If anyone doesn't believe me, I suggest going into work, start raining f-bombs down on everyone, and see how that works out. As a comedian and a writer, I place a higher premium on the right to express myself than most. Still, I know I can't say or write whatever I want all the time. Trust me, what I would like to write about the evil people we've found out about in the last week and what I have written are very different.

Jimmy Kimmel is an employee. Donald Trump didn't suspend him, his employers did. As a matter of fact, ABC doled out harsher punishments than a suspension on top talent before:

all the communists who demanded that @ABC fire @therealroseanne and then celebrated her cancellation are now whining about free speech
— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) September 18, 2025

Roseanne was nuked from the show that bore her name and that she made into a massive hit for ABC over one tweet. Kimmel has done nothing but disparage President Trump night after night for almost a decade. Yeah, this isn't political retaliation, it's an employer that both understands that we are in the midst of cultural sea change and is concerned with the bottom line. An employer that has grown tired of an unruly employee's shtick.

This is all about garden variety consequences, something that people on the Left are almost completely unfamiliar with. Maybe they'll learn something from all of this. I'm a betting man and I don't like the odds on that one, though.

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