When President Donald J. Trump was banned by Twitter before Elon Musk bought it, progressives rejoiced.
None of them defended the Commander in Chief’s free speech rights.
“Oh damn! They took away his precious,” joked late-night host Steven Colbert.
“It is so funny to watch Republicans and Trump supporters melt down,” said Democrat influencer Harry Sisson.
When Fox News fired Tucker Carlson, the left cheered.
“Couldn't have happened to a better guy,” said Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Hosts of “The View” even sang.
“Nah, nah, nah, nah! Hey, hey, hey! Goodbye,” shouted the panel.
Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton openly backed using police to silence speech.
“And direct law enforcement to counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable,” said Harris.
“There are Americans who are engaged in the kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or criminally charged would be a better deterrent,” said Clinton.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz piled on.
“I think we need to push back on this. There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech,” said Walz.
Fast forward to this week: ABC temporarily suspended Jimmy Kimmel for falsely claiming Charlie Kirk’s accused assassin was tied to Republicans. He's back on the air this week.
“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it,” said Kimmel.
Now the same left-wing lunatics are wailing that Trump supposedly silenced Kimmel. Suddenly, they discovered the First Amendment.
The hypocrisy is suffocating.
They cheered when Trump was silenced. They laughed when Carlson was fired. But when Kimmel faced consequences, they collapsed in outrage.
ABC was right to temporarily kick Kimmel to the curb and reassess whether or not he should be back. He politicized Kirk’s killing, proving himself a heartless ghoul unworthy of a paycheck.
Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. Kimmel spewed vile lies. ABC had every right to suspend him. They were right to do it.