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Michael Knowles (0:00)
After Charlie Kirk's death, Jimmy Kimmel misled his viewers by telling them based on nothing and in direct contradiction of all available evidence that Charlie was murdered by one of his own political allies.
Unidentified Commentator (0:15)
We hit 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 doing everything they can to, to score political points from it. In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism. But on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this.
Donald Trump (0:40)
My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. May I ask, sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir? I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty.
Unidentified Commentator (1:00)
Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief. Construction, demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four year old mourns.
Michael Knowles (1:16)
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. You get it? Charlie Kirk was assassinated for having open debate. And so, and that is, it's, it's. Is that funny? Trump's reaction is funny. Is. Anyway, the weak punchline is not really the problem here. The problem is that first part when he says, ah, you know those right wingers, they were trying spinning so hard to pretend like Charlie was assassinated by anyone who wasn't one of their own. The shooter engraved far left wing messages on the bullets that he used to kill Charlie Kirk. And then he confessed, allegedly everything that he did to his trans furry boyfriend. Don't think he was a Burkean conservative. It was a lie. It was a lie that Jimmy told his audience. That was a few days ago. As of last night, Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have a job. This is a great move by abc and it follows many other very wise personnel decisions by major corporations this week in response to the many employees across the country who have minimized and even in some cases celebrated the assassination of a young man who only ever tried to talk it out. If the message was not clear already, it should be clear as day to everyone on the left. By now. We have had enough and the consequences will continue until behavior improves. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show, Ilhan Omar has just made the claim that Somalia is preferable to America. Just to show you a little bit about our national confusion on other topics even beyond the recent tragic events. Hold on one second. Right now go to getkickoff.com knowles did you know that roughly 36% of Americans have below average credit scores, which can make borrowing more difficult and expensive? That is where Kickoff can help. 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If you had an employee who mocked the assassination of a political debater merely for stating his opinion and hearing out the other side. If you ran any corporation anywhere in the country and you had an employee who did that it would be the right thing to do to fire that employee for all of the reasons that we've been discussing all week. Because that would be an example of the thought that stops thought. That would be the kind of thing that would obstruct the operation of your business. Because you'd have all of your other employees sitting next to this person in the cubicle wondering if that person were taking the steps to murder them. He would openly celebrate their murder. He would encourage their murder. You can't run a corporation that way. You can't run a hospital in which the nurses are credibly suspected of trying to kill the patients. You can't run a restaurant if the customers think that the servers and the kitchen staff are trying to poison them. It doesn't work. You can't have a country with open debate and the free exchange of ideas when some people in that marketplace of ideas are actively trying to murder the other people. That doesn't expand the marketplace of ideas. That actually restricts it. It undermines the whole thing. So if you ran any other company, you would be wise to fire Jimmy Kimmel just for that. But that's not why Jimmy Kimmel was fired. Jimmy Kimmel was fired for advancing a lie in contravention of all available evidence immediately after a major national trauma and tragedy. And he was not fired because of government pressure. He was fired because of the wise decision of abc, Though that was done in concert with federal regulators looking into the misdeed that Jimmy Kimmel committed. Here we have Brendan Carr, the chairman of the fcc, speaking on Benny Johnson's show.