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CNN’s Tapper, Stelter Defend, Mourn Jimmy Kimmel After ABC Suspension
CNN’s The Lead happened to be on-air as word came that ABC had suspended liberal late-night host Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely following conspiratorial and vile remarks Monday mocking President Trump and conservatives for mourning last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk. Before CNN went nearly wall-to-wall with coverage as though there had been a mass shooting, host Jake Tapper and…

CNN Guest: Kirk Suspect Was ‘Love-Torn Child,’ ‘Motivated Emotionally’
On Tuesday’s CNN NewsNight (aka CNN Thunderdome), former TV talk show host Montel Williams channeled ABC’s Matt Gutman from hours earlier in finding a new motive for the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin, which was the suspect — “a love-torn kid” in “probably his first real relationship” — murdered Kirk out of devotion to his trans significant other.

BREAKING: Kimmel Suspended Indefinitely From ABC
ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air after the late night host claimed on Monday that “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 score political points from it.”

Dilanian, O'Leary Reluctant to Attribute Robinson Ideology to Motive
On Tuesday, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced the charges being pressed against suspect Tyler Robinson. During Katy Turs Reports coverage, MSNBC contributors Ken Dilanian and Chris O’Leary were reluctant to connect Robinson’s left-leaning ideology to his motive for allegedly murdering Charlie Kirk.

Brian Stelter: Trump's Suit Against the NY Times Is 'Dangerous' Stuff
On CNN's The Situation Room on Tuesday, Brian Stelter produced the usual litany about how Trump is "silencing" the "independent" media and that's "dangerous."

Hayes: Vance Echoed Anti-Semitism In Denouncing Soros, 'The Nation'
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes used his Tuesday All In show to look back to Monday when Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show after Kirk was brutally assassinated. As Hayes tells it, Vance was echoing anti-Semitic ideas when he criticized an article in The Nation because that outlet is funded by George Soros.

America Is ‘Screwed’: The View Already Back to Using Inciting Rhetoric
The body of conservative activist Charlie Kirk wasn’t even in the ground yet when ABC co-host Joy Behar decided to go back to spewing inciting rhetoric against President Trump and conservatives. During Wednesday’s episode of The View, Behar proclaimed that America was “screwed” and moderator Whoopi Goldberg proclaimed that she didn’t know how long the Constitution would last. And not…

Cruz Confronts Collins for Trying to Obscure Kirk Killer’s Motive
Sen. Ted Cruz brought some much-needed sanity to CNN on Tuesday when he joined The Source host Kaitlan Collins, who insisted that we still do not know why Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin did what he did.

ABC’s Gutman: I Regret Calling Kirk Suspect’s Texts ‘Very Touching’
Early Wednesday morning, ABC chief national correspondent Matt Gutman took to X and not on-air to offer his attempt at apologizing for fawning Tuesday afternoon over text messages between the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination and his trans lover as “lovingly” stated, “very intimate,” and “very touching.” Gutman stated at 6:32 a.m. Eastern the following: “1. Yesterday I tried to…

CNN's All-Democrat Panel Pans Patel for Daring to Disparage Dems
CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish assembled an all-Democrat panel, and, unsurprisingly, they unanimously condemned FBI Director Kash Patel's performance at a Senate hearing.

Kimmel, Colbert Push Dubious Study, Say Violence Is Mostly Right-Wing
CBS’s Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel attacked Vice President JD Vance on their Tuesday shows for claiming “it is a statistical fact” that most of the crazy people in politics today are on the far-left after the murder of Charlie Kirk. The duo claimed to have a study on their side to back up their claims that Vance was spewing “complete bull[bleep],” but that study has an expansive…

Unglued CNN Attacks Jennings for Tying Far-Left Hate to Kirk Murder
Usually one of the more respectful and good-natured hosts in the liberal media, Kasie Hunt’s The Arena on CNN repeatedly descended Tuesday into a leftist struggle session against senior political commentator Scott Jennings, condescendingly telling him he’s “in pain” over the murder of friend Charlie Kirk but nonetheless engaged in “deeply problematic” rhetoric by (correctly) pointing…

Column: The Media Play Dumb on the Liberal Hate of Kirk's Killer
Once the shock of Charlie Kirk’s murder began to wear off, it became easier to notice how today’s “news” media routinely fail to live up to its own pompous prattle about their work. They don’t “hold people accountable,” they don’t “uphold democracy,” and they aren’t “independent” or “objective.” They don’t produce “news” as much as narrative.

PBS: Conservatives Doxxing Kirk Ghouls vs. Citizen Investigators of J6
Saturday’s PBS News Hour accused conservatives of doxxing the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. The criticism came up in a conversation between substitute host/reporter Lisa Desjardins and…