As the left-wing media wallowed in their self-absorbed censorship fantasy, MSNBC continued to reaffirm its commitment to being the worst offender. At the end of an exhaustingly boring week, Ana Cabrera Reports decided to add a little pizzazz to Friday morning by blatantly lying about what “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel’s possibly famous last words on ABC actually meant.
In what should have been an easy whine session about the FCC and President Trump, former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy boldly spoke the opposite of the truth: “Look at what Jimmy Kimmel just—we haven’t even talked about what he said. He didn’t say anything incorrect.”
This is what Kimmel said verbatim: “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 score political points from it.”
One didn’t even need a single citation to prove how just how fallacious and moronic Darcy’s defense of the late night comedian was. But here’s one anyways.
Host Ana Cabrera interjected by playing stupid: “Well, it was hard to understand exactly what he meant when he was talking about the ‘MAGA gang’ and ‘one of their own.’”
What, exactly, was so hard to understand about what Kimmel said? There was no way to twist what Kimmel said other than brazenly lying. Kimmel portrayed suspect Tyler Robinson as part of the right wing, which, as everyone knew, was not true. Why would a Trump fan shoot Kirk?
If there was another way to interpret it, surely ABC and Kimmel’s army of lefty sympathizers would point that out. Instead, they had to resort to calling the suspension an attack on the First Amendment.
Darcy doubled-down on the unfortunate and completely unnecessary pit-stop at liar town: “Sure. But he didn’t say anything incorrect.”
The unrelenting right-wing critic then shifted towards bashing on Fox News, his usual hate object:
DARCY: I mean, just last week we had a Fox host call for the euthanization of millions of homeless people, and that person’s still on the air and apologized for about, like, 10 seconds on a weekend show.
CABRERA: Yeah, there's been no blowback from this administration.
This was in reference to Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade. On September 10, in a discussion about the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska and how people on buses and trains have to deal with potentially violent mentally ill people who refuse any treatment, he blurted out "involuntary lethal injection...Just kill 'em." His subsequent apology for what he confessed were "extremely callous" remarks seems to have satiated the right, but not the left.
But Darcy had to admit, in terms of FCC action, “I mean, that's a cable channel, so it's a little different.”
Trump may hate liberal cable news just as much as those on the three letter networks, but they can’t simply be pulled off the air because he doesn’t like them.
Darcy recounted Fox’s defamation suit of Dominion and the FCC dismissing a license case as proof that’s not what’s happening now. He finished with a total killer: “These free speech absolutists are actually, at the end of the day, censorship tyrants.”
The true irony was that Cabrera and Darcy acted out in real time the reasons why Trump hated the left-wing media so much: dishonesty and constant complaining about the right. Maybe it’s time to switch it up a bit, MSNBC.
The transcript is below.
MSNBC’S Ana Cabrera Reports
September 19, 2025
10:13:54 a.m. EasternANA CABRERA: Oliver, [FCC chairman Brendan] Carr keeps citing public interest and news distortion as justification for some of these moves and the pressure that they’re putting on. Your thoughts about that.
OLIVER DARCY: It’s ridiculous. I mean, it’s patently ridiculous. Look at what Jimmy Kimmel just—we haven’t even talked about what he said. He didn’t say anything incorrect. He might have—
CABRERA: Well, it was hard to understand exactly what he meant when he was talking about the “MAGA gang” and “one of their own.”
DARCY: Sure. But he didn’t say anything incorrect. I mean, just last week we had a Fox host call for the euthanization of millions of homeless people, and that person’s still on the air and apologized for about, like, 10 seconds on a weekend show.
CABRERA: Yeah, there's been no blowback from this administration.
DARCY: Yeah, no blowback from the administration, no blowback from these people that talk about the public interest. I mean, that's a cable channel, so it's a little different. But the broader point is, this is all targeting Donald Trump's critics. That's exactly what they're doing.
In fact, one of the cases with the FCC was about a Fox station and whether they should have been allowed to have that license, given all the lies that Rupert Murdoch aired during the 2020 election. And that's—we know about this because the Dominion case. These senior executives at Fox willfully misled their audience. And, you know, there was no interest in this case from Brendon Carr. And actually, the previous FCC chairman dismissed that case.
And so that was actually an interesting case, because maybe you could say, “Should Rupert Murdoch have a station, given it's supposed to be in the public interest, if he's willfully lying to his audience and using a company to lie and mislead the American people?”
There's nothing like that in this case. And there's nothing like that in all the cases, really, that Brendon Carr is pursuing against media companies. He’s going after Donald Trump’s critics to silence them. And I think we should be very clear about that. These free speech absolutists are actually, at the end of the day, censorship tyrants.
