The Audacity of the WaPo

It is pretty fucking rich when the motherfuckers at The Washington Post have the fucking balls to comment on the censoring of Jimmy Kimmel:

I mean, they are so fucking sad about the slippery slope that this is racing down:

On Monday, the predictably left-leaning late-night host opened his show by saying America had hit “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.”

Conservatives reasonably interpreted this as a reference to the implausible theory that Kirk’s killer was a far-right “groyper” rather than some flavor of left-winger. Kimmel’s writers might have been spending too much time in the progressive fever swamps. But Americans don’t need federal regulators to tell them what jokes are funny or what programming to watch. The market can take care of that. It already was in the case of Kimmel, who had seen a decline in ratings and relevance in recent years.

Enter FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who sees things differently. On Wednesday, he suggested on a podcast that ABC affiliates that air Kimmel might lose their FCC licenses. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” Hours later, Kimmel’s show was suspended indefinitely.

While they do mention that this is about Government coercion, they do seem to talk to forked tongues.

Because late last week, they fired their staff Opinion writer, Karen Attiah, because of her writing about firearm violence only slighty tangential to Charlie Kirk's assassination:

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

The Golden Hour by Karen AttiahKaren Attiah

Not that it matters (ok, it does), but Ms. Attiah is a black woman. I mean her race certainly had nothing to do with this. (/s)

Ostensibly she was fired for her commentary on Bluesky about the tragedy of guns, gun violence, and how it is so often angry white men as perpetrators:

My most widely shared thread was not even about activist Charlie Kirk, who was horribly murdered, but about the political assassinations of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog. I pointed to the familiar pattern of America shrugging off gun deaths, and giving compassion for white men who commit and espouse political violence. This cycle has been documented for years. Nothing I said was new or false or disparaging— it is descriptive, and supported by data.

Anyhow, I do recommend reading her post.

Regardless, the fucking cowards at the Washington Post fired one of the few remaining worthy OpEd authors on staff because they were trying to head off any grief from the Trump administration.

And now, they have the audacity to gripe about the precedent of the FCC Chair applying the screws to ABC/Disney to terminate Jimmy Kimmel's show.

What hypocritical wads of fuck.