Back in September, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel got himself suspended for remarks he made about the political identity of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, but on Thursday, he was able to turn that into a Peabody Award for allegedly becoming a free speech martyr.
To recap, Kimmel declared on September 15 that “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.”
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