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| W. H. Bernstein |
I haven't ever watched his show, and based on comments I've seen I doubt I'd think it's funny.
It's all irrelevant.
The fact is he made an assertion about Charlie Kirk's assassin that was factually questionable. Because of that the FCC Chair went to the parent company, which has a merger pending and needs FCC approval, and told them to do something. Kimmel was not fired, which was probably a contractual issue, but suspended indefinitely.
Those are the facts here.
So we have a government pressuring a company to do its bidding and censor someone they didnt like.
People cheering this are slow to grasp we are in the grips of a totalitarian regime. Not fully. Not the end stage. But the beginning stages of one, and that isnt any hyperbole.
The first rule of any totalitarian regime is the Leader is never wrong.
Has anyone seen any of the people around Trump say he was mistaken, he misspoke, or walked back anything he's said? No. I haven't. And you won't. Because the Leader is never wrong.
So, you might cheer censoring someone you don't like. That's how such regimes operate, by targeting the unpopular first. But unless you're prepared to commit 100% to the regime, you'll be its enemy before long.
Think Trump is wrong on his Intel policy? Enemy.
Think Trump shouldn't threaten companies' broadcast licenses? Enemy.
Think Trump misspoke when he said food prices were down since he took office (simply a matter of fact)? Enemy.
The end of such regimes is ugly, with its leaders executed or jailed, its low level supporters shunned, and its collaborators treated like the woman in the picture.
Step up now. Protest now. Defend the Constitution and freedom now.
Bill Bernstein, formerly of Nashville where he was owner of Eastside Gun Shop, now lives in Sumter, South Carolina. He is a scholar with a BA degree from Vanderbilt University and degrees in Classics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UNC-Chapel Hill, and University of Pennsylvania.
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