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no_hypocrisy

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5. Kimbell was critiquing MAGA, not the shooter.

Reply to rog (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2025, 06:42 AM

Sep 19

And it's accurate.

MAGA *is* diverting attention away from itself and using the shooter as its vehicle. And intentionally using any excuse to silence its critics. Using TSF, who is using the FCC, to use the ABC Corporation to accomplish that goal.

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Re: How J Kimmel's quote is being characterized. I don't understand ... [View all] rog Sep 18 OP

What's the point in parsing his actual words? The fact that they attacks liberals before any facts came out tells you unblock Sep 18 #1

Personally I think Kimmel's statement would not have gotten him fired, this time, if he had said Silent Type Sep 18 #2

Fact Check Coldwater Sep 18 #3

The confusion is that there's two ways of interpreting these words AZJonnie Sep 19 #4

This is what it amounts to. Both sides see what they want in the quote. TheProle Sep 19 #7

Kimbell was critiquing MAGA, not the shooter. no_hypocrisy Sep 19 #5

That's the way I heard it, too. I don't understand ... rog Sep 19 #6