By Curtis Houck

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You know, by focusing on the censorship aspect and the First Amendment aspect, I think it’s losing sight of what should be the lead. And that’s that Jimmy Kimmel owes the family of Charlie Kirk and his wife, Erika, two small children, an apology. He — what’s he saying, that if you’re a member of MAGA and Charlie is a friend of MAGA, then he had it coming? It just — it’s — in some ways, it’s very, extremely, extremely insensitive. The country’s in a very tough spot right now. Everyone’s walking on egg shells. The First Amendment is not a license to incite hatred and I think that we can start the discussion. Once Jimmy Kimmel apologizes, then they can talk about the business aspects and whether or not he gets back on the schedule and so forth. But there’s got to be a recognition that a terrible thing has happened here and that millions of Americans are grievously hurt by what happened. There is a — Charlie Kirk was beloved by many. And to just trample over it, he’s not even buried yet, for goodness’ sakes. And to make fun of the flags and half-staff and so forth, I just think that we have got to look at it with a notion that the country has to be healed, that we have to work to bring people together, that we need to respect each other. We don’t have to agree, but we have to respect. And I think that the audience has deserted him for a good reason.