{"id":160831,"date":"2025-09-18T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160831"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:37:44","slug":"the-charlie-kirk-halo-effect-continues-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/the-charlie-kirk-halo-effect-continues-to-expand.html","title":{"rendered":"The Charlie Kirk halo effect continues to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"

First people who said positive, celebratory things about Charlie Kirk’s death were targeted by the Right.<\/p>\n

Then people who noted that Charlie Kirk shouldn’t have been killed, because killing is wrong, but that, besides that, he was an asshole who said terrible things, were targeted.<\/p>\n

Now people who note that Charlie Kirk shouldn’t have been killed, but that the MAGA Right was exploiting his death to (without basis) villify the Left as being responsible for it, were targeted.<\/p>\n

And, in all cases, it was just described as retaliation for “comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.”<\/p>\n

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Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr\u2019s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel<\/div>
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what\u2019s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show \u201cindefinitely\u201d over comments that Kimmel mad\u2026<\/div>
www.techdirt.com\/2025\/09\/17\/cowardly-disney-caves-to-brendan-carrs-bogus-censorial-threats-pulling-jimmy-kimmel\/<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

What sort of awful things did Kimmel say about Charlie Kirk, reprehensibly celebrating his killing as a good thing?<\/p>\n

None. He didn’t do that. He didn’t say anything positive about the killing (he called it murder), and he didn’t even say anything negative about Kirk.<\/p>\n

Here is (for the moment) the video of Kimmel’s monologue that landed him in hot water:<\/p>\n