Megyn Kelly reminds America: Jimmy Kimmel wore blackface — yet she was the one canceled



Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension from ABC for his vile comments regarding Charlie Kirk after his passing began a free-speech discussion on the left — but Megyn Kelly isn’t buying it.

“I think I’m in the minority, but I’m totally in favor of what Brendan Carr did last week. 100% in favor,” Kelly tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“They have to feel our pain. Why, whenever we’re in control, do we take the high ground only to get beaten to a pulp again once they’re back in control, and we continue to say, ‘Oh, these are our principles. We’re going to live them in order to make clear to everybody we really hold them,’” Kelly explains.

“And then they just get used against us,” she adds.


Now, people on the left are losing their minds over censorship, big government, and free speech.

“You and I haven’t moved at all on our principles,” she tells Glenn. “We hate lawfare. We hate government censorship. We don’t believe hate speech is problematic. It’s perfectly legal. It’s constitutional. It’s kind of why the First Amendment was invented.”

“However, it’s the left that’s drifted from those principles, not us. And now the question is, how do we wrestle the country back to stasis — back to the old stasis prior to the left losing its mind? And I am really just firmly of the belief now that they must be brought to heel. Again, not with physical violence, but with the same tactics in terms of policy and approach in governing that they use against us,” she explains.

And while Kimmel wasn’t even fired, she can’t think of anyone who deserved the warning more.

“Those tears out on that stage were for him. What a joke. That crying, whiny baby. He has celebrated everyone on the right’s cancellation. He danced on our professional graves, and he has the nerve to want us to feel sorry for him because he had a five-day paid vacation,” Kelly says.

“When I got canceled at NBC for literally asking a question about blackface Halloween costumes ... and why, when I grew up in the 70s and 80s, you could wear those like if you wanted to honor Diana Ross or Michael Jordan and not get canceled, but clearly in, you know, the 2000s, things had changed. And that was my question,” she explains.

“It got me canceled at NBC. Did Jimmy Kimmel at the time come out and say, ‘You know what? This is BS. I’ve got to admit, I wore blackface many times.’ Jimmy did, not me. ‘That I’ve worn it repeatedly as Karl Malone. I wore it as Oprah in a fat suit,’” she continues, noting that Kimmel was openly “mocking black people.”

“He didn’t say a word. He let me twist in the wind. ... Why should any of us feel sorry for him? He’s totally pro the cancellation of anybody whose politics he doesn’t share,” she says, adding, “so I’m thrilled he felt some pain last week.”

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Mollie Hemingway slams Democrat senator for benefiting from 'censorship industrial complex'



Mollie Hemingway, the editor in chief of the Federalist, spoke out against the Biden administration's "censorship industrial complex" before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

In an exchange with Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont, Hemingway pointed out how his party has peddled and directly benefited from measures implemented by former President Joe Biden that censor or otherwise stunt speech that deviates from the political orthodoxy of the day. Welch, however, insisted that the censorship industrial complex is merely an "abstract term."

'You can rely on the censorship industrial complex to do the work for you.'

"The industrial censorship complex is an abstract term that doesn't mean a lot to me, but it conveys a lot of meaning obviously to the many people here," Welch said. "But it has to get down to something very concrete as to what the government did. If it's an NGO, your view and I think the chairman's view too is that that NGO is hand and glove with the government."

Hemingway promptly explained the extent of the government's relationship with NGOs that has caused conservative and dissenting outlets to be censored.

"The government will work in partnership with NGOs on something like the Election Integrity Partnership where they flag items for removal from social media companies," Hemingway replied. "And so they are funding these NGOs, sometimes they're actually flagging for these NGOs, for-profit Big Tech companies will then remove the content."

It's no secret that the government has worked closely with NGOs to suppress dissenting speech and independent platforms, including Blaze News. Despite the long and well-documented history of this collusion, Welch argued that Democrats are simply not sophisticated enough to execute such large-scale censorship.

"This is just an observation," Welch said. "I'm part of the Democratic Party. You give us way too much credit for being that organized to be able to put this whole massive enterprise together."

"In part because you can rely on the censorship industrial complex to do the work for you," Hemingway said.

Immediately following Hemingway's response, Welch quickly yielded the remainder of his time.

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RFK Jr. blows Tucker Carlson’s mind; says what NO politician will admit



The Biden administration has never been a fan of political dissidents, and RFK Jr. is living proof.

“Thirty-seven hours after he took the oath of office, President Biden’s White House opened up a portal for the FBI to begin to have access to social media posts on all the different social media sites,” RFK explained in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

“The FBI then invited in the CIA, DHS, the IRS, and CISA. CISA is this new agency that is the center of the censorship industrial complex that is in charge, making sure Americans don’t hear things that their government doesn’t want them to hear.”

Those agencies, as well as agencies like the CDC, were given access to social media sites to change posts and shadow-ban users.

“I lost my Instagram account; I had almost a million followers. They say it was for ‘misinformation,’ but they could not point to a single post that I ever made that was factually erroneous,” RFK explains.

In emails, Facebook was recorded pushing back and saying RFK wasn’t factually incorrect, so they had to come up with a new word for what RFK was doing.

“Malinformation, which is information that is factually true but nevertheless inconvenient for the government,” he says, to which Tucker responds, “That’s illegal.”

“The White House was overtly telling them that if they didn’t comply, that their Section 230 immunity was in jeopardy,” RFK adds.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” isn’t surprised but is disturbed.

“It should be noted that even if RFK Jr., with his 1 million followers on Instagram, was sharing misinformation,” Rubin says, “it's not illegal.”

“It would be against the First Amendment,” he adds.


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