All these things can be true at the same time about ABC’s pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!

First, Kimmel is a dishonest hack who used his show to spread self-indulgent partisan dreck. Private companies, as leftists pointed out only a few years ago, have the option of “deplatforming” anyone they please. Kimmel has no God-given right to be on television. Syndicates like Nexstar and Sinclair, with significant conservative audiences, had a fiduciary responsibility to drop a show that offended large swaths of their viewers. The other night, Kimmel didn’t merely mock MAGA or criticize Charlie Kirk. He blatantly lied about the ideology of the shooter to his audience. And not only did he intentionally mislead them, but he also blamed the victims. It was an indecent thing to do. Kimmel, who had plenty of time to apologize, will likely fall back on the fact that he is allegedly a comedian. That doesn’t hold water anymore.