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Former CNN anchor and self-appointed guardian of the truth Jim Acosta unleashed several bits of fake news in the early moments of his Thursday podcast as he reacted to ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Most notably, Acosta claimed that all Kimmel did was call out MAGA for politicizing Charlie Kirk’s murder. Acosta wasted no time in getting to his hysterical rewriting of history: Welcome to The Jim Acosta Show, and it's another day that ends in Y and Donald Trump's assault on American democracy. We have entered a new era of snowflake fascism, ladies and gentlemen, in the U.S., where the snowflakes on the far-right whine and complain every time somebody hurts their feelings. The weak-kneed corporate executives who only know how to smooch Trump's butt simply go along with the dear leader's demands. The latest example, the canceling of Jimmy Kimmel's late night TV show, all Kimmel did was call out MAGA for attempting to capitalize on the death of Charlie Kirk, which of course they did.     First of all, as of now, Kimmel has only been suspended. Second of all, it is not true that “all Kimmel did was call out MAGA.” We know this because Acosta later played the clip, but not before adding, “Let's at least play what Jimmy Kimmel said and talk about it on the other side because I think this has been twisted around by the far-right and then just ABC and the stations responded to it.” In the clip, Kimmel was shown declaring, “New lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”     Talking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, Acosta reacted, “Yeah, now, I mean, Ali, I don't know what your take is on it. I said this last week: that there was a rush on the part of people in MAGA to basically pigeonhole the murderer as somebody who was trans or from the left, and so on. I mean, it was before the facts even came in. I think that's what Kimmel was saying there. And then, I mean, we should also note on social media, he was saying that this is wrong, what happened to Charlie Kirk.” If all Kimmel did was accuse MAGA of politicizing Kirk’s murder, that would’ve been bad, but it would not have generated the outrage that his comments ultimately did. Acosta wants to shame conservatives for trying to paint the shooter as a lefty “before the facts even came in,” even though it was pretty clear from his family and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox that is where the evidence was leading. All the while, people, including historian Heather Cox Richardson, whom Acosta had on his show less than a month ago, were claiming the shooter was a MAGA type. Whether Kimmel actually embraced this conspiracy theory or just lied by omission by refusing to give his audience this context, which Acosta is now also doing, is not particularly relevant because either one should be a fireable offense. Here is a transcript for the June 18 show: The Jim Acosta Show 9/18/2025 JIM ACOSTA: Welcome to The Jim Acosta Show, and it's another day that ends in Y and Donald Trump's assault on American democracy. We have entered a new era of snowflake fascism, ladies and gentlemen, in the U.S., where the snowflakes on the far-right whine and complain every time somebody hurts their feelings. The weak-kneed corporate executives who only know how to smooch Trump's butt simply go along with the dear leader's demands. The latest example, the canceling of Jimmy Kimmel's late night TV show, all Kimmel did was call out MAGA for attempting to capitalize on the death of Charlie Kirk, which of course they did. … I want to get to Carr in a moment, but let's at least play what Jimmy Kimmel said and talk about it on the other side because I think this has been twisted around by the far-right and then just ABC and the stations responded to it. ALI VELSHI: Yeah. JIMMY KIMMEL: New lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. ACOSTA: Yeah, now, I mean, Ali, I don't know what your take is on it. I said this last week: that there was a rush on the part of people in MAGA to basically pigeonhole the murderer as somebody who was trans or from the left, and so on. I mean, it was before the facts even came in. I think that's what Kimmel was saying there. And then, I mean, we should also note on social media, he was saying that this is wrong, what happened to Charlie Kirk.

On Wednesday, September 18, ABC announced the network’s decision to indefinitely suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" following host Jimmy Kimmel's controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10."We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” he said on the show’s September 16 episode.The hateful and inaccurate comment drew sharp criticism from FCC Chair Brendan Carr and led major affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair to pre-empt the show.Of course, the left is crying government overreach, claiming Carr forced the show’s suspension through coercion and threats, but Glenn Beck, who knows Carr personally, says he highly doubts that’s true.“I want you to know I am not for government involvement in any of this. Government should not be involved in this at all,” he clarifies. And yet he can’t dismiss the glaring irony of liberals’ cries of government censorship when they ignored and even supported Democrat administrations, specifically Biden's and Obama's, quietly pressuring social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to censor conservative voices.These Democrat administrations were “flexing their muscles all the time, making quiet threats to companies all the time, but yeah, apparently [liberals] don't see that,” he scoffs.The left didn’t care about protecting free speech when it was Tucker Carlson’s show — rated number two in all of cable news at the time — that was ripped off air at the behest of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who accused the Fox News anchor of "incitement of violence" in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol events. The socialist Democrat even bragged that it was her pressure campaign that influenced Fox’s decision to part ways with Carlson. “Deplatforming works and it is important. Good things can happen,” she boasted.But now that there’s suspicion that a Trump administration might have played a role in a show’s suspension, liberals are suddenly fretting over government overreach?“Now, you could say that maybe these companies are afraid of Donald Trump. Well, I will tell you that ABC should be afraid,” says Glenn, citing the $16 million defamation settlement that Trump won against ABC News over George Stephanopoulos falsely claiming Trump was found “liable for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll case — a costly lesson that likely drove ABC to suspend Kimmel’s show to avoid another legal blow.Lawsuits like this, Glenn argues, are how broadcasters like Kimmel should be held accountable — not through government censorship, but through courts.But there’s no doubt Kimmel has earned his current predicament.Not only was his comment about Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, being MAGA “not comedy,” it was a “lie,” says Glenn, adding that the blame isn’t just on Kimmel but on ABC as a whole, since surely the show’s script was seen by many eyes prior to airing.More than ever, it’s clear that ABC is “agenda-driven,” he says.But even so, “the FCC should not be involved in this,” he reiterates. “Let the grassroots market work itself out, not these giant organizations that are funded with our tax dollars.”To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the episode above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A profound mental health crisis lies at the heart of violence in America. Decarlos Brown Jr., the suspect in the brutal stabbing death of the Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, was in a mental hospital earlier this year and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. But doctors wouldn’t have released him if they had viewed him as a danger to himself or others.Similarly, the killers at Minneapolis’ Annunciation Catholic School and Nashville’s Covenant School both struggled with mental illness. Nearly all mass shooters also battled suicidal thoughts.Our mental health system cannot serve as the last line of defense — too many mistakes slip through.“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles warned after the stabbing death. “Mental health disease is just that — a disease. It needs to be treated with the same compassion.” After the Minneapolis attack, House Speaker Mike Johnson underscored the issue: “The problem is the human heart. It’s mental health. There are things that we can do.”Yet despite the fact that more than half of mass public shooters over the past 25 years were already under the care of mental health professionals, not a single one was identified as a danger to themselves or others. An entire body of academic research now explores why mental health experts so often fail to predict these attacks.What’s the plan?When professionals cannot identify threats before atrocities are committed, society must ask: What is the backup plan?The Minneapolis school murderer admitted: “I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years.” After the Nashville school shooting, police concluded the killer was “highly depressed and highly suicidal throughout her life.” Yet even with regular psychiatric care, experts found no signs of homicidal or suicidal intent.The 2022 Buffalo supermarket killer showed the same pattern. In June 2021, when asked about his future plans, he answered that he wanted to attend summer school, murder people there, and then commit suicide. Alarmed, his teacher sent him for evaluation by two mental health professionals. He told them it was a joke, and they let him go.Later he admitted: “I got out of it because I stuck with the story that I was getting out of class, and I just stupidly wrote that down. It was not a joke; I wrote that down because that’s what I was planning to do.”Many well-known mass killers saw psychiatrists before their attacks. U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, was himself an Army psychiatrist. Elliot Rodger, the UC Santa Barbara "incel" shooter, had received years of high-level counseling, but like the Buffalo killer, Rodger simply knew not to reveal his true intentions. The Army psychiatrist who last saw Ivan Lopez (the second Fort Hood shooter) concluded there was no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others.”Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes’ psychiatrist did warn University of Colorado officials about Holmes’ violent fantasies shortly before his attack, but even she dismissed the threat as insufficient for custody. And both a court-appointed psychologist and a hospital psychiatrist found Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho posed no danger to himself or others.Psychiatrists have every incentive to get these diagnoses right. Beyond professional pride and the desire to help, they face legal obligations to report threats. Families of victims have even sued psychiatrists for failing to recommend confinement. Despite this, psychiatrists consistently underestimate the danger.The problem runs deep enough to generate a whole academic literature. Some experts suggest psychiatrists try to prove their fearlessness or become desensitized to risk. Additional training in unusual cases may help, but predicting such rare outcomes will always remain extremely difficult.Hindsight makes the warning signs look obvious. Before the attack, even to experts, they rarely do. And while addressing mental illness, we should not stigmatize it. Mentally ill people are far more likely to become victims of violence than perpetrators. Only a tiny fraction ever commit murder.Take schizophrenia: More than 3.5 million Americans live with the disorder, yet only one schizophrenic has committed a mass attack since 2019. That makes the odds of such a crime less than 1 in 3.5 million — extremely rare.Victims left defenselessNo one wants dangerous individuals to access weapons. Are we going to disarm all mentally ill people, even though they themselves are at increased risk of violent crime? One woman we know saw her husband murdered in front of her by her stalker. She was very depressed but feared that in seeking mental help she would be denied the right to own a gun (which she needed to protect herself).Another factor that makes these attacks difficult to stop is that they are planned long in advance, with six months being about the shortest. The Sandy Hook massacre was planned for over two and a half years, allowing the perpetrator plenty of time to obtain weapons.RELATED: If ‘words are violence,’ why won’t the left own theirs? Photo by wildpixel via Getty ImagesThese killers, like the recent attacker in Minneapolis, often state outright in their manifestos and diaries that they target “gun-free zones.” They may be crazy, but they aren’t stupid. They expect to die, but they want attention when they do. They know that the higher the body count, the more media coverage they’ll receive. That’s why they choose places where no one can fight back.Weapons bans won’t workThe attack in Charlotte happened in a gun-free zone. The woman had no chance to defend herself when the attacker struck from behind, and no one on the train intervened. Bystanders may have hesitated out of fear — after all, the killer was a large man armed with a knife, even though knives are also banned on public transportation. Someone with a firearm possibly could have stopped the assault, just as a Marine veteran in July did in a Michigan Walmart, where at gunpoint he forced a knife-wielding attacker to drop his weapon. Others who tried to stop the attacker without a gun were stabbed.Our mental health system cannot serve as the last line of defense — too many mistakes slip through. If mental health professionals can’t reliably stop these attackers before they strike, we must ask: What’s the backup plan? Leaving targets unprotected isn’t the best option.Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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