>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

Mr. Kimmel does not assert Mr. Robinson was "MAGA". Simply that the, "MAGA gang" is trying to distance themselves from Mr. Robinson.

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dismalaf 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> Mr. Kimmel does not assert Mr. Robinson was "MAGA".

He absolutely did insinuate just that.

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suzdude 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Where in the quote does he assert Mr. Robinson is MAGA? Everyone is attempting to distance themselves from him. The "MAGA gang" are simply doing on the most popular main stream "news" outlet in the United States.

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dismalaf 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Kimmel said this: "The MAGA Gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them"

Dunno if English is your second language or what but that definitely insinuates the killer is MAGA and is the quote people have an issue with.

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suzdude 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you _decide_ to read it that way, you can. But you'd have to be looking for something to be offended about.

Given Mr. Robinson's upbringing being very similar to many MAGA, it would make sense for them to attempt to distance themselves from him, no?

The same way non-maga would distance themselves by asserting how unusual his access to firearms and firearms training is compared to the general public?

Maybe English is not your first language? Critical reading skills are important.

	▲	dismalaf 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmation_and_negation

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defrost 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have 60+ years of English as a first language, a library of several floor to ceiling bookcases and no, it definitely does not say that the killer is MAGA.

It's a classic deliberate line skate but it clearly states what the "MAGA Gang" is asserted to have done without actually claiming the killer to be be part of that "Gang".

It wouldn't pass muster in an English libel Court and it's a milquetoast sentence in the US first amendment free speech world.

Further it is a bald matter of demonstrable fact that multiple voices that could be characterised as "MAGA" were indeed making numerous assertions about the killer and their motives before any facts other than the shooting itself were known.

This makes the Kimmel statement little more than a dull piece of observational social commentary.