Not so much offensive, as utterly puzzling given the information we had on him by Monday night.

Not a fan of Trump or Jimmy, and I don’t think this is a proportional or good response. I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air. I also don’t understand why he left that little dig in his monologue.

Which information? The completely unverified stuff based on "a reconstruction" or "aggressive interview posture" from the same FBI led by the guy currently contradicting himself and telling lies in front of Congress?

This Administration was basically founded on making strident claims on TV which turned out to be lies they couldn't back up in a court of law.

Doesn't seem that outlandish given the president of the united states said it was a extreme left lunatic before this.

> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air.

Have you not been paying attention to where rhetoric in this country has gone in the past 8 months? The first amendment is dead, the great leader is publically calling for his critics to lose their broadcast licenses, and the new SOP is for the government to squeeze the shit out of anyone who doesn't toe the line. (Which is an ever-shrinking group of people.)

Be it with SLAPP suits, or by holding merger approvals, or by just threatening witch-hunts.

This is what 48% of the electorate wanted, and, well, it's what they've delivered.

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Meanwhile, in Fox land, Brian Kilmeade was publically calling for mass-murder of the mentally ill the other day. For some strange reason, neither Trump nor the FCC, nor all the people outraged about political violence are making a peep about that.

Kimmels show was expensive, Kimmel has baggage ( a history of racist comedy, including blackface ). This was a convenient opportunity to chop dead wood.

I mean, definitely offensive. Intended to offend.

> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air.

Very little was needed. The U.S. president had already ominously threatened Kimmel and other late night hosts the day after Colbert was canceled, weeks before the shooting.

I thought Kimmel was hilarious; but as they say, there’s no accounting for taste.

The most ridiculous thing about this is that the world doesn’t cleave neatly into “radical left lunatics” and the righteous real Americans. I still can’t tell what the murderer was. Whatever that was, he acted on his own impulses - ones that are not broadly celebrated, irrespective of claims to the contrary.