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@JonahDispatch I fucking know right! Prosecute him for his other fucking crimes! Lying to congress under oath

Wait, they’re actually prosecuting Comey for that (dumb) tweet? Like really? That’s just so unbelievably lame.

@SethDillon @justimportant2 He’s a pos who isn’t even funny! Too that end if it’s not funny how is it a joke??????

@justimportant2 I'm not conflating anything. Of course ABC can fire him if they want to. I'm talking about characterizing his joke as criminal incitement to violence.

Kimmel hopes Trump will die soon, and he’s projecting that dark desire onto Melania. It’s not funny, but it’s not actually incitement to violence, either. Let's not pretend his bad joke was a crime so we can justify censoring him. That's how the left operates.

@SethDillon Also there’s this

@GeraldoRivera Hey dumbass a grand jury indicted him and he can have his day in court!

The Comey Indictment is a bullshit overreaction to a seashell caper. Zero chance of conviction. Silly waste of satire.

@BenVerlander If it’s touching the line it’s fair ! No difference if it was leaning against the third base, it it was touching the bag it’s fair so it’s the same difference

FAIR or FOUL ball? The MLB rulebook answers…

@CBSNews Free speech also has consequences! And we are free to speck, but we are free to suffer the consequences! Also we are free from the government telling us what to say and not say, but as individuals we don’t have that freedom, you can say it but you might not like the consequences

“It's deeply concerning because free speech is either for everyone or it is for no one.” Sharon McMahon is speaking out after Utah Valley University canceled her commencement address, citing “increased safety concerns.” McMahon, an author and educator, says the decision followed a “coercive pressure campaign” tied to comments she made after the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. She joins CBS News’ Major Garrett on “The Takeout” to discuss.

@asukagrypr I thought this dickhead left the country. What the fuck is he doing back?

Nick Fuentes has a HOT TAKE on the attempted assassination attempt on President Trump. "What was interesting about this assassination attempt, maybe even more than the attempt itself is the talking points that went out almost immediately."

@jmgrasty @tracegallagher Well you have TDS and I don’t even gives two shits about kimmy or his rhetoric trying to spew violence against Trump that’s his problem not mine problem with you is you don’t see it

@JohnnySeabourn @tracegallagher You get real and get out of your own butt sir … I’m being grown up & factual ….... Trump can be wrong and is a great deal of the time …. My opinion Trump “wished Mueller dead as he wished Liz C should face a firing squad” Kimmel does wrong .. so does POTUS … agree ? Get real

NIGHTCAP QUESTION: The White House says Jimmy Kimmel should be fired for a joke about President Trump dying. The liberal media is calling this a "free speech test." What do you think? Should jokes like this be fair game for late night?

@TheRickWilson Yes build it you pos

No.

@brad_polumbo So maybe the president in your words was using his first amendment rights to ask for Kimmy to be fired! Check that out dumbass

Doesn't matter whether you approve of the joke or despise it: It's extremely inappropriate for the president of the United States to pressure private companies to fire comedians who mock him. The Right would've (rightly) melted down if Obama or Biden had ever done this.

@stengel No dummy it’s that the government can’t infringe on one’s speech, in fact if it was held there any and all speech would be allowed, maybe not yelling fire or kill anyone that might be frowned on

By the way, the White House hosting the correspondents dinner in its own ballroom is arguably a violation of the First Amendment: it's government control over press access and expression and could have a chilling effect on criticising the president.

@TaraSetmayer Freedom of speech is from the government! It can’t infringe on your right to say what you want! It doesn’t cover person to person, and even if it does even free speech has consequences

Who wants to tell Melania that in America we have something called First Amendment protected speech that includes mocking anyone we want to, especially public figures like her. Get over it.

@WalshFreedom So kimmy wants Trump dead but you say nothing Trump only wants kimmy fired for wanting him dead but you’re mad at Trump

Here we go again…the President & his family using the powers of his office to demand that a private individual be fired. Trump is the most anti-freedom President in American history.

@KeithOlbermann @ABC Keith move that dick from your mouth when you talk your not making any sense!!!!!

Dear @ABC even if you count Saturday as an "assassination attempt" on Trump it is NOT his third "in office" as just reported on your radio bulletin. It's his first. The other two were as a candidate. Stop sucking up to Mr Professional Martyr

@BrianKarem I thought the wanna be assassin cock sucker was from California

Just two weeks ago Trump said D.C. was safe and people were walking around going to restaurants and such. What happened?

@jmgrasty @tracegallagher See I’m trying to have a grown up conversation, you are so up your own ass that you will not be responsible, as I said the secret service can handle that, as a side note he wouldn’t say that about my wife without me thinking he wished me dead, so come on get real

@jmgrasty @tracegallagher All speech has consequences even if we have freedom of speech, as not to put words in Kimble’s mouth but he is wish death upon the president, I’ll let the secret service worry about that, now Trump didn’t wish mueller dead he said good riddance, not tasteful, he didn’t wish death

@dpakman Freedom of speech also has consequences, you can’t wish for the murder of the president and it be without consequence, and yes bitch he said widow so your next statement would be well there’s natural causes, but the dems have already tried to kill him 2 times dumbass

Both Donald and Melania Trump have now called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired for jokes. What happened to the 1st Amendment? Freedom of the press? Free speech? I think this will backfire. The American people realize that, politics aside, this is a dangerous path to go down, even if Trump and MAGA don’t care.

@davidaxelrod @jimmykimmel You’re a piece of shit! you are think that it’s funny that he called Melania Trump a widow therefore you’re saying that Trump is dead and you’re wishing he was dead because therefore Melania Trump will be a widow that’s what you’re saying fucking idiot

I like @jimmykimmel. He's funny & courageous at a time when there has been too much cowardice. That said, this WAS a tasteless joke. The WH will use any issue to demand he be fired because his satire touches a nerve, and ABC is right to resist. But he'd be right to apologize.

@gothburz @LABeachGal1 Well you’re dealing with POS journalists and so called reporters so there you go

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.