{"id":8217,"date":"2025-09-18T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:10:34","slug":"poem-the-accost-of-free-speech-is-going-up-owed-to-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/poem-the-accost-of-free-speech-is-going-up-owed-to-jimmy-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: The Accost of Free Speech is Going, Up — Owed to Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” has been pulled off the air “indefinitely” by ABC. The offending material: Kimmel said during his opening monologue, “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.”<\/p>\n

Parently, the paternalistic FTC reckons the monologue as a big log, enormously offending material…<\/p>\n

The Accost of Free Speech is Going, Up — Owed to Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The shit
\nHas hit
\nThe fans
\nThe accost of free speech
\nIs going
\nUp
\nIn the taking down
\nOf any parody of powers
\nAs the political wins blow
\nThere is allot of pissing
\nInto it
\nOpen
\nToo say
\nA mouthful
\nAs congregants and confederates
\nA mass
\nAs shit flies
\nAnd urine trouble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” has been pulled off the air “indefinitely” by ABC. 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