The sacking of Blackface Kimmel           

ABC's firing of slime-hearted personality Jimmy Kimmel, following Charlie Kirk's deplorable murder, was entirely appropriate. Woke sorts heatedly allege free-speech violation, but they couldn't be more wrong. (And at least some probably know it.)

Kimmel worked for ABC. Workers accept some company discretion over their comportment as conditions of employment. For example, certain jobs require uniforms be worn. Employers can tell workers when to show up, and when they can go home. Haircuts and hygiene fall into the same category. 

No employee enjoys legal safeguard to invade their manager's office, storm around the desk, and bellow profanities in the boss's startled face. Repeatedly. Those doing so should expect termination. The wonderful free-speech clause does not lend cover.

Nor is a supermarket clerk at liberty to holler Gilbert and Sullivan operas while a half-dozen shoppers wait, their carts filled nearly to overflow.

Kimmel has as much right as any of us to speak openly on matters that impact him - in private capacity, and at his own expense. But he enjoys no right to employment at this or that company. 

Airwaves are publicly owned. To stream programming on them, broadcasters must agree to serve the public interest. Kimmel forfeited his platform by not only knowingly spewing ugly, objective untruths, but doing so as a calculated partisan political tactic.

That disserves the public. We shouldn't be expected to provide comfort for devious agents of our devastation.

Some Kimmel adherants maintain that FCC Chair Brendan Carr 'pressured' ABC to take action. They decry supposed government censorship.

But considering the network's contractual assent to observe public interests, the FCC advising ABC to properly adhere to accepted responsibilities amounted to enforcing law. 

(Doing so was once uncontroversial. But championing criminality and belching contempt for law officers are now standard for progressives. Witness sanctuary cities, elected Democrats' hailing of the massively destructive, 2020 BLM/Antifa nationwide riots, the deification of Luigi Mangioni, and woke bacchanalia surrounding the brutal assassination of Christian conservative Charlie.)

Not irrelevant were Kimmel's consistently dwindling ratings. Sweating network executives surely factored that dismal truth into considerations. (Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert also recently evidenced anti-Americanism's thankful unprofitability.) 

So, the culmination may have been a dollar-and-cents one, not the 'fascist oppression' of subversives' hyperventilations.

Astoundingly, rumblings now speculate ABC may be reconsidering Kimmel's sacking. Somebody's fucking somebody.

Today, this essay ran in the Marshalltown, Iowa Times-Republican newspaper:

The Woke weep only for the Wicked                                                 

Charlotte, North Carolina Democrat Mayor Vi Lyles' first public comment following the savage murder of Ukraine-born Iryana Zaruta was a call for greater "compassion" for the barbaric nutcase who had repeatedly plunged a razory blade into the 23 year-old innocent's throat.

I'm not making that up.

Lyle's despicableness was reflective of present-day woke Democrats. (They are to be distinguished from old-school liberals, from whom that party wants only ballot endorsements, never ideals: 'Shut up and pull the Democrat lever.')

Scant evenings ago, White House Deputy of Staff and Policy Advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Hannity. Ever the common-sensical straight-talker, he passionately excoriated guileful progressives who cultivate unchecked bloodthirst in American neighborhoods.

The Democrat Party is "terrorizing the American people," Miller declared. "Just think about what is happening in our major cities: The bloodbaths, every single weekend. One victim after another. One shooting after another. One murder after another."

He decried Democrats' philosophical refusal to punish lawbreakers (and Fake News mongers' purposeful covering-up of the widespread brutishness laying waste to American society). The deputy of staff and policy advisor then turned attention to Iryana's murderer, vicious maniac Decarlos Brown, Jr. 

"And then you look at that video that chills our very souls, out of Charlotte. That beautiful young woman stabbed to death. Murdered, savagely, on a subway. Just trying to get home from work. Fleeing war, only to run into a Democrat war zone here in our country. 

"That monster!14 prior arrests! In and out, in and out! The Democrat policy of catch-and-release for barbarians, for savages, is truly an act of terror, Sean, against the American people. It cannot be explained, unless you deeply, fundamentally hate America."

During a September nine press conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt voiced appropriate media criticism: "Perhaps most shamefully of all, the majority of the media, many outlets in this room, decided that her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a preferred narrative...Many of the journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink, trying to smear [Marine veteran] Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but none of those same reporters lift a finger to write stories about an actual murderer."

If the increasingly communistic party of the antisemitic Squad and New York City subversive Zohran Mamdani didn't relish rampant rapes, murders, child exploitation, and illegal immigration, they'd give the single-digit salute to pro-crime prejudices and instead champion the law-abiding public. 

But Marxists cheer societal collapse. It is easier to promote revolution when order has crumbled.

"Look, this has become their religion," White House patriot Miller spat derisively. "Celebrating criminals. Celebrating predators. Celebrating illegal aliens who prey on our citizens. It is evil. It is deliberate. It is malign. It is malicious."

What happened to poor Iryana is outrageous. And hellish are the politicians and mentally disheveled rabble in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Portland and elsewhere, who urge lawful order be ravaged and who attack law enforcement personnel, including ICE.

"President Trump has said the Republican Party will fight like hell to keep your kids safe," Miller asserted.

But the Woke weep only for the Wicked.

Waterloo's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, and American Thinker. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

Sad jester denies Rock'n'Roll's blended bloods

MSNBC race-hate monger Joy Reid was recently booted from that drain-circling, wacky left outlet.

But even as she writhes hilariously in professional demise, Reid continues to gasp out her wickedness.

"We black folk gave y’all Country music, Hip-Hop, R&B, Jazz, Rock'n'Roll. They couldn’t even invent that, but they have to call a white man ‘The King.’ Because they couldn’t make Rock'n'Roll, so they have to stamp ‘The King’ on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman," Reid recently told podcaster Wajahat Ali, himself a progressive shoveler of race hate.

"Hound Dog," the song to which the rejected black-supremacist blowhard referred, and which the dominative Big Mama Thornton first sang, was written by Mike Lieber and Jerry Stoller, a white, Jewish songwriting team responsible for hits by Elvis, the Coasters, Wilbert Harrison, Ben E. King, and numerous other marquee names.

Of course, select Rock'n'Roll ingredients existed prior to Presley's 1954 recording debut at Sun Records in Memphis. Works embodying them were electrifying and wondrous.

But the national stage appearance of Crown Electric Co. truck driver Elvis marked -- not an example of white culture appropriating something blacks had already developed, but for which they were denied credit -- but the emergence of the hitherto-unrepresented country, white working class into popular culture visibility. And that idiosyncratic influence is essential to the genre. 

The composite creature was unlike any predecessor. Tennessee Rockabilly guitar man Carl Perkins did not sound like venerated shouter Big Joe Turner, nor did the frantic storms of Jerry Lee Lewis recall the risible and urbane stylings of Fats Waller -- though all men helped develop the new music.

In his invaluable volume, "Unsung Heroes of Rock'n'Roll," veteran music writer Nick Tosches noted that the burgeoning sound, which spread across 1950s America and ultimately the entire globe, began in regional pockets and was of mixed parentage.

"Rock'n'Roll was not created solely by blacks or whites," wrote Tosches. Earlier, after dispatching mono-racial Rock'n'Roll creation fancies, the author observed, "One could make just as strong a case for Jews being the central ethnic group in Rock'n'Roll's early history; for it was they who produced many of the best songs, cultivated much of the greatest talent, and operated the majority of the pioneering record companies."

It would be impossible to construct an exhaustive review of early Rock'n'Roll without citing Doc Pomus, Mort Schuman, Les Bihari, or Sid Nathan. It is telling that many of today's race-as-creative-qualification theorists might not even be able to identify those men, significant to the style's germination though they were.

It is flatly anti-creative to argue that an individual or community can "steal" art from another. Universal influencing is not only legitimate,  but how works are birthed. One artist inspires another, an idea is raised up, turned around, and new art is born.

Concepts like ownership, territoriality and separatism are wholly foreign to the phenomenon.

Critics are correct to point out that elements of white-dominated mass popular culture have at times assumed and domesticated black-impacted idioms (think Pat Boone), while paying neither due acknowledgment nor recompense. Deserving artists went unnoticed - and that was criminal.

But Elvis was one of many talented men and women whose music helped American popular culture become representative of all America's people. To ignore that today and instead proffer slanderous myths is an affront not only to their contributions and the prize of racial unity, but to the ideals of honesty and reason.

White House spokesman Harrison Fields was caustic:

"Joyless Reid is an ungrateful hack who fails to acknowledge her privilege. Whatever remains of her success would only be possible in the United States of America, the same country she degrades for sport. She was too unhinged for MSNBC, and was fired. Instead of changing her act, she’s doubled down on stupid."  

Democrats cheer evil                         

The hush that followed President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder was a matter of universally shared basic decency. 

But that was then. Today, if a conservative president fell to a lunatic's bullets, leftists would freestyle on the coffin-lid. Remember, hordes of elected Democrats, liberal activists, and Hollywood leftists sped to microphones to trumpet glee, when President Trump was nearly assassinated.

Obama-appointed Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, James Boasberg, is infamous for repeatedly striving to cripple Trump. He seems to feel doing so is his calling. The judge recently released Nathalie Rose Jones from pre-trial custody. He merely specified she wear an ankle monitor.

Jones had posted death threats against the president online. Here's one:

"I literally told FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present. Let’s deal with this and restore domestic tranquility.”

The New York Post reported that days prior to Boasberg's outrageous, unjust decision, a U.S. magistrate judge had denied Jones' bond application.

Also now reported are ghoulish remarks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made during a Labor Day weekend celebration. 

Playing off baseless media initimations that Trump may be suffering health problems, Walz giggled: "You get up in the morning and doom scroll through things and — although I will say this — the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying. Just saying. There will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news."

(One social-media commenter was acidic: "Biden got diagnosed with cancer, and I don't remember conservatives wishing him dead...")

Democrats today cheer assassins, corrupt judges, and terminal maladies, exhibiting essential depravity. Clear-visioned critics term the Democrat Party "the party of death." Given their happy jigs at the prospect of partisan opponents' violent deaths, Democrats cannot protest that the sobriquet is inaccurate.

(For further insight into Tampon Tim's ugly conception of morality, type "Tim Walz" and "Jenna Wang" into the nearest search engine.)