For Irish audiences, Jimmy Kimmel is only slightly more familiar than Charlie Kirk was before his murder 11 days ago.
Kimmel’s stints presenting the Oscars may have given him a certain global visibility, but late-night US television tends to reach us as short clips on phones, rather than as a nightly appointment. That distance can make American media panics seem mildly exotic and slightly incomprehensible.
This one really matters, though. In his opening monologue on Monday, Kimmel told his audience on ABC that Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican and he accused the Maga movement of trying to spin the murder for political gain.
Kimmel also mocked Donald Trump’s answer to a question about Kirk. By then, details about the suspect were beginning to emerge and the first claim looked stale. The second was standard Kimmel, sharp and partisan, and unlikely to go down well in the White House.
The next day, Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commissi
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