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Hollywood Hates Censorship but Won't Act, The Atlantic Idiotically Compares Charlie Kirk to George Floyd

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Oct 03, 2025
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Pulitzer Prize Nomination – THE ATLANTIC

  • When their equivalency amounts to zero in the formula.

Thomas Chatterton Williams rides in with a mentally-stunted thinkpiece where he has the stones to compare the Charlie Kirk assassination and the aftermath to the George Floyd death and the BLM summer.

It does not need to be explained how this is so asinine. Chatterton Williams cannot even see the lack of violent outrage that was on display in 2020 as an indicator of how he is so in error, but how his editors did not hit the PAUSE button on this reflects on the whole magazine.

Reporting on the Mirror – HOLLYWOOD

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  • You are all standing together, fine. Will you actually DO something?

The issue of censorship, once a rock-solid position held in Hollywood, has become a fluid concept. For example, they are today willing to alter finished movies in order to appease the communist censors so they can get films shown in China.

A larger group of artists has come out in support of the regeneration of a McCarthy-era organization, The Committee for the First Amendment. This is a response to the “censorship” that has affected Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and more. Well over 500 names have bravely signed on to the letter put out by this reconstituted group. What does this letter declare they will do?

Well…nothing. They just proclaim they will stand together and decry censorship, concerning two names currently on the air, saying whatever they want.

First Amendment Strike Force – AMAZON

  • Where are the censor scolds in Hollywood over this move?!

It would seem that Amazon Prime has a standard where it does not want to display any promotional materials for movies that display weaponry. We think? This proves a curious stance from the studio that has produced military-based offerings like “The Terminal List” and “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.”

It has been shown that on the collection of James Bond movies offered on the platform, they have erased the display of a gun on all the key art for each film.

Both Kinds of Standards – CNN

  • “Where do people get these ideas?” asks the outlet delivering those ideas.

Joe Concha delivers the best visual on the conflict of the government shutdown, the Democrats wanting illegals to get health coverage, and the press covering for the Dems.

This display sums up the entire issue quite efficiently.

Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – CNN

  • Danny should check on Jake!

The suddenly energized truth detector at CNN, Daniel Dale, has sprung into action this week, slamming the president. In one instance, he takes issue with the matter of Democrats wanting illegals to get health care. He was on with Jake Tapper to decry claims being made about the Democrats' proposal during the shutdown.

Yet, Jake—on the very same broadcast—laid out how the very thing they were dismissing as false was, in fact, taking place.

Gilded Reframe – MSNBC

  • There’s that word again, tripping them up on their narrative.

One-time conservative and longtime mailman’s son, John Kasich, was on the soon-to-be repackaged MSNBC, trying to lecture the Trump administration. John was trying to deliver a paternal message that all of these acts of alleged aggression toward opponents would one day rear back and bite conservatives.

One problem, though, with this lecture: John was addressing what he called Trump’s acts of “retribution.” Mr. Kasich seemed incapable of grasping that the use of that word means that it is, in fact, Democrats who should be regretting their actions directed at Trump and being used on them today.