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Barack Obama Complains About Kimmel and Cancel Culture? Here’s a Look Back at Our Former Censor in Chief by Brad Slager FTA: And now the hypocrisy reaches its nadir. Like with any story that creeps into the headlines, it is not officially a news story until former President Barack Obama chimes in with his opinion, and this is a gem. If he is not considered the man who ushered in cancel culture, he has to be credited with making it fashionable at the highest levels. You first have to appreciate the built-in hypocrisy. This approach of “How DARE they now accept what they have always opposed” cannot exist without the tacit admission that you had been engaged in that very activity. This is a man getting hissy that his tactics are being used on him, in classic Saul Alinsky fashion. But let’s look into Obama’s history of attacks on free expression. We will start small and with a dose of equivalency. While the press this year has been carping about the administration putting clamps on the White House press corps, it has been forgotten that this came into practice during the Obama years. His administration was prone to manipulating the official press pool reports being issued. (In one ironic example, his press secretary had a reporter strike the comment that after praising a free press in a speech delivered in Asia, Obama was blocking photo ops, during the same trip.) Another frequent practice was freezing out the media throng entirely. He was not averse to having White House reporters whisked out as he was staging meetings. In what has to be the most ironic of examples, there was the time Obama was recognized with a transparency in government award, and he received the honor in a closed-door session with the press locked out. But the former president took this to even deeper, disturbing levels. He would target reporters on the regular, in super executive fashion, and the lack of outrage in the media was a sign that this was condoned on some level – even as he was undermining their very profession. Think back to the wailing heard from journalists whenever Trump would simply criticize or insult a reporter or a news outlet. It was always deemed an “attack” and a threat to our democracy. But during Obama’s term, he literally went after reporters. Fox News reporter James Rosen had his and his network’s phone records seized, as well as those of his parents. Government contractor Stephen Kim was jailed for sharing information with the reporter. And this was hardly an isolated instance involving the “scandal-free” president. But he took that irony deeper. The Democrats and the press love to tout the merits of whistleblowers who expose corruption and other questionable acts – until those sainted individuals are heard detailing Democrat impropriety. Obama clamped down on those folks, as well as any leakers in his administration, by invoking the Espionage Act, far more than any other president. The Obama administration also targeted the Associated Press in a wildly aggressive fashion. Not just a lone reporter or two were involved; this was a months-long effort that went after the news syndicate’s offices in multiple cities, and many of the AP reporters had not just their office numbers, but also their personal and home phone lines targeted by the Obama DOJ. And it was all done on the sly. This is the same man who today is complaining that a comedian being sidelined for broadcasting misinformation is the height of government intrusion into free expression. It is utterly laughable to hear any complaint of the Trump administration being a threat to the free press when Obama displayed less affection for the media than a Peterbilt driver has for a $25 truck stop escort. It all comes down to this reality, one that the left does not want to acknowledge. Whatever your position on the moves that led to Jimmy Kimmel being gagged, it has only taken place because the likes of Barack Obama paved the roadway towards blocking free expression. Obama made censorship trendy, and now he is mad that others are tugging on his silencing fashions. https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/09/18/barack-obama-complains-about-kimmel-and-cancel-culture-heres-a-look-back-at-our-censor-in-chief-n2194100

US Seeking to Regain Control of Bagram Air Base in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan: Trump The United States had withdrawn its troops from Bagram in the summer of 2021, shortly before the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government. by Ryan Morgan The United States is actively working to regain control over Bagram Air Base in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said in remarks on Sept. 18. U.S. forces relinquished control over the major air base in 2021, during the force drawdown from the country. The United States handed over control of the base to the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which collapsed in August 2021 as the Taliban seized control over the Afghan capital city of Kabul. Speaking during a press conference in the UK on Thursday, Trump suggested that the current Taliban authority in Afghanistan needs things that the United States can provide, and may be amenable to a deal allowing allowing a renewed U.S. presence at the key base. https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/us-seeking-to-regain-control-of-bagram-air-base-in-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-trump-5916936? Whatever they have to pay...............send the bill to Joe Biden.

'I am now a registered Republican': Social media confirms tsunami of voters fleeing Democrat Party 'Charlie Kirk' effect hits leftists when they already are flailing By Bob Unruh https://www.wnd.com/2025/09/i-am-now-registered-republican-social-media-confirms/

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Kimmel -- "They only fired me because I'm Black -- Greg Gutfeld (last Night)

To those here who have downplayed this assassination's effect

Typical spin. He can still say whatever he wants. Freedom ! He hasn't been thrown in prison. But the marketplace decided that he overstepped it's decency , by lying on the air (not in a joke ) But you knew that. .

President ? Biden

Who will pick our crops now?

Except that is not what happened. But we know that you NEED to believe it.

YOU ASKED FOR IT.

BUMP.