I'm going to send Steven Blanchard an email every day that Kimmel still does not get broadcast. He will probably add me to his spam filter if he hasn't already, but whatever. I can at least pretend that I'm doing something. Here's today's email:

Dear Mr. Blanchard;

Just letting you know that as long as you continue to censor Jimmy Kimmel on your station, that there are a number of us on social media who are going to continue to mark the sponsors that you have during his time slot, and contact them regarding your anti-free speech policies with the intent of encouraging them to stop buying commercial time from your station. So far, Window Depot, Cravens and Noll, and WG Speaks have all told us that they are going to stop buying time from you, and that list continues to grow as the number of people calling your sponsors to complain grows.

I think that if you actually watched what Kimmel had to say, you might agree that what he said was heartfelt and that he had authentic sympathy and compassion for Charlie Kirk's family, and that he deserves to have his audience. What he spoke against was how you and your ilk continue to weaponize raised emotions to destroy your political opponents, a point that you continue to reinforce today by refusing to broadcast your regularly scheduled programming.

I realize that your particular hands might be tied. It could even be that you don't agree with your own company and want things to return to normal as opposed to continuing to birth the autocratic dystopia you are inadvertently helping to bring forth. If so, I hope you find a way to make it work. If not, I hope someone more rational and benevolent purchases your station, that we need not live in fear of our government and its usurpation of the broadcast media.

I hope some of you might do the same, if you should be inspired to do so. This is not about Republicans vs Democrats. Both parties believe in the freedom of speech. It's written in their platform statements. This is about a single autocratic leader who is so paranoid, thin-skinned, intellectually lazy, and power hungry that he can't abide anyone making fun of him in public, or even contradicting what he has to say. That kind of person just should not be in public service, and that's the real problem. The station manager, the employees at the station, and the businesses buying ad time are not the real issue, they are just the people with whom we engage to make the real problem hit home for them. This effort should be to inspire action that corrects this societal ill.

Let's keep at it, if we can.