The not-very-funny comedian once named by Time magazine as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People" has been fired by Disney-owned ABC after comments he made about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Sick leftists have been celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk, an innocent man, carried out in public in front of a crowd by evil leftist extremist Tyler Robinson. On mainstream media, left-wing hosts and so-called journalists have been making every effort to minimize the evil of the act and of the killer himself and have engaged in every desperate propaganda ploy possible to make it look like the murderer was somehow not a leftist extremist comrade of theirs. 

One example of this behavior came on September 15 when late night host Jimmy Kimmel used his opening monologue to claim that President Trump was unmoved by the murder of Charlie and that the killer was somehow a conservative, thus, in the minds of many, blaming Kirk and other conservatives for the murder.

This kind of propaganda from the mainstream media has been so normalized for so long that most Americans don't even notice it. In fact, as long ago as the early 1940s, one investigative author was able to point out that the mainstream media already had become a bastion of far left extremism by the 1930s. 

Investigative journalist Eugene Lyons -- a 25-year veteran editor for Reader's Digest -- documented the rise of American communism in the 1930s in his book, The Red Decade, first published in 1941. In it, he described the left-wing takeover of Hollywood, quoting at length from William Bledsoe who, at that time, was editor for Screen Guild Magazine. 

Having been a close observer of the "Revolution" in Hollywood, according to Lyons, Bledsoe recalled:

I saw the Celluloid Uprising in its most fantastic hours.... I witnessed the revolt of the Hollywood wage slaves and the Stalin putsch. I saw Social Consciousness quicken and come to a boil in actors, writers and directors whose names rival Rinso and Camels as household words. I followed the insurrection mass meeting by mass meeting, cocktail party by cocktail party, until many a Big Name was more or less secretly enrolled in the Communist Party or tagging along solemnly in one of the "front" leagues and committees. The political pig-Latin of class struggle, anti-fascism, and revolutionary tactics rippled around swimming pools and across dance floors. Five-thousand dollars-a-week proletarians rattled their gold chains of servitude as Russia, Spain, the sharecroppers, China and New Masses were saved anew and defended once more.

Apart form certain details such as what passes for "household words" these days and the amount of inflation of the value of the dollar, much of this, written decades ago, certainly has eery echoes today. 

But it goes to show just how long Hollywood has been involved in producing communist and extremist leftist propaganda. 

Perhaps with the ouster of Kimmel the tide will finally wash some of the Stalinism out of Hollywood.

Naturally, today's leftist extremists are up in arms about the "afront to free speech" that the firing of Kimmel represents.

Oh, the irony and hypocrisy!

These are the same leftists that cheered as the comrades of the Biden administration sought to shut down the speech of conservatives while they used every trick of lawfare to silence and persecute their political foes. They are now calling for the boycott of Disney as they "stand with Jimmmy Kimmel."

They also forget that rather than standing with Roseanne Barr, they cheered when the same Disney-owned ABC gave her the boot from her own show for thought crime. They cheered just as loudly when the Disney-owned Lucas Film fired fan-favorite actress Gina Carano from the hit Star Wars show The Mandalorian when she engaged in the thought crime of pointing out leftist totalitarianism on social media.

Today, normal Americans are aghast at the behavior of our mainstream leftist extremist propagandists apologizing for, attempting to whitewash and even sometimes celebrating murderous left-wing assassins like Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson. 

They are shocked and appalled only because they have forgotten that this is decades-old standard behavior for communists and communist sympathizers. This behavior, again, was noted by Eugene Lyons when he included a chapter in The Red Decade titled "HOORAY FOR MURDER!" 

The murders he was referencing with that chapter heading were those carried out in the wake of the notorious Moscow show trials that led to the executions of tens of thousands of those that Stalin and his henchmen disliked and wanted removed. 

Lyons noted: 

...from the beginning of 1935 forward ... the bloodiest political purge of modern times unfolded in Stalin's land. It was official carnage unprecedented for size and imbecilic in detail. Before it ran its sanguinary career, a whole generation of Soviet leaders -- the generation that had made the Bolshevik Revolution -- was slaughtered; at least fifty thousand communists, officials, professors, economists were killed without the formality of trials; the country's foremost generals, admirals and marshals were executed and four-fifths of the higher officers' corps, about 30,000 Red Army, Navy and Aviation specialists, were "liquidated" by exile, demotions and execution; a terror more frightful than anything in a thousand years of Russia's sanguinary history swept through the country, leaving moutains of corpses in its wake.

Extreme leftists in this country, believing every official line out of the international Communist public relations departments, were eager apologists for this mass crime. 

Lyons notes that on April 28, 1938 the communist Daily Worker newspaper published the names of 150 then prominent Americans who had signed a statement supporting the show trials.

The Daily Worker wrote: "Nearly 150 prominent American artists, writers, composers, editors, movie actors, college professors and Broadway figures yesterday issued a statement in support of the verdicts of the recent Moscow trials of the Trotskyite-Bukharinite traitors."

Who was on this list of signers in favor of, and celebrating, murder? Lyons recounts: "Those in the published list included such famous Russian and legal authorities as Lionel Stander, Muriel Draper, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Philip Loeb, Harold J. Rome -- which is to say, comedians, lyricists, actors, society ladies, fiction writers."

Some, or all of these names, may not be familiar to modern readers. For a refresher:

• Lionel Stander: Appeared in hundreds of films, radio shows and TV from 1928 to 1994; awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1980s television series Hart to Hart.
• Muriel Draper: Writer and radio host for the show "It's a Woman's World." Her papers are stored at Yale University. She was a founding member of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
• Dashiell Hammett: Novelist widely considered to be among the best mystery writers and author of the celebrated novel The Maltese Falcon.
• Dorothy Parker: Scriptwriter, poet with two Academy Award nominations. Wrote the script for the 1937 movie A Star is Born that starred the first name listed above, Lionel Stander.
• Philip Loeb: Theater actor and movie star, best known for his role in The Goldbergs on stage and in its CBS television show adaptation in the 1950s.
• Harold J. Rome: Broadway composer whose credits include I Can Get It for You Wholesale in which Barbara Streisand made her debut in 1962.

Especially since the 1930s, Hollywood and the mainstream media have had a free pass to produce and distribute hard-core leftwing propaganda in an effort to undermine the American Constitution, the Republic, and the fundamental natural rights identified by Jefferson and the Founders that the very nation was created to protect. 

Finally, perhaps, their dangerous decades-long death grip on intellectual life in this country -- which has led to the outrageous and now deadly demonization of conservatives and Christians -- is coming to an end.