...to a screen near you. A blank screen where there used to be an art known as comedic satire.  

First, it was Stephen Colbert's show getting notice. Now, it's Jimmy Kimmel getting yanked. 

So much for freedom of speech. 

To think that it was way last November that I wrote this:

(withgratitude to Martin Niemoller)

 

First they came for the truthtellers:

the journalists whose words aimed

to capture events, present them with

accuracy and fairness.

 

Then for the librarians, unafraid to defend

the sanctity of books, and all they hold

within their pages, even when small minds

choose to challenge what they contain.

 

After that, the teachers, whose loyalties rest always

with the children entrusted to them, guiding and

protecting them from hate and other abuse,

encouraging as they grow, like wide-faced flowers inthe sun.

 

Who will remain once the truthtellers are gone?

Only the liars who know to twist words, bending themto their own mean ends.

While those who have been duped will standopen-mouthed 

hungry and broken, by having been deceived.

We can only wonder just who will be next.