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Free speech is not a courtesy that appears only when the host on the approved network is the one sitting at home. Barack Obama calling Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension an assault on speech collides with the record of pressure on Disney when Roseanne Barr’s tweet became the emergency. The principle cannot be seasonal.Roseanne lost a hit show after one post. The call to Bob Iger was not a seminar in tolerance. It was a reminder that some voices get the First Amendment lecture and others get the phone call. Audiences remember which direction the outrage travels.A standard that protects late-night monologues but treats a sitcom star as disposable is not a standard. It is a preference list. Americans who still want the same rule for everyone can read the two quotes side by side. The gap is the story. Apply the rule evenly or stop pretending it is about speech.