NEW YORK -- David Letterman was ushered into retirement Wednesday by four presidents declaring "our long national nightmare is over" and a succession of stars delivering a final Top Ten list of things they always wanted to say to the late-night host.

Some have been drawing comparison between President Donald Trump’s anti-media campaign, along with the decision to take Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show off the air, and how media has been silenced in other countries.

Kirk didn’t deserve to be felled by an assassin’s bullet — no one does — but Jimmy Kimmel never stated, nor implied, as much. In fact, Kimmel went out of his way on Friday night to distance himself from any sort of macabre gloating over Kirk’s murder.