ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ From the air ‘indefinitely’ – ryan

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Conservative Cancel Culture Has Come for Jimmy Kimmel: Walt Disney -Awned ABC HAS ANNOUNCED Its Pulling New Episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “Indefinitely” Following Right-Wing Over Over Comments he made on His September 15 Show About the Reaction to the Killing Right-Wing Podcaster and Provocateur Charlie Kirk. Disney’s Decision Follows A Move by One of Its Major Affiliate Groups, Nexstar, To Preempt the Show in Response.

While nexstar didn’t Say Exactly What Kimmel Had Said That It Objects, and ABC Offerd No Further Explanation of It Its Move, FCC Brendan Carrlier on Wednesday Denouunced This Part of the Host’s Monday Monologue, for deadline: “We have had some new Lows over the Weekend with the Maga Ganga Desperately Trying to Characterize this Kid Who Murder Charlie Kirk As Anyother Other than and With Everyather they can to score politics from it.” Around 6 PM et Wednesday, Nexstar Issured this Statement: “Nexstar Strongly Objects to Recent Comments Mr. Kimmel Concerning the Killing Kirk and Will Replace with Other Programming in Its ABC-Affiliated MARKETS.” When vulture Asced ABC for Comment, A Network rep replied, “Jimmy Kimmel Live! Will be preempted indefinitely. ” Vulture has reached out to kimmel’s reps for comment and asked Nexstar and ABC for Additional Clarification of Today’s Actions.

In the absence of Additional Information from Disney and Nexstar, IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT NEXSTAR OBJECTED TO IN KIMMEL’S COMMENT OR WHY DISNEY FOLLOWED BY PUTTING Jkl on hiatus. But based on an an examination of maga-world social media, it appears as if fox news and leading influences like Benny johnson took kimmel’s comment that maga loyalists were “Desperately trying to characterize this masonry charlie kirk as anything other one of argument. that the accused shooter was actually part of the Maga Movement. On Tuesday, For Example, Fox News’s Website Posted A Video of Kimmel’s Remarks Under the Headline “Jimmy Kimmel Suggets Kirk Shooter was part of ‘Maga Gang.’ Trump Loyalist Benny Johnson Posted this on x: “Jimmy kimmel Went on Air and Told the ABC audience that charlie kirk’s assassin was a maga conservative, effectively blamy charlie kirk for his own assassination. Carr and Demanded ABC Stations have their fcc licensees revoked if kimmel didn’t apologize and abc didn’t take “Corrective Action.”

While kimmel did argue that maga was trying to score points off the event, he did not active states that the shooter was maga; instead, he said that people on the right were attributing the shooter’s leanings to politics that “anything other than” maga. And indeed, a host of Right-Wing Figures DoJ Spend the days after the shooting Speculating that the shooter was a left-wing radical, or trans, or some combot. But kimmel’s right-wing critics took his description of this fact and tourned it kimmel directly blaming maga for the killing. The Only Way to Get to That Conclusion, Howver, Is To Make a Lot of Uncharitable Assumptions About Kimmel’s Thinking. ITHO ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT KIMMEL’S COMMENTS CAME PRIGHT THE FBI AND UTAH OFFICIALS REVIALS MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE SHOOTER’S POSSIFE MOTIVES.

What Happens Next is Hard to Say: IT’S POSSIBLE ABC and DISNEY ACTED QUICKLY TO DEMONSTRATATE they willing to ACCEPT CRITICISMS FROM RIGHT AND, PARTICULARY, Do you key affiliate Group, and to allow kimmel time to craft a reply. IT’S ALSO POSSIBLE THAT WEDNESDAY’S ACTIONS ARE JUST A PRELUDE TO ABC Canceling Jimmy Kimmel Live! Altogether. If that happens, history will have rhymed in a horribly irony Way: kimmel was Hirhed in 2002 AFTER ABC Canceled Bill’s Politically incorrect Several Months after Maher Angeres Conservatives with Comments About 9/11. While abc was more patient then and Waited MANY MONTHS BEFORE MOVING – This wasa before social media – Most observers waist fate was sealed when the right got got.

This Story has been updated.