ABC Taks Jimmy Kimmel off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments, Prompting Wave of Support for Host
ABC Shocked The TV Industry Last Night by Pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! Off Air Under Pressure from the Trump Administration, Prompting Anxiety Over State Censorship and A Wave of Support for the Late-Night host. Earlier wednesday (September 17), Brendan Carr, The Trump-Appointed Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HAD Threatened the Network with Retaliation if it did not work is Jimmy kimmy for a joke, on monday nonday ntight, thrat Linked. Kirk’s Allegated Shooter with “The Maga Gang.” Celebrities Including Ben Stiller, Wanda Sykes, and Jean Smart, As Well As Unions Such As the Writers Guild of America, Strongly Criticized ABC’s Decision.
In the comments for which he is under fire, kimmel said that “the maga gang” was “Desperately trying to characterize this kid who murthed charlie kirk as anything other one of the saying and doing they can to score political points from it.” He Added, “In Between the Finger-Pointing, there was grieving.”
Carr, interview on a right-wing podcast on wednesday, Said kimmel’s remarks were part of a “Concerted Efffort to Lie to the American People.” The FCC, he added, “Have remedies that we can look at.”
Conservatives have portrayed kirk’s al The allegated shooter, Tyler Robinson, as a politically motivated Radical Leftist, but analysis of His communification a more ambiguous picture. Robinson’s Mother Told Prosecutors That Her Son Had Recently Become “More Pro-Gay and Trans-Rights Oriented.” But, as a ken clippenstein investigation Uncovered, some of Robinson’s Friends Questioned the Notion that His Beliefs on Sexuality Represent A Wider Left-Leaning Position, For Instance, HIS Support for the Second Amendment.
Some of the Strongest Condemnations of ABC’s Decision Came From Unions: The Writers Guild of America (WGA), The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television Artists (Sag-Aaftra). Their storms criticized both the government and abc, a network Owned by the walt disney company. Disney’s Chief Executive, Bob Iger, and Television Chief, Dana Walden, Made the Decision to Suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live!Told Sources The New York Times.