Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the air over false comment about Kirk murder

[putnam6]

Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the air over false comment about Kirk murder

What did he say?

https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/entertainm...-comments/
 

Jimmy Kimmel is taking an involuntary hiatus.
ABC has announced that it is pulling the comedian’s late-night talk show off the air “indefinitely” following the host’s controversial comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed to The Post on Wednesday, Sept. 17.

 
Kimmel, 57, faced backlash Monday night after he said that the “MAGA gang” was trying to score political points off Kirk’s murder after the conservative activist was shot dead on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said during his monologue.
Nextstar Media Group, the major broadcast company that serves as a primary affiliate for ABC, further confirmed that it would “preempt” Kimmel’s program in the wake of his incendiary remarks

[UltraBudgie]

Oh no.

[Mantiss2021]

They will slowly increase the temperature of the water...


Is it Soup, yet?

[DBCowboy]

Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the air over false comment about Kirk murder

What did he say?

https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/entertainm...-comments/
 

Affiliates were calling ABC and saying THEY weren't going to broadcast his show.

It mushroomed from there.


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[ANNEE]

Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee:
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other

Bradley L. Smith University of Michigan Law School

The date got me:  1993

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/vie...ontext=mlr

[RichardHurt]

Oh no.

What ever will we do.

[DBCowboy]

I guess peaceful protests work.

[ANNEE]

FCC CHAIR

In June 2017, president Donald Trump nominated Carr to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. As commissioner, Carr initially focused on 5G networks, though he began criticizing social media companies and China over perceived authoritarian policies later in his first term. He was involved in Project 2025 and wrote a section of The Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership (2024).

In November 2024, president-elect Donald Trump named Carr as his chair of the Federal Communications Commission. He took office following Trump's second inauguration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Carr

[DBCowboy]

FCC CHAIR

In June 2017, president Donald Trump nominated Carr to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. As commissioner, Carr initially focused on 5G networks, though he began criticizing social media companies and China over perceived authoritarian policies later in his first term. He was involved in Project 2025 and wrote a section of The Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership (2024).

In November 2024, president-elect Donald Trump named Carr as his chair of the Federal Communications Commission. He took office following Trump's second inauguration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Carr

What does that have to do with individual affiliates not wanting to broadcast something?

[IAMTAT]

The guy was a douche...he wasn't funny...and his show was boring.

What took 'em so long?

Maybe he'll go back to doing 'blackface'...to see if that still works for him.