US ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live off air over Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel is back on air.
US broadcast network ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s long-running late night show after threats from the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over comments he made about slain conservative Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, a prominent conservative activist, was shot and killed on September 10 during a debate at Utah Valley University. Authorities announced the arrest of suspected shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, three days later. Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, and witness tampering, and could face the death penalty.
In his Monday night monologue, Kimmel mocked US President Donald Trump’s response to Kirk’s death, and said the “MAGA gang” was “trying to characterise this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them”. He claimed that Republicans were hitting “new lows” in trying to suggest Robinson wasn’t a part of the “MAGA” crowd.
I thought the Trump administration and its allies were all about free speech? Or was I wrong?
Let’s face it, the US late-night talk-tainment format was a family of clones
“It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.” Adolf Hitler
It’s clear we’re entering a dangerous era for free speech with actions like this and the arrest of several members of Led by Donkeys in the UK over the Trump ‘welcome video’ at Windsor Castle.