Multiple things can be true:
- Jimmy Kimmel's late night "entertainment" talk show is little more than an anti Trump bitch fest for despaired leftist voters to go for therapy. Hence, not entertaining.
- Kimmel was gaslighting his audience earlier this week by suggesting that Charlie Kirk's assassin was affiliated with MAGA.
- The U.S. government has absolutely zero business meddling into whether or not the company airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! should continue to do so.
The Federal Communications Commission essentially strong arming Sinclair into removing Kimmel's program indefinitely is on par with the Biden administration coercing social media platforms into flagging user posts containing what Team Biden considered "misinformation" (i.e. only women can get pregnant). Both Sinclair execs and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could have (and should have) told the respective presidential admins to pound sand. And there would have been zero legal repercussions had they done so.
If the Trump admin was a little more politically savvy, they would have allowed Kimmel's show to drown in the backlash that was occurring due to his gross misstatement regarding Kirk's murderer.
So if Kimmel was about to go on the air and make things infinitely worse by digging in, I'm actually *not* sure what ABC was supposed to do except yank him. They aren't required to allow him to enrage half of America on their airwaves if they know it's coming in advance. pic.twitter.com/Ue1bwB9v8E
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) September 19, 2025
As you might imagine, the left was engaged in its normal hyperbole regarding this situation. I could post literally scores of tweets conveying such lunacy, but this one from MSNBC's Chris Hayes underscores the left's utter tone deafness.
This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close. https://t.co/uMjEZkIpat
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 17, 2025
I dunno, Chrissy. I say a private citizen receiving a surprise IRS audit after speaking critically of a sitting President ranks higher. Your mileage may vary though.
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