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Jimmy Kimmel became the second late night host to feel the right\u2019s wrath recently after \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d was put on an indefinite suspension due to the host\u2019s Monday comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s shooter.<\/p>\n
While many of the comedian\u2019s fellow celebrities and entertainment unions are worried about what ABC\u2019s move could mean for free speech under the Trump administration, some pundits on the other side of the aisle aren\u2019t convinced Kimmel is a victim here.<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/figure>\n \u201cJimmy Kimmel lied about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin being MAGA, this caused understandable outrage all over America, prompted TV station owners to say they wouldn\u2019t air him, and he\u2019s now been suspended by his employers,\u201d Piers Morgan stated bluntly on X early Thursday morning. \u201cWhy is he being heralded as some kind of free speech martyr?\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly shared a much longer take on social media on Wednesday night (she had a replacement host fill in for her on her podcast\u2019s AM Update on Thursday).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not sure who needs to hear this but Jimmy Kimmel got on the air and falsely stated as a fact that Charlie Kirk\u2019s killer was MAGA, smearing an entire movement and Trump in particular with a vile disgusting lie \u2014 and at a time when the threat against those on the right is at an all-time high,\u201d she wrote on X. \u201cThis was *after* we knew from the UT gov that the killer had been indoctrinated into LEFT-wing ideology, *after* we\u2019d seen the shooter\u2019s bullet casings reflecting furry\/trans memes, calling Charlie a fascist and w\/anti-fascist lyrics. It was *after* we had learned the shooter was living with his trans-furry boyfriend and believed Charlie Kirk was \u2018full of hate.\u2019 *After* we learned that the shooter was not registered GOP, but \u2018unaffiliated.\u2019 *After* we saw him pull the trigger just as Charlie discussed trans killers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere was zero \u2014 ZERO \u2014 evidence the shooter was MAGA, had ever been MAGA, or was influenced by MAGA in any way. This was an intentional lie to GIN UP HATRED toward the very group of ppl most suffering in the wake of our devastating loss of Charlie and Kimmel did it willfully and even gleefully to a cheering complicit audience,\u201d she continued. \u201cANY EMPLOYER IN MEDIA WOULD SEE HOW DEPRAVED AND SICK THIS WAS. (In 2021 ABC fired Chris Harrison for saying maybe we should judge a Bachelorette contestant\u2019s attendance (years earlier) at an antebellum party by what was considered offensive at the time. FIRED! His career never recovered!)\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Left doesn\u2019t believe ABC was genuinely horrified by Kimmel (& instead attributes this to the FCC threat). That\u2019s bc even they know ABC has no moral core (we agree with you \u2013 it doesn\u2019t). But what the Left doesn\u2019t seem to understand and needs to hear is that MAGA has f\u2013king HAD IT,\u201d Kelly concluded her message. \u201cWe are ANGRY. We are INCENSED watching the L smear us, our ppl, literally getting some of our friends killed (not to mention our president shot and nearly assassinated again weeks later) and then LYING about it. (\u2018Trump faked his injury! He wasn\u2019t actually shot!\u2019 \u2018We have no idea what the motives ever are \u2026 if they are bad for our side!\u2019) I have zero doubt ABC was overwhelmed with absolutely furious calls\/comments\/emails from truly-FED UP viewers, and knew it had crossed a deadly serious line. In short, GOOD RIDDANCE.\u201d<\/p>\n Nexstar, which owns dozens of ABC affiliates, and then ABC parent Disney pulled \u201cJKL\u201d off the air on Wednesday after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to investigate the network. He and President Donald Trump have since celebrated silencing Kimmel online after he went after the \u201cMAGA gang.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Megyn Kelly, Piers Morgan Explain Jimmy Kimmel Suspension From Their POV: \u2018Good Riddance\u2019<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy Kimmel became the second late night host to feel the right\u2019s wrath recently after \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d was put on an indefinite suspension due to the host\u2019s Monday comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s shooter. 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