{"id":2033519,"date":"2025-09-19T04:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2033519"},"modified":"2025-09-19T04:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:01:25","slug":"this-is-blatant-censorship-by-an-autocrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-is-blatant-censorship-by-an-autocrat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis Is Blatant Censorship\u201d By An \u201cAutocrat\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/09\/colbert-kimmel-censorship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stephen Colbert Defends Jimmy Kimmel: \u201cThis Is Blatant Censorship\u201d By An \u201cAutocrat\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Stephen Colbert Defends Jimmy Kimmel: \u201cThis Is Blatant Censorship\u201d By An \u201cAutocrat\u201d<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Consequence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Consequence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stephen Colbert, unsurprisingly, delivered a passionate defense in support of Jimmy Kimmel during Thursday night\u2019s episode of <em>Late Show<\/em>. According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-kirk-colbert-letterman-trump.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CNBC<\/a>, which attended the taping, Colbert called Kimmel\u2019s suspension \u201cblatant censorship\u201d and criticized it as the work of an \u201cautocrat,\u201d referring specifically to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWith an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,\u201d Colbert told his audience. He also dedicated the evening\u2019s episode to Kimmel and his staff, saying: \u201cJimmy, I stand with you and your staff 100%,\u201d Colbert added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_agt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_agt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_agt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_igt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_igt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_igt56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/live-coverage\/jimmy-kimmels-suspesion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pulled indefinitely;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pulled indefinitely<\/a> earlier this week after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened ABC over Kimmel\u2019s comments regarding Charlie Kirk\u2019s death. Meanwhile, Colbert will <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/07\/late-show-colbert-ending\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lose his own late-night show next May;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lose his own late-night show next May<\/a>. CBS described Colbert\u2019s cancelation as a \u201cpurely financial decision,\u201d though critics have speculated the show may have been sacrificed to help complete Paramount\u2019s merger with Skydance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Popular Posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.activehosted.com\/f\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Subscribe to Consequence\u2019s email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Subscribe to Consequence\u2019s email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post Stephen Colbert Defends Jimmy Kimmel: \u201cThis Is Blatant Censorship\u201d By An \u201cAutocrat\u201d appeared first on Consequence. Stephen Colbert, unsurprisingly, delivered a passionate defense in support of Jimmy Kimmel during Thursday night\u2019s episode of Late Show. According to CNBC, which attended the taping, Colbert called Kimmel\u2019s suspension \u201cblatant censorship\u201d and criticized it as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2033520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[375212,375211,23060,22653],"class_list":["post-2033519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-autocrat","tag-blatant-censorship","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/This-Is-Blatant-Censorship-By-An-Autocrat.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}