That prompted Nexstar, the nation’s largest tv station proprietor, to drag Kimmel’s present from their almost 200 native channels.
While critics fearful about what the transfer meant for the way forward for free speech, President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters celebrated Kimmel’s ouster.
In a livid screed on X, previously Twitter, Megyn Kelly accused Kimmel of “smearing an entire movement” with a “vile disgusting lie,” whereas claiming the “threat against those on the right is at an all-time high.”
“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,” she wrote, including that any media group would have sacked Kimmel for his remarks.
Ben Shapiro glibly responded to somebody suggesting main ABC and Disney expertise strike in help of Kimmel by saying, “Don’t threaten us with a good time.”
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh stated the late night time host was merely handed the identical destiny as conservatives fired for controversial feedback in years previous.
“These are the repercussions that conservatives have been experiencing for years for infractions not nearly as egregious,” he wrote on X. “Good riddance, Kimmel, you disgusting scumbag.”
White House insider Laura Loomer was surprisingly flippant given the context, posting, “Jimmy Kimmel’s career just got assassinated. Who is laughing now?”
Rage-bait peddler Libs of TikTok weighed in with a repost from conspiracy-theory-enthusiast Roseanne Barr, who responded to a Kimmel supporter saying, “Yeah imagine an administration putting pressure on a television channel to fire a comedian they didn’t like.”
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While conservatives have been adamant Kimmel’s feedback have been clear grounds for dismissal, a Wednesday night time report from Rolling Stone reported that a number of senior ABC and Disney executives went to bat for the late night time host, who they believed “had not actually said anything over the line.”
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