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The Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, denied on Saturday that the late-evening television presenter Jimmy Kimmel was suspended due to the pressure from the Trump management, even after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr’s threat, was drawn from ABC.
“The decision to relieve Jimmy Kimmel and cancel his show came from ABC executives,” said Leavitt in Fox News’ Saturday in America.
“It was a decision made by ABC because Jimmy Kimmel knowingly decided to lie to his audience about the death of a highly respected man when our country is in a state of grief,” added Leavitt. “It was a decision he made, and he is now facing a consequence for this decision and for this lie.”
Kimmel was not fired by ABC.
His long -standing show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Was pulled out of the air on Wednesday “for an indefinite period” after Kimmel is connected to President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
“The Maga gang desperately tries to characterize this child, which Charlie Kirk murdered as anything but one of them and did everything to make political points out of it,” said Kimmel.
“There was grief between the finger,” he added.
After considerable pressure from the FCC chairman Carr, who said Kimmel’s joke seemed to “mislead” the American public about the facts about the murder of the conservative activist and suggested that Kimmel’s wit “mislead”.
On Wednesday, the FCC Commissioner announced that the right-wing commentator Benny Johnson said that Kimmels could “really” form the basis for a “strong action” against ABC and Disney.
“This is currently a very, very serious problem for Disney. We can do this in a simple way or on the hard tour,” said Carr to Johnson. “These companies can find paths to take measures against Kimmel, or there will be additional work for the FCC in front of us.”
“You have a license granted in FCC, and this is obliged to work in the public interest,” said Carr.
At CNBCs “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday Carr said that the FCC was “not yet” changes to the media landscape. Carr, who was appointed FCC chairman by Trump, took over the role in January.
Trump himself has also proposed that the federal government is revoked the licenses of Broadcast televisions who are “against” against him.
Nexstar Media GroupThe country’s largest local television group said that her stations associated with ABC would prevent Kimmel’s show after the remarks “for the foreseeable future”. Sinclair Broadcast GroupAnother television station holder also followed the example.
Kimmel’s fate at ABC is still in the air, such as conversations with Disney According to reports. In ongoing discussions with Disney and ABC’s managers, the late night host is about the conditions under which his long-term show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Could return to the air after Variety, cited the people who were familiar with the matter.
There is no guarantee of Kimmel and Disney will achieve an agreement, the report says. After the suspension, ABC broadcast repetitions of “Celebrity Family Feud” in Kimmels slot.
Kirk was killed on September 10 when he spoke on a college campus in Utah. His influence on the younger conservatives helped Trump to secure his presidency, which was popular with the president for conservative activists.
ABC and Disney are under fire from all sides according to the episode. Conservative commentators who reduced Kimmel’s comments described the suspension as a result of the “consequence culture”, while liberals said that the Republicans had involved in the “abort culture” that they had to despise.
Many went to protest against the lock of the year of the year. The Comments of the White House, Leavitt’s comments on Fox, were partially refutable compared to the post of former President Barack Obama on “X”.
“After years of complaint about the cancellation of culture, the current administration has brought it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening the regulatory measures against media companies, unless they ended up, or fire reporters and commentators that they do not like,” wrote Obama.
On Friday, the former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Kimmel supported and said in a social media contribution about “X”: “Where did the whole tour went?”
“Perhaps the constitution should have said:” The congress does not ensure the freedom of speech or the press outside of the political or financial self-interest of the press, “wrote Eisner.” For the recording, this ex-CEO Jimmy Kimmel is very talented and funny. “
The New York MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for Kimmel’s reinstatement on Friday and said on the social media platform “X”: “Disney/ABC is the responsibility to refuse to take corruption.”
Many actors, writers and creative people in Hollywood have criticized the suspension. On Thursday, hundreds of Burank, California, took part in a protest organized by the Writers Guild of America and the Burbank group and carried signs with slogans such as “defense of freedom of speech” and “ABC bends the knee to fascism”.
Elsewhere, a man was arrested on Friday after shots on a lobby window at the ABC -Aaffiliate station in Sacramento, California, had been fired, the police said. A spokesman said the motif was still examined.
The Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas was one of the most unlikely of Kimmels followers after comparing the comment from FCC, Carr of FCC in connection with the late night host of the mafia. “He says: ‘We can do it in a simple way, or we can do it on the hard tour … that’s directly from Goodfellas,” said Cruz about Carr.
“Let me tell you when the government goes to the business: ‘We don’t like what you said in the media, we will ban them from the air waves if they don’t say what we like.” It will be bad for conservatives, “said Cruz.
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