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As we previously reported, Jimmy Kimmel Live was pulled from the air this week amid controversy over the comic’s remarks about Charlie Kirk.

In the monologue he delivered on Monday’s broadcast, Kimmel addressed Kirk’s murder in a way that may have cost him his job.

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” the host said, adding:

“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

It was a rather mild joke directed more at the reaction to the shooting than at Kirk himself.

But it prompted Nexstar Media, the largest local broadcast company in the nation, to remark that it “strongly objects to recent comm

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