What happened
ABC last night “indefinitely” suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after station owner Nexstar said it would pull the program over comments Kimmel made about the conservative response to Charlie Kirk’s death. Hours earlier, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr had threatened to punish the Disney-owned network if it did not take action against the late-night comedy show.
Who said what
Conservatives slammed Kimmel for saying during his Monday night monologue that 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.”
Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson yesterday that Kimmel’s “lie” about the political beliefs of Kir