Barstool Sports chief Dave Portnoy is doubling down on his claim that the loss of airtime Jimmy Kimmel is facing is not in any way a free speech issue.
Portnoy took to his X account on Thursday to reiterate that Kimmel is not suffering any loss of free speech at all, despite the fact that his show was removed from the air over the late-night comedian lying and saying that Charlie Kirk’s assassin is a MAGA voter.
“We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them…”,” Kimmel said, characterizing the murderer as a member of MAGA during his monologue on Monday.
In his video message, Portnoy stated that Kimmel’s situation is “not cancel culture” and explained that cancel culture is