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Consider their silence broken.

On Monday morning, The View aired a new episode and finally addressed the controversy behind ABC yanking Jimmy Kimmel off the air last week.

The panelists had previously been criticized for not speaking out on such a salient topic, with many observers wondering if they had been ordered to stay quiet by their corporate bosses.

To open the program, host Whoopi Goldberg said she and the others on stage “took a breath to see if Jimmy [Kimmel] was going to say anything about it” first, adding:

“I mean, look, did y’all really think we were not gonna talk about Jimmy Kimmel? I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? You know, no one silences us.”

Referencing CBS recently deciding to cancel Stephen Colbert ,

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