While President Donald Trump famous Jimmy Kimmel Live! Suspension by ABC for the viral remarks of Charlie Kirk of the host Jimmy Kimmel, other notables and political characters from Hollywood slam the network’s decision.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is one of those who call ABC Move an attack on freedom of expression, writing on X, “buy and control media platforms. Read to commentators.
ABC announced Wednesday Jimmy Kimmel Live! Would be “pre -emptied indefinitely” after the president of the Federal Communication Commission Brendan Carr condemned Kimmel for having declared during his show on Monday evening that he suspected the assassin of Kirk Tyler Robinson was a Republican Maga.
“We hit new stockings during the weekend with the gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points,” Kimmel said during his opening monologue. Afterwards, Carr also threatened to take action against ABC’s affiliates for Kimmel’s remarks.
In response to ABC’s decision, Michael Kosta, an actor and one of the The Daily ShowThe rotating hosts, underlined the first amendment in its Instagram history, adding: “It is a serious moment in American history. The television networks must repel. This is a full BS.”
Hacks Star Jean Smart shared on Instagram: “I am horrified by the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live. What Jimmy said was freedom of expression, not hate speeches. People seem to want only freedom of expression when it suits their agenda. Although I do not agree with Charlie Kirk; His death that made me sickly.
In an Instagram video, the actor and actress Wandy Sykes blamed the suspension of “complaints from the Trump administration”. She added: “Let’s see, he did not end the Ukraine war or resolved Gaza during his first week. But he ended freedom of expression during his first year. Hey, for those who pray, it’s time to do so. I love you, Jimmy.”
Alex Edelman, writer, actor and star on Paper, Also writes on X: “It is the culture of real cancellation that everyone claims to hate so much.”
The actor and actor Paul Scheer wrote on the sons, responding to a video of the commentator of Fox, Brian Kilmeade, calling for the death of the mentally ill-owned home, “so let me understand.
As the first of his new film Him took place just in front of Kimmel’s theater on Wednesday evening, said actor Tim Heideker THR“It’s a dark and dark moment. I think it’s very frightening; it happens very quickly and we see the results of the election of a fascist and what it does to live under a fascist diet. I am sure that Jimmy will be fine, but it is very frightening and that we can do the way or the way I don’t know the way. My thing but it’s ok, I should be able to say what he wants.
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