ABC announced on Wednesday that “” Jimmy Kimmel Live “would be pre-emphasized indefinitely” following the comments of the Talk-Show host on Maga and Charlie Kirk’s killer during a Monday program. This makes Kimmel the second late evening host to find his program in danger during the second Trump administration following the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.
Kimmel has attracted the anger of the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, for these comments, threatening ABC and the parent company Disney to manage the situation – for fear that the government “act”. Nexstar Media Group, which has more than 200 stations detained or partners in 116 US markets reaching 220 million people, first said that it would preempt “Kimmel” emissions before the ABC declaration procedure itself.
But what did Jimmy Kimmel said exactly about Charlie Kirk who attracted such a reaction? While some reports have qualified Kimmel’s statement to qualify Tyler Robinson as a member of “The Magi Gang”, another way of interpreting it is that political law is to distance itself from the alleged shooter with a moment, while Kimmel’s monologue disseminated him before many details of the opinions of Robinson emerged in text messages and claimed declarations of his family.
“We struck 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 on Monday. You can watch Clip and the full monologue, for yourself below.
We do not currently know what the ultimate fate of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will be. Although the show was removed indefinitely by ABC, it has not yet been officially canceled.
Since the murder of Charlie Kirk last Wednesday, rumors have turned to the identity (in particular political) of the shooter, with politicians, media personalities and social media users who try to establish a potential reason. Before the shooter’s identity was ultimately revealed, President Donald Trump and other members of the Maga movement blamed “the terrorism that we see in our country today” on the rhetoric of the “radical left”.
“It is time for all Americans and the media to be faced with the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree, day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and most contemptible possible way,” said Trump the day of Kirk’s assassination. “For years, those who are on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to the Nazis and the worst murderous and mass criminals of the world. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for terrorism that we see in our country today, and it must stop immediately. ”
Trump was far from being the only one to make such insinuation. Nancy Mace shared an article on X which reads “The left has what happened yesterday”, sharing a video where it says that “Democrats have this 100%”. Donald Trump Jr. said violence “is not going on both directions. It goes in a direction. It comes from those who are aligned with the Democratic Party.”
However, Kimmel’s comments after the assassination were of different temperature.
“Welcome, thank you for joining us here in Los Angeles, the second largest city in our bitterly divided nation where, like the rest of the country, we always try to wrap our heads around the insane murder of the popular podcaster and the conservative activist Charlie Kirk yesterday, whose death amplified our anger, our differences,” said Kimmel to the opening of Thursday. “I saw a lot of extraordinarily vile answers on this subject on both sides of the political spectrum. Some people applaud this, which I don’t understand. We had another school turn yesterday in Colorado, the 100th of the year, and with all these terrible things that were going on. He blamed Democrats for their rhetoric. »»
Several notable members of the Democratic Party, such as Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama and the hope of the town hall in New York, Zohran Mamdani, condemned the use of political violence against Kirk and America.
“We do not yet know what motivated the person who killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of contemptible violence has no place in our democracy,” said Obama on the day of the shooting. “Michelle and I will pray for Charlie’s family this evening, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.”
The details are still unknown on Robinson’s complete identity after his arrest. While some have underlined his parents Maga as an index of his own policy, the Utah state prosecutor Jeff Gray said that Robinson’s mother had noticed a change in her own political position in recent years.
“Robinson’s mother explained that in the past year, Robinson had become more political and had started to look more on the left, becoming more pro-gay and oriented towards rights,” said Gray. “She said Robinson had started to go out with her roommate, a biological man who made sex in transition.
Robinson was accused of seven charges on Tuesday, including an aggravated murder.
