The end of the evening host Jimmy Kimmel, addressed comments on Tuesday evening after his show was withdrawn from the tunes for five days for remarks he made about the murder of the founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, but did not apologize.
ABC suspended Kimmel on September 17 after the ownership groups of the Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting station station announced that they would not broadcast “Jimmy Kimmel Live” following the comments that the host made on September 15 following the Kirk assassination. Although Kimmel was not explicitly excused, he seemed to move away from some of the statements he formed during his episode of September 15. (Related: Geraldo Rivera says that Jimmy Kimmel owes the family of Charlie Kirk and excuses “for comments that made him start)
“I want to clarify something clear, because it is important for me as a human, and it is – you understand that I have never intended to shed light on the murder of a young man,” said Kimmel. “I don’t do it – I don’t think there is something funny about it.”
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“I posted a message on Instagram on the day of his death, sending love to his family and asking for compassion and I thought and I always do it,” continued Kimmel. “It was not my intention to blame a specific group for actions either – he was a deeply disturbed individual. He was really the opposite of the point I was trying to do, but for some, who seemed badly in a state or little clear or perhaps both, and for those who thought I would have said a finger, I am angry.
Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolve reacted to Kimmel’s remarks with a post on X before the episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live finished.
“Not good enough. Jimmy, it’s simple,” said Kolvet. “Here’s what you need to say,” I’m sorry to have said the shooter was Maga. It was not. He was from the left. I apologize to the Kirk family for lies. Please accept my sincere apologies. I will do better. I was wrong. “”
Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting did not respond to requests for comments from the Daily Call News Foundation.
Kimmel’s suspension came after other comments that celebrated, mocked or justified the assassination of Kirk took place in various online social media places, in particular on platforms like Bluesky, which led several people, including MSNBC political analyst, Matthew Dowd and the columnist of Washington Post Karen Attiah, dismissed.
“We hit new stockings during the weekend with the Gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points,” said Kimmel during the September 15 episode.
Before the episode of September 15 where Kimmel made the controversial remarks, the republican governor Spencer Cox of Utah described some of the evidence recovered during the manhunt to Tyler Robinson, who is accused of having dismissed the shot that fatally injured Kirk, during a press conference on September 12 and Sunday, ABC is “this week” been Sunday, notably ABC. 14. Several points of sale also reported on the “left” ideology of Robinson and the left slogans engraved on the ammunition in the rifle.
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