Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr responded to ABC and affiliate stations’ removal of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after the comedian made remarks about Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination last week.
ABC suspended Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely beginning Sept. 17 after comments he made about Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say they would not air the show and prompted remarks from a top federal regulator.
The veteran comedian made several remarks about the reaction to the conservative commentator’s assassination on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” during his Monday and Tuesday shows, including that the “MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”…
FCC Chair Brendan Carr Says Jimmy Kimmel May Have Misled Public With Kirk Comments
