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On Wednesday, the former Cincinnati Reds star Zack Cozart applauded Disney’s decision to withdraw the actor Jimmy Kimmel after the controversial comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Disney confirmed to PK Press Club Digital that “Jimmy Kimmel Live d’ABC!” was drawn “indefinitely”.
“The tide turns,” wrote Cozart on X, “keep the pedal with metal.”
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Cincinnati Reds the Zack Cozart (2) Corret Cop against the Miami Marlins at the Great American Ball Park. (Aaron Doster / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Kimmel accused the conservatives of having reached “new stockings” on Monday trying to pinpoint a left -wing ideology on the 22 -year -old suspect, Tyler Robinson, even if the prosecutors reaffirmed these links during the indictment on Tuesday.
“We have 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,” said Kimmel.
Kimmel’s remarks immediately sparked a counterpoup when they one day came after the FBI officials and the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox said Robinson held a “left -wing ideology” and was increasingly radicalized in recent years. It was also revealed that he had a romantic relationship with a transgender partner who was biologically male and going to a woman.
The president of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, then published a threat to Disney if it did not relate to the controversy.
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Jimmy Kimmel, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” During the program on June 16, 2025. (Randy Holmes / Disney via Getty Images)
Appearing on Wednesday “The Benny Show”, Carr called Kimmel’s comments “some of the most sick behaviors” and suggested that there were potential “avenues” that the FCC could continue.
“In some districts, there is a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people on nature … of one of the most important acts of public interest that we have seen for a long time in what seems to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play in this story that it was somehow a Maga or a motivated republican person,” said Carr Benny Johnson.
Nexstar Media Group, which has hundreds of television channels, announced earlier that it would preempt Kimmel’s program on its ABC affiliates from Wednesday evening “in the foreseeable future” and would replace it with other programs on its comments on Robinson.
Kirk, 31, was shot dead last week when he speaks during an event at Utah Valley University. Thousands of people cried his death in vigilles across the United States
The funeral of the conservative influence is scheduled for September 21, in Glendale, Arizona.
