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Bill Simmons, CEO of The Ringer, is the latest sporting personality to weigh on the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel of ABC.
Kimmel accused on Monday, Kimmel accused “Gang Maga” of having reached “the new stockings” in “Teaching to characterize” the suspect of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson “as something other than one of them”.
The president of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, pushed to Disney, the parent company of ABC, to approach the controversy. Simmons noted that Rolling Stone reporting that the leaders of ABC who did not feel Kimmel had crossed a line were afraid of reprisals by the Trump administration.
Carr was appointed by Trump before his first mandate, then again by Biden and once again by Trump after re -election.
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Bill Simmons appears as a guest in Jimmy Kimmel’s show. (Randy Holmes / Disney via Getty Images)
With this report in its rear pocket, noting the potential fusion between Nexstar and Tegna and the involvement of the Trump administration, Simmons described the outside of Kimmel’s “censorship” rather than “cancel culture”, which, according to him, will occur throughout Trump’s presidency.
“”[Kimmel] Can always have this platform where he wants because he is the platform, “said Simmons on his self-named podcast.” And this is the difference in this area. And that’s why I don’t think it’s as scary and terrible as it was this week. Yeah, we are going to have censorship. Yeah, Stupid S – As will see it apparently continue to occur for the next three years. Yeah, the speech is the ugliest it has ever been.
“But I always have the impression that if someone is good enough to have a platform, he can find it. So I hope not to bet against this guy.”
Donald Trump appeared in the Jimmy Kimmel show in 2015. (Randy Holmes / Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
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Simmons wrote for Kimmel’s show in her early days, and their friendship has remained “for 24 years”. Before his rant, Simmons admitted that he was partial with Kimmel “with most things”.
Kimmel’s comments one day came after FBI officials and the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox said Robinson held a “left ideology” And has been more and more 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.
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.
Jimmy Kimmel is organizing his late evening program in Los Angeles. (David Russell / Disney via Getty Images)
Kirk, a father of two 31 -year -olds, was shot dead last week at an event at Utah Valley University. Thousands of people cried his death in vigilles across the United States
The funerals of the influence of the Conservatives are scheduled for September 21 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
