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The former host of ESPN and MSNBC, Keith Olbermann, has extended his torrent of controversial attacks on social networks this week, this time targeting the current ESPN star, Stephen A. Smith.
Smith weighed on ABC’s decision to withdraw Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely for the recent remarks on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, during an episode of his podcast on Thursday. Smith criticized his colleague from Walt Disney Corporation, Kimmel.
“Where was the joke? Because you are a host at the end of the evening – and obviously, that has a comic attachment. Where was the joke? Obviously, it was not funny about this,” said Smith about the joke of Kimmel who had him removed.
Olbermann condemned Smith for criticizing Kimmel, suggesting that sports expertise “will prostitute himself to the right wing”.
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After the assassination of the conservative icon Charlie Kirk, Stephen A. Smith spoke of the airing of Jimmy Kimmel on the comments on the shooting. (Getty Images)
“You just have to add to what has been true for years: [Stephen A. Smith] is an idiot f — ING. And now he feels money prostituting and collaborating with the right, “wrote Olbermann in an article on X.
Olbermann has been examined in recent days for a controversial post targeting Kirk and Sinclair Broadcast Group criticizing Kimmel.
Olbermann responded to the declaration of Sinclair, who said that Kimmel’s suspension From his show ABC at the end of the evening was “not enough”.
Sinclair asked ABC to remember a memory for Kirk instead of Kimmel’s show after the conservative influencer was killed last week.
“Burn in Hell, Sinclair,” wrote Olbermann on X. “Alongside Charlie Kirk.”
Social media users have criticized Olbermann’s message.
The former MSNBC word chief continued to share reflections on Kimmel’s situation. He referred to the remarks that led to Kimmel’s discipline, displaying that “nothing Jimmy Kimmel, was false”.
The Liberals rage while ABC draws Jimmy Kimmel out of the air after the comments of Charlie Kirk Assassin
Keith Olbermann posted on X that Charlie Kirk should “burn in hell” after the conservative icon and the father of two children of two children, he was murdered during a university event in Utah. (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)
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.
Smith, while criticizing Kimmel’s joke, expressed his sympathy for the “actor” but has always insisted on Kimmel’s antagonism towards President Donald Trump is not “wise”.
“To hear Jimmy Kimmel’s news removed the tunes, I was not happy with that. Not at all,” said Smith. “Because I think he is a good man. I think her heart is in the right place. I think he has rendered incredible service to the ABC and Walt Disney family that extends over decades.
“I certainly hope that in the end, it ends up with return, and if it does not end up with the air, I hope it lives a very long and well and prosperous life.
“After saying all of this, it does not mean that I do not have the right to say that what happened between him and [President Donald Trump] does not seem to be the wisest movement in the world. “”
Jimmy Kimmel organizes his late evening program in Los Angeles before being suspended for comments on the murder of Charlie Kirk. (David Russell / Disney via Getty Images)
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.
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
Kirk funerals are planned for Sunday in Glendale, Arizona.
