ABC broadcast affiliate Nexstar removed Jimmy Kimmel from all 32 of their stations on Wednesday after the late night host lied about Charlie Kirk’s assassin.
Disney also pulled Kimmel’s show.
“Disney is pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “indefinitely,” the company confirmed to Fox News Digital,” Fox reported.
“Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that the company’s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show. Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets,” the statement read.
“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” said Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar’s broadcasting division. “Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.”
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Gutfeld: Kimmel Is Done for Calling ‘Kid Who Murdered Charlie Kirk’ MAGA
Tuesday on FNC’s “The Five,” co-host Greg Gutfeld said ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was “done” for claiming the alleged Charlie Kirk killer was “MAGA.”
Co-host Kennedy said, “Last night, Jimmy Kimmel implied the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk was MAGA.”
Kimmel said, “We had some new lows over the weekend, with 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.”
Gutfeld said, “Well, he didn’t imply it. He said it. I might have to watch Kimmel tonight to see what he has to say about this, because if he doesn’t address what he did, he’s done. I mean, this is a great case study, though, of cognitive dissonance. You know, how can such a smart, successful man be so wrong? How can he live in this kind of denial? It’s because he knows he’s wrong. And if you strip that away, what’s left? If you wrestle him away from this delusion that he’s stuck with for years about Trump supporters, about Trump, about Republicans in general, what’s left, what’s underneath that, the realization that you are the bad guy in the movie. You’re not a defender of democracy. You’re a defender of destructive delusions. I mean, I hate to tell you, buddy, but the guy who shot and killed Charlie Kirk was more likely a fan of yours than he was in and in MAGA.”
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Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Charlie Kirk Comments
Charlie Kirk assassin’s peculiar messages to trans lover fuel fears of cover-up: ‘That’s not how young people text’
Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson texted his transgender partner explaining his motive for the shooting, court documents show — but some observers have cast doubt over the ‘stilted’ exchange.
In what turned out to be the pair’s final text conversation, Robinson, 22, told his lover Lance Twiggs, 22, to ‘drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard.’
The alleged shooter had left a note that read: ‘I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it’, prosecutors said.
‘What?????????????? You’re joking, right????’ Twiggs responded.
Robinson said back: ‘I am still ok my love, but am stuck in orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.’
An apparently panicked Twiggs responded: ‘You weren’t the one who did it right????’, to which he said back: ‘I am, I’m sorry.’
Soon after the text exchange was revealed by prosecutors, some social media users noted the awkward, almost scripted nature of the exchange.
In an X post viewed over five million times, conservative commentator Sadie NC said she showed the texts to her 21 and 23-year-old sons, who she says quickly doubted the messages and told her that people their age ‘don’t use complete sentences with correct punctuation.’
The peculiar way the couple talk in their texts has sparked wild conspiracy theories online that they were faked.
Observers noted the text exchange also conveniently mirrors details in the probable cause affidavit.
This included references to engravings on bullets, a rifle wrapped in a towel left in the woods nearby to where the shooter was perched, and his motive to take out Kirk because he ‘had enough of his hatred.’
X user Evan Kilgore says he ran the texts through Chat GPT and claimed it found them to be ‘most likely fabricated’, alleging they are ‘far too detailed, and too incriminating to be real.’
However, Daily Wire MAGA commentator Matt Walsh countered that the text messages may have been planned by Robinson beforehand.
‘The most plausible and sensible theory isn’t that the FBI made up text messages and released them but that the killer and his boyfriend constructed this highly scripted text conversation as an alibi for the boyfriend,’ he wrote, referencing Twiggs.
‘I don’t know that to be the case, obviously. But it’s a highly plausible scenario.’
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