Candice Owens and Ben Shapiro, a magazine alliance like Senator Ted Cruz and conservative commentators, warned of government overreach amid calls to fire late-night comedians and indict “hate speech.”
ABC announces Jimmy Kimmel Return in Call of Free Speech
Both citizens and comedians are calling for free speech as Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to ABC after he is suspended.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is facing rare backlash from many Magazine allies over freedom of speech concerns after the assassination of Charlie Kirk as a Republican who is usually reluctant to criticize government’s Overreach’s Trump warning.
The pushback follows Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Kerr’s threat to ABC to elicit comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who is scheduled to return to the air on September 23, following widespread criticism of the ABC’s move and warnings from Attorney General Pam Bondy about indicting “hate speech.”
Trump cheered Kimmel’s brief pause and called out x to host other late-night shows. Other Republican lawmakers reflected concerns and argued that the government should not decide what is appropriate for the airwaves.
“If you carry Jimmy Kimmel’s show, what the federal government does? Does that seem right for you?” Owens said on the podcast. “If you were on the right and you cheered on this, do you understand? We should never praise the federal actions when it comes to speeches. We are all losing. You have to wake up.”
Shapiro said Kimmel was “Schmack, which should have been aired a few years ago.”
However, Shapiro also said, “We don’t want FCC in the business that tells local affiliates that the license will be removed if the FCC broadcasts material that it deems information to be false.
It is due to return to ABC Tuesday night less than a week after Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Walt Disney Company announced it had aired a late-night show of the comedian due to controversial comments about Kirk’s death. However, on September 23, Nexstar Media Group, one of the broadcast television station’s biggest owners, said it remains on its decision not to air Kimmel’s show. Sinclair Broadcast Group has also announced that it will be ahead of Kimmel’s show with its ABC affiliate.
The suspension of ABC’s Kimmel’s show came after Carr publicly threatened to revoke licenses from ABC and its local affiliates if it continued to air late-night programs.
Trump’s close ally, Cruz compared Carr’s tactics to the tactics of the mob boss and denounced the threat of the FCC chairman. “He says, ‘Can we do this easily, or we can do this the hard way,'” Cruz said, referring to Carr, in an episode of his podcast released on September 19th, “It’s just a short time from ‘Goodfellas’. It says, “If anything happens here, it’s a shame.”
Cruz called Carr’s threat “hell-like dangerous” and warned him about the outcome of Democrats returning to the White House one day. “They silence us. They use this power and use it without mercy.”
“It may feel good to threaten Jimmy Kimmel right now, but I regret it when it is used to silence all the conservatives in America.”
Senator R-Indiana praised Cruz’s remarks. “As Americans, we must cherish and protect freedom of speech,” too, too, Sen. Mitch McConnell of R-Kentucky. “There’s no need to like what someone is saying on television to agree that the government shouldn’t be involved here,” said the former Senate majority leader. Republican Sen. Rand Paul called Carr’s warning “absolutely inappropriate” in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Criticism follows the previous Magazine responsibilities after the Justice Department chased “people engaged in hate speech” after Bondi vowed on September 15th.
“Get her off, today,” conservative influencer Matt Walsh wrote to X:
Bondi later retreated her wide threat, writing, “A hate speech that crosses the boundary to the threat of violence is not protected by the initial amendment. It is a crime.”
In response to Kirk’s fatal shooting, White House officials are signaling plans to target liberal organizations accused of promoting political violence. On September 22, White House press chief Karoline Leavitt said Trump would soon take “strong action” against domestic terrorism “dark sauce funding and support.”
In Kimmel’s controversy, Trump suggests that the FCC should go further by considering revoking broadcast licenses from television networks that targeted him with overwhelmingly negative reports. “They give me only bad publicity and coverage,” Trump said. “I think their licenses should probably be taken away. That’s up to Brendan Kerr.”
However, Trump’s idea of expanding the power of the FCC has not been lifted off in the world of Magazine. And the well-known podcasters and influencers who gave Trump a platform before the 2024 presidential election are now accusing him of embracing the “cancellation culture” that the president and his followers once laughed at from the left.
“It’s funny to see people on the right as people on the left,” said Akaash Singh, co-host of the Flagrant Podcast, who welcomed Trump a few weeks before the 2024 election. “From a censorship perspective, freedom of speech is under attack more honestly than ever,” Singh said, following the FCC threat to Kimmel’s show.
fellow co-host Andrew Schultz emphasized that Kirk had a reputation as the first revision absolutist.
“He literally amplified the voices of those he opposed. How do you think he feels about his tragic death being used to silence political opposition?” Schultz said in a recent podcast episode. “Do you think he’ll defend Jimmy’s cancellation? There’s no way. I think he’s furious about it.”
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