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<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook<\/p>\n Tweet<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Email Link<\/p>\n LONDON \n Right-leaning podcaster Joe Rogan has chimed in on the suspension of late night host Jimmy Kimmel amid pressure from the Trump administration, saying the government should not determine what comedians say and that conservatives were \u201ccrazy\u201d to support any such interference.\n <\/p>\n \n Disney\u2019s ABC last week took Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late night talk show off the air<\/a> over his comments about the suspected killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But his show returned <\/a>on Tuesday night, ending a nearly weeklong standoff that has raised questions about free speech and the First Amendment.\n <\/p>\n \n Rogan was an influential supporter of President Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI definitely don\u2019t think that the government should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can or cannot say in a monologue,\u201d Rogan said on his podcast.\n <\/p>\n \n He said that if such interference were really happening and conservatives were supporting such behavior they were \u201ccrazy\u201d because eventually they themselves would be the target of such censorship.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe problem is the companies, if they are being pressured by the government \u2013 so if that\u2019s real \u2013 and if people on the right are like \u2018yeah, go get \u2019em,\u2019 oh my God, you\u2019re crazy. You\u2019re crazy for supporting this because this will be used on you,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n \n The controversy started last week when Kimmel said the MAGA movement was trying to score political points by saying that Kirk\u2019s alleged killer was not one of its own.\n <\/p>\n \n In an emotional monologue<\/a> after his return, Kimmel urged viewers to stand up to Trump\u2019s threats and said it was never his intention to \u201cmake light\u201d of the murder of a young man or to \u201cblame any specific group.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The Kimmel controversy underscores how politicized opinions and comments around Kirk\u2019s murder have become, with high-profile campaigns<\/a> urging employers to fire people who make comments perceived as unflattering about Kirk.\n <\/p>\n \n It also comes at a time when the president has gone after media companies, specifically when they displease him, as with a $15 billion defamation lawsuit he filed against the New York Times<\/a>. A federal judge has rejected<\/a> the lawsuit, saying that the 85-page suit did not follow federal rules for filing civil complaints.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in entertainment TV shows Freedom of speech Donald Trump See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link LONDON…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-35151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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