On his show on Tuesday, Kimmel said: \u201cWe had some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Kirk\u2019s shooting, does not appear to be ideologically conservative or a supporter of United States President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n
According to charging documents from prosecutors released earlier, Robinson sent a message to his roommate that he \u201chad enough of [Kirk\u2019s] hatred\u201d.<\/p>\n
Kimmel\u2019s contract with ABC was set to expire next year, and there was speculation about whether it would be renewed, particularly after the announcement in July that CBS owner Paramount would cancel its top-rated late-night show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr criticised Kimmel earlier today, suggesting the federal agency could pull broadcast licences owned by parent company Disney. <\/p>\n
Licences are given to local stations, not networks, and revocations are extremely rare.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d Carr told conservative podcast host Benny Johnson. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carr said he could \u201ccertainly see a path forward for suspension\u201d for Kimmel at the network, something the FCC would have no involvement in. <\/p>\n
Carr has also previously criticised the ABC show The View.<\/p>\n
The decision by ABC is likely to be seen as a concession to network critics. <\/p>\n
In December, the company agreed to put US$15 million towards Trump\u2019s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On his show on Tuesday, Kimmel said: \u201cWe had some new lows over the weekend with the Maga…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6761,1443,68,8172,15308,5782,19765,156,5504,2082,8235,1736,18152,18153,8526,4960,1362,111,139,69,6662,28221,1305,199,1533],"class_list":{"0":"post-28663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-about","10":"tag-air","11":"tag-backlash","12":"tag-charlie","13":"tag-comments","14":"tag-conservative","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-following","17":"tag-for","18":"tag-influencer","19":"tag-jimmy","20":"tag-kimmel","21":"tag-kirk","22":"tag-latenight","23":"tag-live","24":"tag-made","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-newzealand","27":"tag-nz","28":"tag-off","29":"tag-pulls","30":"tag-show","31":"tag-take","32":"tag-will"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}