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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy slammed Jimmy Kimmel for treating his temporary suspension from ABC as a “free speech issue” whereas asserting that the 57-year-old was justifiably punished for his actions.

On Tuesday, Kimmel made his emotional return to host ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ after the Walt Disney Company eliminated the show from the airwaves because of his feedback concerning the public response to Charlie Kirk’s killing. Last week, he accused the “MAGA gang” of “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.”

While struggling to combat back tears during his newest opening monologue, Kimmel insisted that it was by no means his intention to “make light” of Kirk’s assassination. He stopped short of apologizing for his remarks, nonetheless, earlier than clapping back at President Donald Trump for calling for his firing.

“Unfortunately, and I think unjustly, this puts them at risk,” Kimmel mentioned of ABC. “The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from their job. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”

Taking to social media, Portnoy blasted Kimmel for portray himself as a sufferer in a prolonged paragraph eerily just like the format of Trump’s posts on Truth Social. “Here is my last point on Kimmel,” he started.

“If Kimmel came on and apologized like this the day after his remarks he probably wouldn’t have been suspended. But by all accounts he wanted to double down. Again for the billionth time this isn’t a free speech issue. He works for Mickey Mouse on NETWORK TV. Nobody said he was going to jail.

“He was dealing with the consequences of making off color jokes about the murder of a guy who meant a ton to a ton of people and blamed it on the very people who love him the most before the body was even cold.

“So yeah there was outrage that Mickey had to deal with. Then the pendulum swung the other way and they put him back on air. Either way it was never a free speech issue. When you work for somebody else and you offend a ton of people you deal with the consequences. Him framing this as free speech is a joke.”

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Elsewhere in his monologue, Kimmel argued that he didn’t mean to lay blame for Kirk’s killing on any specific group or poke fun at his death. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” he defined.

“I don’t think there’s anything funny about it. I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed sending love to his family and asking for compassion. And I meant it, and I still do. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.

“That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some, it felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset. If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I’d have felt the same way.”