Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension for ugly, partisan remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
I’m curious to see what path Jimmy Kimmel will take (“Last laugh as Kimmel is yanked,” Sept. 18)?
The high street: Apologize on to Charlie Kirk’s household, presumably saving his profession on late-night TV.
The low street: Stick to his radical left ideas, hoping it will all blow over.
Unfortunately for him, the choice lies with Disney, and the ability of the purse all the time finishes first.
Sorry, Jimmy, it appears to be like as if you’ll have to do as they are saying, not as you need.
Perhaps you and Adam Corolla can get back collectively and work out a new show.
Sean P. Kelly
Farmingdale
What late-night hosts have forgotten is that their discuss reveals are purported to be leisure, not political information.
Robert Berk
Manhattan
We have a free speech downside.
Donald Trump is understood by associates and foes alike to make false and inaccurate statements frequently to the American people because the president.
But when an opponent who’s a comic —whose employer advantages from a Federal Communications Commission license — criticizes MAGA, nonetheless unfairly or inaccurately, the federal government threatens to drag his community’s license?
As Luke 12:1 says: “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
Christopher Fishkin
Jamaica
While studying The Post’s article on Jimmy Kimmel, I instantly thought I used to be wonderful with ABC yanking Kimmel off the air for his crude remarks over Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
However, on nearer look, even Kimmel has a proper to his free speech, too.
Free speech even extends to silly speech, akin to Kimmel’s.
A non-public entity has the best to fire somebody who says or does one thing detrimental to a company’s image.
I feel ABC ought to pressure Kimmel to make a public apology for his insensitive remarks.
Yanking him off the air simply offers him more energy with all of the loonies on the left.
Sal Giarratani
Boston, Mass.
So one of the great hypocrites of trendy time, the obscenely unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who carried out in blackface and objectified younger ladies earlier during his profession, has misplaced his job.
Gee, that’s a disgrace.
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
So, Donald Trump has bullied Disney and ABC into suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
First Stephen Colbert, now Jimmy Kimmel.
Who will likely be subsequent?
It’s not reassuring to know that Trump threatened an ABC information reporter who requested about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s crackdown on “hate speech.”
Have we forgotten what George Washington mentioned about free speech?
“The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.”
Mike Barrett
Ashburn, Va.
Kimmel was suspended for accumulating too many damaging airings, and never simply his insensitive monologue about Charlie Kirk.
ABC’s higher-ups have been searching for a purpose to rid themselves of the not-funny “comedian.”
Thomas Deering
Yonkers
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It’s about time ABC woke up and put an finish to lies, just like the one Kimmel mentioned on air.
Stretching the reality is one factor, however outright mendacity shouldn’t be tolerated.
Now get “The View” off the air, too, and show that you simply imply business.
Barry Smith
Watermill
In at present’s polarized climate, details and reality appear to have no that means.
The far left merely makes up something that matches its narrative, and (with the help of prepared media, academia and leisure venues) simply keep spreading it round.
As Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels reportedly mentioned: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Max Wisotsky
Highland Park, NJ
If Kimmel is so upset about being pulled off air, perhaps he ought to be a part of Rosie O’Donnell and transfer to Ireland.
Better but, they each may give up their citizenship right here.
Kim F. Cody
Whitestone
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