Recommendations of the Editorial team
Margo Price appeared on Tuesday evening in “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with her combative song “Don’t let the bastards get you down”. And it could turn out to be the last music appearance in the history of the late night show.
Printing by Nexstar and Disney
Abc Kimmels showed the program on Wednesday. The reason was comments that the moderator had made in connection with the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk in his monologue on Tuesday. Among other things, Kimmel said some rights tried to make “political capital” out of the assassination attempt. And also showed a clip in which President Trump reacted to a question after Kirk’s death by instead raving about a new ballroom in the White House.
For Nexstar, “America’s largest local TV station group”, this was obviously too much. ABC and parent company Disney gave up the pressure. “Jimmy Kimmel Live is exposed to an indefinite period,” an ABC spokesman told Rolling Stone. He did not call an official reason. (Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, had previously publicly demanded that licensed broadcaster Kimmel’s show should no longer radiate.)
If Kimmel does not return-Trump already explained to Truth on Truth that the show was “sold”-Price’s appearance would be an ironic end of the 22-year term of the show. “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down”, from the current album of the Nashville singer “Hard Headed Woman”, was inspired by Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid’s Tale”, as well as a quote that expressed Kris Kristofferson in 1992, about Sinéad O’Connor after her notorious “Saturday Night Live” presence console. Price began her performance in Kimmel by tearing a sheet of paper with the inscription “Bastards”.
“If this was the last word, I am glad that it was mine”
“I wrote this song three years ago. He started with my anger on the music industry and the people I worked with,” said Price in the summer in Nashville Now-Podcast of the Rolling Stone. “It is funny how this businessman can be very easy to be who sits in a position of power and corrupts the world.”
In an Instagram post on Thursday, Price shared a video of her Kimmel appearance and wrote: “If this was the last word, I am glad that it was mine.”