Republicans such as James Woods celebrate during Democrats censorship.
After the late night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” was discontinued because of the criticism of media reporting on the killing of ultra-right influencers Charlie Kirk, countless people were expressed on the case. Including some Republican voices, which are called the decision of the TV network ABC for good. Above all, the actor and proud Trump supporter James Woods. If it were up to him, Jimmy Kimmel could “eat shit”.
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Right reactions: This is how the Republicans are happy: inside
The dismantling of Jimmy Kimmels Late Night Show caused violent reactions online. Some prominent people, including actress Wanda Sykes or Ben Stiller, were outraged by the setting of the program and suspected a restriction of freedom of expression on the part of the Trump administration. The democratic Senator Ed Markay described the procedure as “censorship in action”. The deputy chief of staff of the White House, on the other hand, sees the discontinuation of the late night show as an example of a supposedly more consistent climate.
Many Republicans: Inside, there were pleased about the deposition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”. The conservative commentator Benny Johnson posted, for example, X: “Thanks to the pressure of the FCC and the fact that Nexstar and Sinclair have removed it from millions of households, his platform is destroyed. He is in the end and will never recover”. He added: “This is not a ‘Cancel Culture’. That is, Consquent Culture ‘. For Charlie Kirk”.
The right -wing conservative activist Laura Loomer fired a wit against the moderator and wrote: “Jimmy Kimmel was just murdered. Who laughs now?”
James Woods reacted particularly “witty”. The once democratic, but now decidedly republican actor, first made comparisons to deal with the political left with the Cancel Culture. In a post on X, he spoke about an essay by Ernest Owens in the US “Rolling Stone” with the title “Why the ‘Cancel Culture’ is good for democracy”. Paradoxically, Woods uses the arguments of the article to justify the deposition of the late night show dripping before censorship.
In another post, he hypocrisies for the moderator, even refers to him as a “acting colleague”. He wrote that he believes that Kimmel was “basically a good and decent person in his heart, free of malice and hatred”, but then ended with: “I’m just joking Jimbo. Friss shit.”
US talk shows: the target of free expression?
It is not the first time that a US talk show was discontinued due to government-critical statements. For example, late night moderator Stephen Colbert also experienced the so-called “culture of consequences” when he criticized Paramount during his broadcast in July that he had settled a legal dispute with Donald Trump over $ 16 million.
Recently, Colbert died of solidarity on September 18 with Jimmy Kimmel. “You can’t give in a centimeter of a autocrat,” said Colbert to the audience. He dedicated the evening show Kimmel and his team: “Jimmy, I am 100 percent behind you and your employees”.
Most recently, former President Barack Obama was concerned about dealing with oppositional voices in the media. “The current government has brought the Cancel Culture to a new and dangerous level by regularly threatening regulatory measures against media companies if they do not silence or dismiss the reporters and commentators to silence or dismiss it,” he wrote on X.
Charlie Kirk was shot on September 10 during a performance on a university campus in the state of Utah. The 31-year-old was considered one of the most influential right-wing activists and as a mouthpiece of President Donald Trump for young people. According to the authorities, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson shot Kirk from one roof. He was arrested and charged by the public prosecutor’s office for murder.