Lawmakers react to Jimmy Kimmel suspension

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00:00We know there was federal interference.

00:03When the head of the FCC is talking openly about taking away the broadcast license, then

00:11that is the government trying to exercise censorship.

00:14It's not a question of whether you agree with Mr. Kimmel or disagree.

00:21And I have no problem with it, quite honestly, I mean, one of the things that makes a liberal

00:28a liberal is when they think they're smarter than everybody else and they can say any dang

00:32thing they want because they're so brilliant and everyone ought to listen.

00:35And by the way, if you're not one of those people, you're the liberal that wants somebody

00:37to tell them what to do.

00:39And I think some of these people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are getting what the market wants

00:44and he's getting what he deserves.

00:46I don't know about FCC, but am I concerned about it?

00:50No.

00:51I think that the censorship is spreading like cancer in this country.

00:57we need to speak out now or we're going to sacrifice free expression and the First Amendment

01:02taking Kimmel off the air was not only premature and precipitous, it was a violation of basic

01:14standards of free expression.

01:16ABC made the decision that his comments were inappropriate.

01:21Charlie Kirk was a friend.

01:22He, I was on a show every week and father, husband, he really energized a lot of young

01:32people.

01:33And so, you know, any, any, I don't get, I don't get the inappropriate comments about

01:39anybody's death.

01:40But ABC made the decision.

01:41And there's no doubt that for business reasons, someone can say, I don't want to give you a

01:47platform anymore.

01:48But that's not what happened here.

01:51We saw the government step up and give a hard shove.

01:55And then we saw a compliant company turn around and suspend Mr. Kimmel.

02:03And that truly undermines the whole premise of the First Amendment.

02:09A veiled threat occasionally, maybe, you know, if that's what scares off ABC, maybe they

02:15need a little bit of a scare.

02:19When it comes to the merger itself, I don't know a lot about it.

02:22I do know that the concentration of liberal communications companies isn't great for America.

02:29But again, it's a, it's a nice liberal thing to do, consolidate power.

02:33Really, really worried about it.

02:35I, I'm, I'm just amazed that the powerful entities like whatever the TV station was that

02:39he was on, they just caved so fast.

02:41I, I feel like the, the, the, the wealthy businesses and the leadership class is showing

02:47a complete lack of backbone.

02:49Satire, humor, comedy are the stuff of political expression, not just entertainment.

02:57And this kind of heavy-handed, ham-handed censorship is going to be a whirlwind that will come back

03:07to haunt the chairman of the FCC and others.

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