ABC needs to come clean on why it gave Jimmy Kimmel the boot
By Post Editorial Board
Published Sep. 19, 2025, 7:30 p.m. ET
ABC brass should clarify ASAP why they suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show: The utter silence feeds confusion, conspiracy theories and other division.
On Monday’s show, Kimmel all but declared “this kid who killed Charlie Kirk” to be one of “the MAGA gang,” slammed the right for pretending otherwise and “doing everything they can to score political points” from the assassination.
As video of the smear circulated Tuesday among the overwhelming majority of Americans who never watch the show, public fury mounted and complaints started pouring into local affiliates.
And as ABC affiliates were then complaining to the network, threatening to drop the show, Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr warned that the agency would need to “look at” possible “remedies” to the “concerted effort to lie to the American people” about the assassination that included Kimmel’s “truly sick” comments.
Meanwhile, Kimmel was preparing to return to the issue again in Wednesday’s show — not with any kind of apology or retraction, but reportedly with anger at his critics.
Then the Disney-owned network announced the indefinite suspension of the show — with zero explanation.
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