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Elon Musk re-lays calls from former vice president and former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for years to demand Donald Trump ban on social media Jimmy Kimmel Pulled out of the air.
Harris decides Disney’s decision to pull ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live”. Defend Kimmel and slam the Trump administration’s so-called “complete abuse of power” in a “indefinite” situation.
“What we’re witnessing is a total abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who can speak. From the television networks to the newspapers, media companies are succumbing to these threats.” Harris wrote on X About Kimmel’s suspension. “We dare not remain silent or complacent in the face of this frontal attack on freedom of speech. We, the people deserve better.”
Many X users, including Musk, the owner of the platform, quickly pointed to Harris’ own past statements, and some suggested they seemed to support censorship.
Musk held a 2019 tweet at Harris when Trump first served. Harris, a U.S. Senator representing California at the time, ran for vice president when he posted his post on X (now Twitter).
“To be honest, @RealDonaldTrump’s Twitter account should be suspended,” Harris wrote on September 30, 2019.
Jimmy Kimmel was evacuated from the ABC during Charlie Kirk’s speech. (Melissa Majchrzak/AFP via Getty Images; Michael Le Brecht/Disney via Getty Images)
Musk re-transmitted the message on Friday and added ideological emojis.
Kimmel’s performance was accused of conservatives in trying to fix the left-wing ideology on Tyler Robinson, who was accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, even as prosecutors reiterated the links.
“We had some new lows over the weekend, and the Margot Gang desperately tried to describe the child who murdered Charlie Kirk, except for one of them, and did everything possible to get political points from it.”
There are several questions about the role the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plays in the suspension. Those who questioned the move were on both sides of the aisle, Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned conservatives that they “will regret” set a precedent.
“He means Jimmy Kimmel is lying. It’s true, he’s lying, and it’s not in the public interest to lie to the American people,” Cruz said in an episode of the podcast. “He explicitly threatened – we’re going to cancel the ABC News license. We’re going to take him away, so ABC can’t play it anymore…he threatened it.”
Cruz warns conservatives on ABC’s FCC censorship, other media censorship
About 200 protesters lined up outside Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California on Thursday night to oppose Disney’s pause of ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel. (Christina House/Getty)
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity on September 17.
“The broadcasters are different from any other form of communication,” Carr said, noting that member groups like Nexstar and Sinclair announced that they will no longer bring “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He argued that local stations took appropriate action, saying they “stand up and serve the interests of the community.”
“For years, the FCC has been freed from the enforcement of the public interest obligations,” Carl said. “I don’t think we’re better as a country.”
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr defends ABC branch to pull Jimmy Kimmel with Charlie Kirk’s monologue
Elon Musk resurfaced, at the time a 2019 tweet. D-Calif. Kamala Harris urged Twitter to cancel President Donald Trump’s account. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Randy Holmes/ABC by Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“The decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and cancel his show came from ABC executives,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Saturday.
“This has been reported,” Levitt said. “And I can assure you that it is not from the White House and there is no pressure from the US president.”
this Biden-Harris Administration Has seen a share of its censorship dispute, especially in interactions with social media companies during the Covid-19 pandemic.
exist 2021 Press ConferenceJen Psaki, then white House press secretary, said the government was “tagging Facebook’s problematic posts that spread false information”.
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August 2024, just before the presidential election Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Fungal In a letter acknowledged that the Biden-Harris administration imposed a force to censor Americans on Facebook.
Zuckerberg enrolled in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan for more than a year, providing the committee with thousands of documents as part of an investigation into content reviews on its online platform.
Greg Wehner of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
