Vice President Vance said on Wednesday that he got host Jimmy Kimmel late at nightEloquence in their returnA brief suspension on the comments about Charlie Kirk “kind”, but expressed disappointment that Kimmel did not apologize.
“Okay, I looked at it and look, in some way it was kind,” Vance told Nexstar correspondent Reshhad Hudson in a special interview.
“On the other hand he did not actually say sorry to Charlie Kirk or his family,” Vance said, who was close friends with Kirk.
“And so many people, including me, were very upset that Jimmy Kimmel said that he has accused Charlie Kirk’s killer of being a maga, or being a right -wing American. It was not a joke, it was directly disruptive and I really want Jimmy Kimme to apologize for it.”
KimmelReturned to hostSince ABC, his first Tuesday night show gave him a wind on criticism of his comments about Kirk, who was killed earlier this month.
Kimmel had accused Kirk’s death of trying to make “political points” and said that “the Maga gang was trying hard to mark the child, who had killed Charlie Kirk anything other than one of them.” While the suspect in Kirk’s murder came from a politically conservative family, Further report Kimmel’s comments suggested that he had become more political in recent years, shifting to the left.
In Tuesday’s monolithic, an emotional Kimme said that it was “I never intended to make the light of the murder of a young man”. He also pushed back on the censorship and the Trump administration, saying, “The President does not like a government threat to silence a comedian, anti -American.”
The ABC’s decision to remove the Vance from the wind on its previous comments made bipoled criticizing, especially due to the reaction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
FCC President Brendon Car firstDestroyedFor her comments on Kirk, Kimmel suggested that local colleagues left their show, arguing that the program was not working in public interest. Both Sinklair and Nexstar have suspended Kimmel’s show on their ABC colleagues.
Both companies are expected to have major businesses before FCC, and Democrats on Tuesday accused FCC of demanding Nexstar to intimidate, who is the owner of Hill, recently announced a plan to get rival broadcast Tagna.A huge dealThis will require Carr’s approval from FCC.
The Democrats on Tuesday accused FCC of demanding the car to intimidate the colleagues in a letter.
The letter states that both Nexstar and Sinklair “Jimmy Kimmel Live at their stations!
President Trump had earlier urged the ABC that CBS announced the cancellation of CBS that it was ending the “late show with Stephen Collbert”.
Some conservatives have also raised the issue with Carr’s involvement, warning that it is a possible dangerous example.
On Friday, Sen Ted Cruzas (R-Texas) said on his podcast, “I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was expelled.” “But let me tell you, if the government gets into the business to say, ‘We do not like what you have said to the media, then we are going to ban you from airways, if you don’t say what we like,’ This will be bad for the conservatives.”
The Senate majority leader John Theun (RS.D.) told CNN on Wednesday that Kimmel Saga is “not an area that I think FCC should deviate.”
In Wednesday’s interview with Nexstar, Vance dismissed the allegations that the Trump administration was engaged in sensorship or forced ABC or its colleagues to remove Kimmel.
“FCC President Brendon car put out a couple of tweets … We did nothing to actually try to take off Jimmy Kimmel,” Vance told Hudson during an interview in North Carolina. “We believe in free speech. We also believe in a television station or network right to cancel someone due to low rating.”
Vance argued that a better example of government censorship was the Biden administration that urged technology and social media companies to remove the content, including misinformation about Covid-19 epidemic. Vice President cited a decision by Alphabet, the original company of YouTube this weekRestore the creatorsThe first was banned for spreading misinformation about the virus and 2020 election.
“If we are looking for the real sources of the government’s driving sensorship, we should look at the policies of the Biden administration. We fully reject the censorship in the Trump administration,” Vance said. “We do not want to stop anyone from speaking our mind. But if a TV station wants to cancel a man because he is not a funny, it is their business.”
The Trump administration has closed the alarm among the free speech advocates in view of Kirk’s death.
Attorney General Palm Bondi warned that the government will punish those who are engaged in abusive language, commentsShe went backAs conservatives said that such speech is preserved by the first amendment.
Vance urged the public to report to anyone by celebrating Kirk’s death to his employers and vowed to see leftist groups that they have claimed that they had committed violence.
And Trump on Tuesday reacted with anger to Kimmel back to the air, suggesting that he would pressurize the ABC on the decision.
“I think we are going to test ABC on this. Let’s see how we do,” TrumpPostedSocial on truth. “The last time I went after him, he gave me $ 16 million dollars. It seems even more attractive. A true herd of loser! Let Jimmy Kimmel in his bad ratings.”
