{"id":237959,"date":"2025-09-19T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237959\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:29:12","slug":"supporters-gather-to-protest-kimmel-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237959\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporters gather to protest Kimmel suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators protested outside ABC headquarters in SoHo on Thursday after the network suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show following controversial comments in a monologue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Federal Communications Commission, also known as the FCC,pushed for action following the remarks and ABC pulled the show off the air<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Many protesters said the move crosses a line silencing dissent<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Critics, including President Donald Trump, said the suspension was long overdue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Federal Communications Commission, also known as the FCC, pushed for action following the remarks, and ABC pulled the show off the air.<\/p>\n<p>Many protesters say the move crosses a line, silencing dissent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have a government working this fast to shut down any opposition, we need to be acting just as fast to call it out,\u201d state Assemblymember Alex Bores said.<\/p>\n<p>Bores, who said his parents built their careers at ABC, calls it a national threat.<\/p>\n<p>Others went further, accusing the network of censorship and fascism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe censorship and the fascism at play [are] outrageous. He didn\u2019t say anything really bad about Kirk, and they just shut him down,\u201d West Village resident Kathy Mintz said.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, including President Donald Trump, said the suspension was long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should have fired him a long time ago, so, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>For many protesters, this isn\u2019t just about Kimmel \u2014 it\u2019s a fight over what can be said in America now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a national threat to free speech. I think we should all be up in arms,\u201d Bores said.<\/p>\n<p>ABC hasn\u2019t said whether or when Kimmel will return.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, protesters are calling for a boycott of ABC\u2019s parent company, Disney.<\/p>\n<p>The Writer\u2019s Guild of America is planning another protest Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demonstrators protested outside ABC headquarters in SoHo on Thursday after the network suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,74132,7448,171,21400,5249,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-237959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-arts-entertainment","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-louis-finley","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115228846657230265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}