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ABC’s parent company pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air this week after a pair of monologues that many on the right called a calculated smear of conservatives in the raw aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder. The network quietly announced the show would be pre‑empted indefinitely as big affiliate groups and regulators piled on over comments that were widely criticized as irresponsible and inflammatory.
Major local station groups responded fast, with Nexstar and Sinclair refusing to air Kimmel’s program and demanding concrete accountability from the host and the network. Those stations called his remarks “offensive and insensitive” and even pressed for an apology and a donation to the victim’s family and organization, the kind of market pushback the corporate media rarely sees from its own distributors.
Megyn Kelly went further on her program, reporting that Kimmel was getting ready to double down and attack MAGA instead of issuing a genuine apology — a move she framed as a willful politicization of a tragedy for ratings and outrage. Conservatives aren’t buying the “just a joke” defense; Kelly and others rightly pointed out that public facts emerging from the investigation showed no evidence the shooter was a MAGA operative, making Kimmel’s insinuations dangerous and dishonest.
The backlash has not been confined to conservative talk shows — grassroots pressure and calls to boycott Disney and ABC began spreading almost immediately, driven by viewers fed up with one‑sided snark and moral posturing from people who call themselves journalists. When big media celebrities weaponize tragedy against political opponents, they aren’t just insulting conservatives; they’re undermining trust in institutions that still rely on broad public support to survive.
This episode exposes the rot at the heart of legacy entertainment: a sanctimonious class that treats its opinions as gospel while demanding no accountability for the consequences. That’s why local stations and even regulators have had to step in — not to silence speech, but to enforce basic standards of decency and common sense that the corporate gatekeepers have abandoned.
Patriotic Americans should take heart that the system still has checks and balances beyond Hollywood’s echo chamber. Keep pressure on advertisers, demand that networks answer to local markets, and refuse to fund media that treats political violence as a punchline. If conservatives organize and vote with their wallets, the woke grievance industry will find its punch bowl taken away.
