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Piers Morgan Uncensored

“DEEPLY Unconstitutional And Immoral!” Jimmy Kimmel Sparks Free Speech Debate | With Bill O’Reilly

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Sports, News, Society & Culture

3.7651 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Since ABC took Jimmy Kimmel off the air for his insensitive comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the US has found itself in a vexed debate on free speech. TV stations said they’d refuse to air his show; forcing the network to make the choice - but, after receiving a huge backlash and mass boycott of their streaming services, they have now only just announced Kimmel will be reinstated. Does Kimmel deserve to carry on doing what he does after his comments? Joining Piers Morgan to discuss is author of the new book ‘Confronting Evil’ and host of No Spin News, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News contributor Kat Timpf, comedians Adam Friedland and John Fugelsang and Jeff Dye plus CEO of Timcast Media, Tim Pool and editor-in-chief of Semafor, Ben Smith. Piers Morgan Uncensored is proudly independent and supported by: Oxford Natural: To watch their full stories, scan the QR code on your screen or visit https://oxfordnatural.com/piers/ to get 70% off your first order when you use code PIERS. Cozy Earth: Luxury shouldn't be out of reach. Go to https://cozyearth.com/PIERS for up to 40% off Cozy Earth’s best-selling temperature-regulating sheets, apparel, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

To this day, I don't know why he said what he said.

0:03.6

So something about this says to me that Kimmel wanted this to happen.

0:08.2

Bob Eiger jumped up on his desk and started tap dancing when this controversy started

0:12.2

because it gave him a morality clause breach against Kimmel to terminate his contract a year early when he's losing money.

0:18.7

What we need to do is we need to not be killing each other, okay?

0:21.9

And it's not Jimmy Kimmel's responsibility to deliver that message.

0:26.1

It's the government's responsibility is the president's responsibility.

0:29.9

If you think that this whole FCC thing is just a coincidence out of all the things that

0:34.3

Jimmy Kimmel's ever said about conservatives, then let me know.

0:36.9

It's grotesquely against the First Amendment, and these guys are not going to look good

0:42.1

in the history books for doing.

0:43.4

Is there any way back for Kimmel at ABC, do you think?

0:47.9

America in the world is still reeling for one of the most significant assassinations in half a century.

0:52.7

Politics, sadly, is inevitable.

0:54.8

And amid the finger pointing over the excessive reactions on both sides,

0:58.4

the United States is now navigating a vex debate on free speech.

1:02.1

ABC has taken Jimmy Kimmel off there indefinitely for saying this.

1:06.9

Some new lows over the weekend,

1:08.7

with the Maga Gang 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.

1:20.0

Kimmel's comments were undeniably crass, inaccurate and insensitive. TV stations said they'd refused to air his show, forcing the network to make a choice.

1:28.9

As with Colbert's late show, this was an expensive production with falling ratings. It's frankly

1:33.8

impossible to imagine a time in the past decade when a network host would not have been cancelled

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