Greetings on this Tuesday, September the 23rd, 2025.

Welcome to the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum.

I'm Chris Elkins' narrator, voicing today's daily article written by our cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison.

Jimmy Kimmel Live will return to the air tonight.

The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, said in a statement, quote,

last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further

inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.

It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.

The statement added,

We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,

and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday, end quote.

For more on the story, see Dr. Ryan Didison's daily article titled Jimmy Kimmel suspended for comments on Charlie Kirk's Killer.

Find a link to it in today's episode notes.

The controversy over Kimmel's suspension illustrates the partisan fault lines to fighting our country.

According to a new poll, Democrats are far more likely to watch late-night talk shows than Republicans or independents.

This explains why late-night talk show hosts are negative toward President Trump and Republicans,

while sympathetic toward Democratic Party leaders that are playing to their

audience. However, confining themselves to one part of the electorate defines their audience,

further reinforcing their bias and that of those who watch them. By contrast, Johnny Carson,

widely known as the King of Late Night, explained many years ago that he was not there to deal with political issues.

Quote, once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling and try to sway people, he said, adding,

I don't think you should as an entertainer. Jay Leno made the same point recently.

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