Jimmy Kimmel Suspended Indefinitely, Are You Scared or Are You Celebrating?
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The debates are fierce today over whether free speech is under attack by this administration and whether media companies are overreacting to avoid losing viewers, losing favor with the administration, and ultimately losing money. There are many who believe this isn’t about free speech, it’s about hate speech, and in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, stopping the rhetoric could be a matter of life or death.
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| 0:42.6 | Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, September the 18th, and last night, Robach and I got a call |
| 0:48.6 | from a media industry executive, a friend of ours. |
| 0:53.8 | And the first words, she said, I'm scared. And with that, |
| 0:58.5 | welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs. I think there are a lot of journalists seemingly |
| 1:03.5 | nervous, running scared, concerned about what we're seeing. And what we've seen now is that Jimmy Kimmel is off the air |
| 1:12.8 | indefinitely. For making comments, it seems, that the president didn't like. |
| 1:17.3 | For making comments that the president didn't like, but didn't seem that out of character |
| 1:25.1 | for Jimmy Kimmel. So I think that's what surprised a lot of folks who actually heard what he said or read what he said and thought that's the response, that his show is canceled indefinitely, first by a media company and then by ABC and Disney all together. |
| 1:44.7 | I think it's not an overstatement to say jaws collectively dropped. |
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