Kimmel Returns: Was it a PR Stunt?
Sekulow
Jay Sekulow
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In a shocking reversal, Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air tonight. Did ABC executives cave to the mainstream media and Hollywood elites? The Sekulow team discusses Kimmel’s suspension being lifted, the vile comments he made about Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump’s supporters, the ongoing debate over free speech, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | As Jimmy Kimmel returns night to ABC, the big question wasn't all just a big PR stunt. |
| 0:06.7 | Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever. This is Seculo. |
| 0:13.7 | We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secular. Welcome back to Seculo. Will Haines |
| 0:28.0 | is joining me in studio. This is Logan Seculo. Pact show today. Rick Rennel's going to be |
| 0:31.9 | ending our show later on, and Mike Pompeo will be joining us in a few segments. You want to stay tuned |
| 0:36.4 | for that. As phone lines are open for you, of course, we're reporting again on the news of the Jimmy Kimmel situation as Jimmy Kimmel will return to air yesterday. You may have remembered when I was, or not yesterday, tonight. Yesterday when I was on the show, I got ahead of myself. On the show, people said, what do you think Jimmy Kimmel canceled? and I said, I think he'll be on air by the end of the week. And I even said, I wish I'd put money on it. |
| 0:58.0 | And now I really do wish |
| 0:59.0 | I had put money on it because Jimmy Kimmel has been reinstated. Jimmy Kimmel Live, which was |
| 1:04.4 | never canceled, was suspended. Production was suspended indefinitely. |
| 1:11.6 | Now when you put the word indefinitely on it, |
| 1:13.6 | that is the spin problem, because that sounds like that could last forever. |
| 1:17.6 | It's like when a band goes on permanent hiatus or whatever it calls, |
| 1:20.6 | like it just feels like a version of not saying we're broken up. |
| 1:25.6 | Now, Jimmy Kimball returns tonight, but sort of the big swerve |
| 1:28.5 | is that both Next Star and Sinclair Broadcasting, which again holds a massive amount of the |
| 1:36.1 | affiliates, which is actually what you're watching. When you're watching ABC in your local market, |
| 1:40.8 | you are not watching ABC. You're watching ABC programming on an affiliate station. |
| 1:46.6 | I know it can get a little confusing, a little hairy. |
| 1:49.0 | Now, most of the time to have a deal with ABC or have a deal with these networks, they do |
| 1:54.3 | have to carry the primetime main programming. |
| 1:57.3 | However, late night has actually always been one of those things that has gone in and out. |
| 2:03.2 | Jimmy Kimmel, at certain markets is on at 11. |
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