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Conservative critic SE Cup praises Jimmy Kimmel after Jimmy Kimmel Live! It was placed on an indefinite break.
The 46-year-old political commentator praised Kimmel, 57, for treating her with “full respect” in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel Live! In 2018, disagreements continued to occur with adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who appeared on the show.
“This photo didn’t come out of the thin air overnight,” she wrote on Instagram on September 19th along with a photo of herself smiling at the show. “Jimmy and I didn’t know each other, and we were engaged in a war of words that were previously somewhat controversial from our respective television perches.”
The Cup said Kimmel invited her on a talk show “rather than continuing the hostility,” saying, “he wasn’t necessary and could have used it as an opportunity to dress me up, put it there, or turn the audience into an enemy to me.”
She explained that the appearance “smashed the barrier rather than maintaining it.”
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“It was a generous and kind overture that I never forgot,” Cup said. “And at that moment we saw each other as people, as parents, as equal contributors to the national conversation. This is a model. We invite more speeches, invite people you disagree with, and find common areas.”
“You can stand up for the people and things you support and do all this. It doesn’t have to be everything. It shouldn’t be. Free speech is our American gift, rights and privilege. Jimmy celebrated it.”
She said the decision from ABC was “between “sad and scary days, so many sad and scary days.”
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In 2018, Cup said he believes Daniels’ relationship with Donald Trump was released in the same year, and that he thought it wasn’t fair to people, including Monica Lewinski, on the Kimmel show.
“(Cup) hinted that this booking is not fair to Republicans. Well, that’s actually a great point and she’s right,” Kimmel said in his talk show, according to Page 6. “This is yet another example of biased liberal media where people like Monica Lewinski refuse to be on their shows.”
He was cut off by a video of Lewinski’s appearance on his show. He teased that he had her “once once” before her appearances were shown twice more.
Cupp’s comments come right after a Disney ABC spokesman confirmed that Jimmy Kimmel is live! It was the move that came after Kimmel’s comments about Kirk, who was fatally shot while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University on September 10th.
On the September 15th episode of the talk show, the comedian said:
Before the episode, Kimmel expressed his sadness towards Kirk’s family on social media. “Instead of an angry finger point, can we just agree that shooting other humans on behalf of our family is a scary and monster?
In a statement, Nexstar Media, the largest local broadcasting and digital media company in the United States, shared that it “strongly opposes Kimmel’s recent comments on the murder of Charlie Kirk, replacing the show with other programming in the ABC-related market.”
The company recently announced plans to acquire rival broadcaster Tegna for $6.2 billion for $6.2 billion, bringing Nexstar to 80% of American television-owned households, according to a press release. The acquisition will require final approval from the Federal Communications Commission, managed by Trump.
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FCC Chair Brendan Kerr praised the Nexter for putting pressure on ABC to pull Kimmel’s show, posting “It’s important that the broadcaster pushes back Disney programming, which they have determined are not reaching the value of the community.”
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Following the announcement, President Donald Trump weighed Kimmel in hibernation and called it a firing.
“Jimmy Kimmel was fired for having a worse rating than anything else, and he said some horrible things about a great man named Charlie Kirk,” Trump said. “Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person, he has a very bad review and they should have fired him a long time ago.”
Meanwhile, Wanda Sykes, comedians Mike Barbilia and Ben Stiller have expressed disagreement with social media moves, but former President Barack Obama was one of the politicians who shared their thoughts the following day.
