Fox News host Laura Ingraham believed ABC did the right thing in suspending Jimmy Kimmel.
She also believes the suspension is not an example of cancel culture.
Ingraham spoke about Kimmel’s indefinite suspension after a comment he made Monday when he claimed Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was a right-winger, per Mediaite. She was part of a discussion with Fox News contributor Byron York and 2Way founder Mark Halperin.
Ingraham played the remark Kimmel made that sparked one major station group announcing plans to pre-empt Kimmel.
“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,” Kimmel said during his show Monday night, as previously reported by IJR.
“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism. But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.”
Kimmel played a clip of President Donald Trump saying how he was “holding up” after Kirk’s murder. As the audience laughed, Kimmel mocked Trump’s reaction, saying it resembled how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.
Ingraham said Kimmel’s suspension was not an example of cancel culture, per Mediaite.
“Byron, to those who say, ‘Oh, this is cancel culture. Now you’re embracing cancel culture.’ I hit this last night, but I want to give you the chance to hit that ridiculously stupid retort to what we’re talking about,” Ingraham said.
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York said ABC suspending Kimmel was free market at work.
“The market is speaking in this case,” York said. “And obviously making a joke — any joke — about this assassination at this time just seems to be incredibly reckless, and making one based on a libelous falsehood is even worse.”
Ingraham said joking about this is not funny.
“They cease to be funny because they cease to connect with the American people,” Ingraham said of Kimmel and other late-night show hosts. “They should go back and watch [Johnny] Carson and then maybe find their senses of humor.”
