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Originally Posted by blankall
Late night talk shows on network television are dead/dying anyways. Kimmel's ratings, like all the other big talk show hosts, were slowly falling before this debacle. Personally, I haven't watched network television late night talk shows in years.
Conan O'Brien was pretty successful going out on his own. He has been more successful both financially and in terms of viewership with his podcasts. Its probably just time for Kimmel to move on from network television as a medium.
It's obviously kind of a shame that Kimmel's show, after over two decades on the air, is being pulled for BS reasons. This is kind of on brand for Disney though, who seem to constantly want to play both sides and produce the most generic product possible.
There's a good chance Kimmel was actually wrong, and the shooter wasn't a MAGA supporter, but the correct course of action there would be for Kimmel to clarify/apologize for his inaccuracy, not for him to be fired for stating a political position.
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He didn't even say the shooter was a maga supporter. He was saying MAGA was trying to make political points by coming out hard that he was a radical lefty and not one of theirs, and then showed a clip of how devastated Trump was. He didn't disparage Kirk, He didn't say the shooter was a MAGA supporter. When he made those comments there was no clear indication of any political leanings of the shooter