‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Hollywood Rally insists at Disney not to bend for Trump
Only an hour before ABC announced that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Would return to the air waves on Tuesday, a group of politicians and Hollywood Guilders held a press conference and meeting for the Hollywood studio of the show to encourage Disney to reduce the show.
“The allies of Trump think that the first amendment will be supplied with an asterisk,” said Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Calif. District 30). “They think it means that it will get free speech as long as Donald Trump likes it. But he cannot remain silent. He cannot tell the American people what they should say or what they can and cannot listen to … This is not just about a late night show. World where the government can tell them what to say.”
Friedman took a large copy of the first amendment and added: “You may not cancel the Constitution of the United States, not today, not tomorrow, not on our watch.”
The press conference did not go out without a towbar; A Trump supporter with a microphone speaker tried to drown out the event; Then visitors shouted “Free speech!” Later, a low -flying Fox 11/KTTV helicopter, who received video from the event, is also a few speakers drowned out.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif. District 32) tried to point out that the extreme right-wing Charlie Kirk has now been praised as an absolutist free speech darom was Muzzling Kimmel in mind hypocrite.
“This Mafia administration is so daring that they put the language of the Mafia in sight,” he said. “What this administration does, what Brendan Carr is to undermine Charlie Kirk’s words. Charlie Kirk said that you should say scandalous things. There is Schurkenstaat, there is bad speech, and it is all protected by the first amendment. Jimmy Kimmel did not have to contradict the words of Charlie Trump.
Sherman then said that, as a citizen, he was planning to boycott and companies that advertised on ABC at 11:35 pm was not brought back when Kimmel was not returned. He also said that if Kimmel returned, he would support those advertisers – what is probably what he will do now.
“The first amendment is about what we do as a government, and the government should worry, but we are also private citizens,” he said. “And for example I will look at who advertises ABC from 11.30 pm to 12.30 pm and only speak for my own family, when we see Jimmy Kimmel, we will look at those advertisements. And if we see alternative programming, we will boycott the time.”
Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif. District 32), co-presidents of the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus, warned that President Trump has been demanding the scalp of Kimmel for some time. “First, Trump wrote more than two months ago that Jimmy Kimmel’s show should be canceled. Last week the FCC chairman of Trump said that companies should take action on Kimmel, even that they can do it in the easy way or in the hard way.” And the companies received the message. “
She then criticized Nexstar: “ABC’s greatest distributor, who needs the approval of the FCC for a merger of $ 6.2 billion, immediately followed his orders and the show went for, and ABC took it out of the air for an indefinite period. So this was not about a cabonus who made him and the FCC. The FCC. The FCC. criticize.
Rep. Ted Lieu added that this is not just about Kimmel. “Last year, the Supreme Court ruled a unanimous decision that government officials cannot force third parties to punish the views or suppress that government officials are fake, and my message to ABC is very simple: you don’t kneel,” he said. ‘What happens when you kneel? The bully comes after you again, and now the FCC chairman Brendan Carr ABC threatens because he does not like the statements of ‘The View’. When will this stop? ABC, you have a choice.
And to prove his point, Lieu said: “I can say that things like Donald Trump are partly on Epstein files because he is everywhere in the Epstein files.”
Other speakers at the event were Writers Guild of America-West President Meredith Stiehm, in addition to members of SAG-AFTRA, Teamsters, Iatse and other trade unions.
