Jimmy Kimmel News Stirs Up Conservative Podcasters
Long before Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show was pulled indefinitely by ABC on Wednesday, the podcast world — particularly in the so-called manosphere — was awash in debate about free speech, cancel culture and where the lines are drawn between humor and hate speech.
In episodes devoted to the subject, many podcasters in that realm, and in conservative circles, were united in arguing that Mr. Kimmel had spread false information on his Monday telecast when he said of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Mr. Kirk, that conservatives were “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.”
The reactions from the podcast hosts varied widely, however, when it came to the influence of the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, who suggested in an interview hours before ABC’s announcement that the regulatory agency might take action against the network because of the hosts’s remarks.
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