Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA urged ABC-TV affiliates not to carry “Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ when it returns to the airwaves Tuesday.
Andrew Kolvet, the spokesman and executive producer of what had been Kirk’s popular podcast before his assassination Sept. 10, slammed the network and parent company Disney on Monday for “caving” and allowing the embattled late-night host back.
Kimmel’s show got yanked a week ago over shocking on-air remarks he made about MAGA supporters and Kirk’s murder.
“Disney and ABC caving and allowing Kimmel back on the air is not surprising, but it’s their mistake to make,” Kolvet tweeted minutes after the network revealed Kimmel would be returning.
“Nextstar and Sinclair do not have to make the same choice,” he said of the conglomerates that own a bunch of ABC affiliates.
The involuntary hiatus for Kimmel came as FCC Chair Brendan Carr floated taking federal action against the network and after Nexstar and Sinclair vowed not to carry the program on their stations.
Turning Point USA was co-founded by Kirk and his widow, Erika Kirk, is now the CEO of the organization.
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