FROM ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Political commentator Keith Olbermann has some choice words for Sinclair Broadcast Group and, in turn, the late far-right activist Charlie Kirk in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late night.
ABC abruptly yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live from the air “indefinitely” following public pressure from Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr and network affiliates and affiliate groups, including Nexstar and Sinclair, on Wednesday.
The move stemmed from Kimmel’s comments about Kirk’s public execution in a monologue — namely that the “MAGA gang” is “desperately trying to characterize” Kirk’s suspected killer “as anything other than one of them” in order to “score political points.”
Sinclair has issued a lengthy statement condemning Kimmel’s comments as “inappropriate and deeply insensitive.” ABC stations will air a remembrance of Kirk on Friday, in Kimmel’s time slot, and urged him to “issue a direct apology to the Kirk family” and make a donation to Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA.
Olbermann took to X to blast Sinclair.
“Burn in hell, Sinclair. Alongside Charlie Kirk,” Olbermann wrote.
In follow-up posts, Olbermann insisted that that “nothing [Kimmel] said was untrue” and that “Kimmel never said the shooter was or wasn’t MAGA.”
Burn in hell, Sinclair.
Alongside Charlie Kirk. https://t.co/VjRfmUKXXK
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 18, 2025
Nothing Jimmy Kimmel said was untrue. pic.twitter.com/xSogjg7gK9
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 18, 2025
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