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Disney quietly reversed course on Monday and announced Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC’s late-night lineup on Tuesday, essentially giving the famously partisan host what amounted to a long weekend off after an unprecedented suspension. Conservatives who cheered the initial decision are right to be skeptical that a network that folded so quickly will ever hold its own side to account.
The suspension followed Kimmel’s on-air monologue about the September 10 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, comments that prompted outrage and prompted ABC to pull the show last Wednesday as the backlash mounted. Network officials said they had “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel before reversing, but facts matter: this wasn’t a minor misstep, it was a political smear tied to a real and tragic death.
Local powerbrokers across the country responded exactly as they should have when left-wing entertainers cross the line — major ABC affiliates, including Nexstar and Sinclair, preempted the program, and even the head of the FCC weighed in with threats of regulatory action. That reaction showed how much influence station groups and federal officials wield over what Americans can and cannot hear on the public airwaves.
Disney’s decision to bring Kimmel back, according to reporting, came after internal talks and pressure from business considerations rather than a principled defense of speech; the company called his remarks “ill-timed” but stopped short of an apology. In plain terms, the media elite and their corporate overlords calculated that placating Hollywood and avoiding a consumer revolt was the safest route — not accountability.
As predictably happened, hundreds of Hollywood figures and free-speech groups rushed to Kimmel’s defense, signing open letters and demanding his reinstatement while lecturing the rest of the country about censorship. That chorus of celebrity outrage shouldn’t drown out the basic truth: Washington insiders and coastal elites do not get to decide which communities’ values matter most.
Make no mistake — Kimmel essentially bought himself a long weekend, and the rest of us were shown the double standard that protects the left’s megaphone. Disney even faced a spike in cancellation searches for its streaming service as consumers pushed back, a reminder that when the public speaks with their wallets the corpocrats sometimes blink.
Patriotic Americans should applaud the affiliates that stood their ground and insist that standards be applied evenly across the broadcasting landscape. If the FCC and corporate boards can be weaponized to shield celebrities one day and punish conservatives the next, then it’s time for real accountability and a national conversation about fairness, decency, and who gets to control our airwaves.
