Former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the news that Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been pulled from ABC’s schedule indefinitely, calling out what he sees as a new and dangerous level of government coercion. In a post on X, Obama stated that the current administration has taken cancel culture to an extreme by threatening media companies with regulatory action if they don’t muzzle or fire reporters and commentators they dislike.
According to Obama, this is exactly the kind of government pressure that the First Amendment was created to stop. He went on to urge media companies to stand up to the threats rather than just giving in. This statement comes after ABC announced that Kimmel’s late-night show would be off the air for an unknown amount of time, a decision that followed threats from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
