Kimmel lied to his audience when he blamed the murder on the ‘MAGA gang,’ violating FCC regulations that prohibit news distortion or a hoax.
Kimmel lied to his audience when he blamed the murder on the ‘MAGA gang,’ violating FCC regulations that prohibit news distortion or a hoax.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has done the impossible: He got ABC to consider the tone of its often offensively partisan programming and make a change. Disney-owned ABC abruptly pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its broadcast lineup late Wednesday, hopefully ending Kimmel’s ugly career.
The move is more likely in response to Carr’s threat of consequences for ABC, issued on The Benny Show podcast with Benny Johnson, than Kimmel’s unfunny, untrue monologue insulting the conservative movement while it mourns the senseless loss of one of its brightest lights.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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,” Kimmel said.
BREAKING – Jimmy Kimmel is facing calls to publicly apologize after lying to millions live on air by claiming Charlie Kirk’s assassin was MAGA, with demands that if he doesn’t, ABC should have its broadcast license pulled or he should be fired. pic.twitter.com/cRUZucVNEo— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 17, 2025
It was a tone-deaf pack of lies. The alleged assassin is not MAGA. At 22 he is not a kid. And he has numerous overtly leftist characteristics. Kimmel tried to throw his viewers off the scent of the truth, and, with a sickening mirth, kicked hurting people while they are down. The few fools who still watched his show surely assumed his words were true. Many people get their news from so-called comedy monologues and assume the premise of the “joke” is at least accurate.
Kimmel straight-up lied to his audience, violating FCC regulations that prohibit news distortion or a hoax. According to the regulations:
The broadcast by a station of false information concerning a crime or catastrophe violates the FCC’s rules if:
The station licensee knew that the information was false;
Broadcasting the false information directly causes substantial public harm; and
It was foreseeable that broadcasting the false information would cause such harm.
Kimmel seems wise enough to know what he was doing by flippantly blaming the murder on “the MAGA gang,” certainly causing “substantial public harm.
