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Former Cincinnati Reds star Zack Cozart cheered on Wednesday Disney’s decision to Yank -comedian Jimmy Kimmel from the air following controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s assault.
Disney confirmed to Pakinomist Digital that ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was drawn “indefinitely.”
“The tide turns,” Cozart wrote on X, “Hold the pedal to the metal.”
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Cincinnati Reds Shortstop Zack Cozart (2) Against Miami Marlins at Great American Ball Park. (Aaron Doster/USA Today Sports)
On Monday, Kimmel accused the Conservatives of reaching “new low lower” in an attempt to establish a leftist ideology on 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson, though prosecutors confirmed these ties in Tuesday’s indictment.
“We hit some new low low over the weekend with the Maga Band, desperately trying to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and does everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.
Kimel’s comments immediately triggered setback when they arrived one day after both the FBI officials and Utah Prime Minister Spencer Cox said Robinson had a “leftist ideology” and was increasingly radicalized in recent years. It was also revealed that he had a romantic relationship with a transgender partner who was biologically male and switched to her.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr then issued a threat to Disney if it did not deal with the controversy.
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova responds to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled out of the air after Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel, the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” During the show on June 16, 2025. (Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty Images)
By performing on Wednesday’s “The Benny Show”, Carr Kimmel’s comments called “some of the sickest behavior” and suggested that there were potential “ways” that FCC could pursue.
“In some quarters, there is a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people about nature … of one of the most significant news-worthy public interests that we have seen for a long time in what seems to be an act of Jimmy Kimmel to play into the tale that this was somehow a maga or a republican motive,” Carr said Carren Beny Johnson.
Nexstar Media Group, which owns hundreds of television stations, earlier announced that it would prevent Kimmel’s show at its ABC -associated companies from Wednesday night “in the foreseeable future” and would replace it with other programming over his comments about Robinson.
Kirk, 31, was shot and killed last week while talking at an event at Utah Valley University. Thousands of people have taken care of his death in vigilance throughout the United States
The Conservative Influencer’s funeral is set to September 21 in Glendale, Arizona.
