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Think about their silence damaged.
On Monday morning, The View aired a brand new episode and eventually addressed the controversy behind ABC yanking Jimmy Kimmel off the air final week.
The panelists had beforehand been criticized for not talking out on such a salient matter, with many observers questioning if that they had been ordered to remain quiet by their company bosses.
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To open this system, host Whoopi Goldberg mentioned she and the others on stage “took a breath to see if Jimmy [Kimmel] was going to say anything about it” first, including:
“I mean, look, did y’all really think we were not gonna talk about Jimmy Kimmel? I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? You know, no one silences us.”
Referencing CBS not too long ago deciding to cancel Stephen Colbert, Goldberg continued:
“We did the same thing with Stephen Colbert. Then, our show was on tape on Friday. But we are live here today. And we’re getting into it now.”
After which they obtained into it.
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“You can not like a show and it can go off the air” and “someone can say something they shouldn’t and get taken off the air,” however “the government can not apply pressure to force someone to be silenced,” Goldberg defined as her stance.
Goldberg added of President Donald Trump:
“I don’t understand how you are the man in charge of the nation and you still don’t understand how the First Amendment works.”
Are we positive he doesn’t perceive? Or is it extra that he merely doesn’t care?
From there, Ana Navarro expressed her viewpoint.
Jimmy Kimmel, winner of the Excellent Host for a Sport Present Award for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”, attends the 2025 Inventive Arts Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 7, 2025. (Picture Credit score: Kevin Winter/Getty Photos)
“For me, I want to start by thanking our loyal viewers for demanding truth and courage from us. You deserve it and we will give it to you,” she mentioned.
“The half that I don’t perceive that’s so ironic to me is how the horrible, mindless assassination of Charlie Kirk — a person I disagreed with — who stood for debate, who stood for freedom of speech, is getting used to silence individuals and cancel individuals.
“I don’t understand how in this country, where the First Amendment made to the constitution was to guarantee freedom of the press and freedom of speech, the government itself is using its weight and power to bully and scare people into silence.”
Charlie Kirk’s memorial service was held over the weekend, a number of days after the conservative commentator was shot useless whereas making a speech on a university campus in Utah.
Ana Navarro attends the “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” premiere throughout the 2025 Tribeca Competition at SVA Theater on June 12, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos for Tribeca Competition)
Farah Griffin, in the meantime, inspired viewers to “think about the precedent it sets down the road.”
Two days earlier than ABC’s September 17 determination, Kimmel mentioned throughout his monologue that the “MAGA Gang” was “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. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
He additionally provided his condolences to Kirk’s household previous to the episode.
And he didn’t say a unfavourable factor in any respect about Kirk himself.
CEO of Turning Level USA Charlie Kirk speaks on stage on the primary day of the Republican Nationwide Conference on the Fiserv Discussion board on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos)
On the finish of the September 22 episode of The View, Goldberg wished the viewers a contented Rosh Hashanah and provided this message:
“Don’t give up, we are all in this together and we’re doing it, and we will see you tomorrow, because we will.”
