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(NewsNation) — Bill O'Reilly feels Jimmy Kimmel's remarks blaming MAGA for Charlie Kirk's assassination were outrageous.
"What Kimmel did is inexplicable to me," O'Reilly told Chris Cuomo. "He had to cognize connected Monday, successful his dialogue, however earthy the state was implicit this assassination of Charlie Kirk. He had to cognize that."
On Wednesday, ABC it was pulling Kimmel's show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," from aerial indefinitely. It came after Nexstar Media Group announced it would preempt Kimmel’s show and regenerate it with different programming. Nexstar, which owns NewsNation, besides owns 32 ABC affiliates, including KTVX successful Salt Lake City.
During his amusement Monday night, Kimmel said the state “hit immoderate caller lows implicit the weekend” erstwhile the “MAGA pack desperately tried to qualify this kid who killed Kirk arsenic thing different than 1 of them.”
Kirk was killed last week during an quality astatine Utah Valley University portion helium debated students with antithetic governmental views. Kimmel, 57, accused Republicans of trying to “score governmental points” from his death.
O'Reilly was baffled that not 1 squad subordinate of Kimmel's amusement pushed backmost connected his monologue.
"You person a artillery of writers," helium said. "You person a shaper connected your program. Did nary 1 red-flag you connected this? Did nary 1 accidental thing astir this?"
"This isn't astir censorship, each right? This is astir responsibility," O'Reilly added.
Jimmy Kimmel besides criticized President Trump during monologue
Kimmel besides took purpose astatine President Trump successful his opening remarks aft airing a video of Trump taking a question astir Kirk’s death. In the video, Trump abruptly changes the taxable to speech astir a planned White House ballroom.
Kimmel joked Trump was mourning Charlie Kirk “the mode a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
Kirk's decease has led to accrued tensions crossed the country, with galore labeling it arsenic different illustration of governmental violence. While some parties person condemned his murder, Kimmel and different commentators are present facing consequences for their remarks astir his death.
MSNBC governmental expert Matthew Dowd was fired soon aft making on-air comments amid the archetypal reports that Kirk had been shot. He apologized and said helium wasn’t blaming Kirk for the attack.
