by Wayne Besen • September 17, 2025 • Truth Wins Out • Comments (0) • 340

TWO Calls ABC’s Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel McCarthyist and Warns of a Right Wing Cancel Crusade

To Please MAGA, The Media is Entering Baghdad Bob Territory

Delray Beach, FL — Truth Wins Out (TWO), a nonprofit dedicated to exposing extremism, strongly condemns ABC’s cowardly decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! following the host’s commentary about the assassination of far‑right influencer Charlie Kirk. TWO’s Executive Director Wayne Besen said the move is part of a dangerous right‑wing “Cancel Crusade” that has weaponized outrage to silence dissent and intimidate media outlets.

“ABC’s capitulation to political pressure shows that the right has adopted the very cancel‑culture tactics it once decried,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “If this dire situation continues, the only people left on the air will be Baghdad Bob and that anchorwoman in North Korea. This is a new McCarthyism that has expanded the boundaries of ‘woke’ to once unimaginable dimensions. It is chilling the free press and punishing truth‑tellers.”

During Kimmel’s monologue last Tuesday, he criticized attempts by some conservatives to distance the suspected shooter from the MAGA movement, saying, “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.”

In Orwellian fashion, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr condemned the segment and suggested the FCC could pursue license revocation, prompting ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar to pre‑empt Kimmel’s show.