Well, that didn’t take long. Hours after The View hosts condemned the possible role of the FCC in ABC’s today-lifted suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live, White House communications director Steven Cheung is slamming both shows.
In an exclusive statement to Entertainment Weekly, Cheung said, “Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his audience. That’s why the network kicked him to the curb like a used empty beer can.”
He continues, “Similarly, The View is also devoid of actual talent, and is a collection of irrelevant has-beens and never-beens that nobody with any commonsense [sic] would ever series unless it was to laugh at them.”
For the record: ABC did not kick Kimmel “to the curb,” but rather suspended his show temporarily. The network announced today that Jimmy Kimmel Live will return tomorrow night.
Earlier today, The View moderator Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the Hot Topics segment by asking, “Did y’all really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel? I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? No one silences us.” That came as the daytime talk show did not address the Kimmel controversy last week, leading to some speculation that ABC was stifling the discussion.
The Kimmel controversy began last week when the late-night host said, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize” the suspected shooter “as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”
On today’s View, Goldberg explained her show’s decision not to immediately comment on Kimmel by saying, “When the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first. 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 today.”
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