(18 Sep 2025)
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kevin Cramer, (R) North Dakota:
"One of the things that makes a liberal a liberal is when they think they’re smarter than everybody else and say anything they want because they’re so brilliant. And everyone ought to listen. And by the way, if you’re not one of those people, you’re the liberal that wants somebody to tell them what to do. And you know, I think some of these people, including Jimmy Kimmel are getting what the market wants and he’s getting what he deserves. I don’t know about FCC but.."
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2. STILL the seal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seen before an FCC meeting to vote on net neutrality (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, ID 17348551953757)
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3. STILL Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, ID 25261597013038)
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Kevin Cramer, (R) North Dakota:
"A veiled threat, occasionally maybe, you know, if that’s what scares off ABC, maybe they need a little bit of a scare."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, (D) Connecticut:
Reporter: "Are you concerned about how quickly these networks are becoming scared?"
Blumenthal: "The precipitous, premature kind of action against Kimmel reflects a lack of real backbone, which ought to worry not just the industry, but also its viewers and advertisers, because this kind of censorship will spread like a cancer. It will metastasize. And if they start bowing now to the whims and wishes of the censors in Washington doing President Trump’s bidding, we will lose all of our liberties eventually and…"
Reporter: "It’s amazing everybody wants to censor they just called it different things."
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6. STILL President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, ID 25248773143953)
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, (D) Connecticut:
"Ultimately we will be the losers. Satire, humor, comedy are the stuff of political expression. Not just entertainment. And this kind of heavy-handed, ham-handed censorship is going to be a whirlwind that will come back to haunt the chairman of the FCC and others."
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STORYLINE:
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are weighing in on ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
Sen. Kevin Cramer, a Republican representing North Dakota, told the Associated Press that Kimmel is "getting what he deserves."
"One of the things that makes a liberal a liberal is when they think they’re smarter than everybody else and say anything they want because they’re so brilliant. And everyone ought to listen," Cramer said.
Earlier in the day, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel’s comments “truly sick” and said his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation. He said the comic appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that Kirk’s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.
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