Former Disney CEO Eisner backs Jimmy Kimmel, blasts FCC ‘intimidation’ of ABC


Michael Eisner, chairman of Topps Co. and former chief government officer of Walt Disney Co., speaks throughout an interview in New York on Sept. 22, 2010.

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Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner on Friday issued an announcement supporting Jimmy Kimmel, whose late-night present has been suspended indefinitely by Disney’s subsidiary ABC for feedback the host made concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Eisner, in a tweet, blasted Federal Communications Fee Chairman Brendan Carr for what he known as “out-of-control intimidation” of ABC and Disney within the hours earlier than the community mentioned it was yanking “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” off the air Wednesday evening.

“The place has all of the management gone?” requested Eisner.

“Perhaps the Structure ought to have mentioned, ‘Congress shall make no regulation abridging the liberty of speech, or of the press, besides in a single’s political or monetary self-interest,'” Eisner quipped in his submit on X.

“By-the-way, for the document, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very proficient and humorous.”

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