""It's ridiculous," he said. "You can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office, that's just not how this works.""
""The point is beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately in the name of comedy, not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.""
""This guy [at] the FCC said, 'We can do things the easy way. We can do things the hard way,'" he added. "Who is hiring these goons? Mario Puzo?""
Jimmy Kimmel Live! was pulled off the air indefinitely after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened ABC over comments about the death of Charlie Kirk. David Letterman labeled the move "misery" and called it "ridiculous," asserting that firing someone out of fear or to curry favor with an administration is improper. Letterman referenced decades of joking about six presidents without pressure from governmental agencies, including the FCC. A reported FCC remark about doing things "the easy way" or "the hard way" was cited and criticized as invoking intimidation and hiring "goons."
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