"After quoting Carr's "easy way or the hard way" threat, Kimmel called it "a direct violation of the First Amendment" and "not a particularly intelligent threat to make in public. Ted Cruz said he sounded like a mafioso, although I don't know. If you want to hear a mob boss make a threat like that, you have to hide a microphone in a deli and park outside in a van with a tape recorder all night long. This genius said it on a podcast.""
"Kimmel pointed out that in 2022, Carr wrote a saying that "political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people in to the discussion. That's why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.""
Jimmy Kimmel reacted to a podcaster's "easy way or the hard way" threat, calling it a direct violation of the First Amendment and an unintelligent public threat. Kimmel noted that the podcaster had previously praised political satire as a vital form of free speech and warned that influential people often target it for censorship. A Robert De Niro bit portrayed an FCC chair joking that praising Trump is free while criticizing him could carry physical costs. Kimmel said his show remains absent from 66 Sinclair and Nexstar affiliates, affecting about 20 percent of the country, and he was suspended after a monologue criticizing MAGA's reaction to a murder, adding he never intended to make light of the incident.
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