Howard Stern Paints Disinformation Spreader Jimmy Kimmel as a Victim: ‘I’m Canceling My Disney+’

Longtime radio shock jock Howard Stern says “I feel for” Jimmy Kimmel and ABC after ABC broadcast affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair removed Jimmy Kimmel Live from their stations following his mendacious remarks, saying conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer is part of “the MAGA gang.”

“I can no longer keep my mouth shut,” Stern said on his SiriusXM show on Monday. “I feel obligated to say something, because shit’s getting outta control.”

“This involves the network ABC. They did something really dumb and fuckin’ horrible,” Stern said. “Everyone knows what happened with Jimmy Kimmel. The bottom line is you really don’t need my voice to know that something horrible happened at ABC.”

Stern, like most members of the dominant media, failed to mention that the ABC affiliates who booted Kimmel off their local stations did so in response to him using free public airwaves last week to tell a boldface lied about Kirk’s accused killer, falsely stating he’s a Trump supporter. As John Nolte points out “Kimmel stood on a national stage and told America a brazen lie. In the week since, neither he nor ABC/Disney have retracted and corrected that lie.”

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson fired back at Stern, telling The New York Post “This has nothing to do with free speech; low-ratings loser Kimmel is free to make whatever bad jokes he wants, but a private company is under no obligation to lose money producing unpopular shows.”

“Kimmel’s ratings have declined over 63 percent since his show moved to its current time slot and he has lost over 43 percent of his audience since President Trump returned to office,” Jackson said. “Jimmy Kimmel’s terrible product isn’t a free speech problem; it’s a talent problem.”