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 a press release 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 referred to as “out-of-control intimidation” of ABC and Disney within the hours earlier than the community mentioned it was yanking “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” off the air Wednesday night time.
“The place has all of the management gone?” requested Eisner.
“Perhaps the Structure ought to have mentioned, ‘Congress shall make no legislation abridging the liberty of speech, or of the press, besides in a single’s political or monetary self-interest,'” Eisner quipped in his publish on X.
“By-the-way, for the file, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very gifted and humorous.”
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