Fox’s Laura Ingraham Defends Kimmel Suspension: ‘Ridiculously Stupid’ to Call It ‘Cancel Culture’

Fox News host Laura Ingraham defended ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely — following a comment in which he claimed Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was a right-winger.

During a panel discussion with Fox News contributor Byron York and 2Way founder Mark Halperin, Ingraham played the remark that ABC used as justification for pulling Kimmel off the air — amid backlash from affiliates and one major station group announcing plans to pre-empt Kimmel on its channels across the country.

“The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on his Monday night broadcast.

Ingraham made clear that she does not believe the suspension to be an example of cancel culture.

“Byron, to those who say, ‘Oh, this is cancel culture. Now you’re embracing cancel culture.’ I hit this last night, but I want to give you the chance to hit that ridiculously stupid retort to what we’re talking about,” Ingraham said.

York argued that ABC pulling Kimmel was an example of the free market at work.

“The market is speaking in this case,” York said. “And obviously making a joke — any joke — about this assassination at this time just seems to be incredibly reckless, and making one based on a libelous falsehood is even worse.”

“They cease to be funny because they cease to connect with the American people,” Ingraham said of Kimmel and his late-night peers. “They should go back and watch [Johnny] Carson and then maybe find their senses of humor.”

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