Any line between liberal comedian activist and public broadcasting journalist was erased on Monday as CNN/PBS’s Christiane Amanpour joined Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, to claim that anti-Trump activism is what “we have to keep doing” amid an alleged slide towards authoritarianism.
Stewart claimed that “It feels to me like the guardrails of our society in America that have failed us have been saved by the people… it hasn't been the corporate leadership or it hasn't been Congress, and it hasn't been the judiciary, although there has been underneath the Supreme Court, but it's been the president says, ‘I want to be like Orban, and I'm going to pull people off the air that say things I don't like,’ and the American people say, ‘[bleep] it then. I am canceling Hulu,’ and three days later, Kimmel’s back on the air. People here, they’re always saying, like, what can we do? I always say back, ‘You are doing it.’ We are holding a line on this, I think much more effectively than people might realize.”
For the thousandth time: President Trump did not cancel Jimmy Kimmel. ABC/Disney suspended him after affiliates refused to air his show out of fear that Kimmel would say something inflammatory after he played around in Blue Anon territory over the political affiliation of Charlie Kirk’s assassin.
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