Conservative podcaster Ben Ferguson said Monday on Fox Business’ “The Bottom Line” that it’s “beautiful” that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension has been lifted because conservatives will get to watch the “disaster” ABC is “committed to.”
Disney announced Monday it would lift Kimmel’s suspension and bring back “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday evening. Since the show was pulled Wednesday, Democrats have complained about free speech being stifled. Fox’s Dagen McDowell asked Ferguson how liberals have responded and what he thinks they will do next.
“It’s cancel culture 2.0 now with the Democratic Party. ‘We’re in favor of free speech only if it’s our guys,’ number one. And two, ‘Now that we’ve brought him back, what does this mean?’ I actually think this is beautiful, and just hear me out for a second. Now, everybody knows how bad Jimmy Kimmel is,” Ferguson said. “Now, there’s been a light that’s been shined on the bigotry and hatred of conservatives and Christians and flyover country by Jimmy Kimmel, because all of the old clips have now been put together in montages and have gone viral on social media.”
Disney’s ABC announced Wednesday that Kimmel would be indefinitely suspended following his Sept. 15 monologue, in which he said the “MAGA gang” had hit “new lows” and claimed Republicans were trying to portray Kirk’s alleged assassin as “anything other than one of them.”
In response, Democrats, including California Rep. Eric Swalwell and former President Barack Obama, accused Republicans and Trump’s administration of taking “cancel culture” to a “new and dangerous level.”
Ferguson went on to say that not only does he not believe Kimmel’s show will last long but that conservatives now get to witness how the “free market” will reject him.