White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made a dig at former President Barack Obama Saturday, denying the White House’s role in ABC’s decision to suspend “Jimmy Kimmel Live” indefinitely.
Obama wrote Thursday on X, ”After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”
“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” he said in a follow-up post.
Leavitt told Fox News’ “Saturday in America” host Kayleigh McEnany that “with all due respect to former President Obama, he has no idea what he’s talking about.”
The late-night talk show was pulled off the air indefinitely following massive backlash from conservatives who took offense to comments made about MAGA’s reaction to podcaster Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting during Monday night’s monologue.
