“The View” co-hosts finally have something to say about “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” being put on indefinite hold.
“Did y’all really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel?” Whoopi Goldberg asked at the top of Monday’s show. “I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? You know, no one silences us.”
Not a word was said about the news in the two episodes after the late-night show was suddenly suspended, prompting viewers and commentators to speculate that “The View” and Kimmel’s mutual parent company, ABC, had directed the panelists to stay quiet.
Explaining why they waited to weigh in on one of the most pressing news events of the moment, Goldberg said, “When the news broke last week about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, we took a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first.”
Goldberg told her fellow panelists she saw Kimmel’s suspension as a clear example of the government using its power to suppress the right to free speech.
