Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | News | September 22, 2025
After Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension last week, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr made it known that The View was next on his hit list, which made it all the more concerning that the women of The View did not address the situation on Thursday or Friday’s episodes. They’re very outspoken about the news of the day, and Kimmel’s suspension was the news of the week.
This morning, they finally spoke out.
“Now look. Did y’all really think we weren’t going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel?” Whoopi Goldberg asked. “I mean, have you watched the show over the last 29 seasons? So you know no one silences us.”
OK, then why didn’t they say anything before? Because, according to Goldberg, they were taking “a breath to see if Jimmy was going to say anything about it first.”
Do I believe that? Not really. I think they waited until the tide definitively turned against Disney and Brendan Carr before they weighed in, but at least they eventually weighed in. “To be clear, you can not like a show and it can go off the air,” Goldberg said. “Someone can say something they shouldn’t, and get taken off the air. But the government cannot apply pressure to force someone to be silenced.”
“I want to start by thanking our loyal viewers for demanding truth and courage from us,” Ana Navarro added. “You deserve it, and we’ll give it to you.”
“The part that I don’t understand, and that is so ironic to me,” she continued, “is how the horrible, senseless assassination of Charlie Kirk—a man I disagreed with but who stood for debate, who stood for freedom of speech—is being used to silence people and cancel people.”
“This is what dictators and authoritarians do,” Navarro added. “It does not matter the ideology. At first, they come for the people with big platforms. At first, they silence the press. But then they come for all of us. Because their intent is to scare us into silence and self-censorship.”
I feel confident that Disney is eventually going to cave on this, and I think folks like Ted Cruz are giving them the cover on the right to do so. Greg Gutfeld, who has clearly seen where this is headed (a place where everyone on both sides is eventually silenced), also weighed in, saying that Charlie Kirk would want Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. Not that Gutfeld was diplomatic about it:
I do think Jimmy should be back on the air, at least to explain himself, even though he and all the other pieces of s**t spent years putting targets on our backs. But maybe that’s what Charlie Kirk would want. I mean, he did platform his haters. There’s probably no stronger position in the world and it cost him his life, but it changed the world. You can feel it. The morons I mentioned no longer control the narratives. Their power to shape vast audiences is gone.
Again, there is a difference between the online mobs — which both sides have clearly gotten a taste of now — and actual government interference, which is coming from this Administration. This is not an angry group of Karens trying to cancel people they disagree with online. This is the FCC Chairman, under the influence of the President of the United States, attempting to silence speech. This is a First Amendment issue, and that is illegal, which is why the ACLU is now involved.
In the meantime, here’s some irony: Bob Iger is married to Willow Bay, the dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and they were going to hold a free speech fundraiser at Iger and Bay’s home. There are now discussions about moving that because the optics clearly do not look great. You think?
