And let's be honest, because he had become so politically unhinged that I think he wasn't particularly funny. Now, The FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, put out a couple of tweets, but the government took no action [to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air]. We did literally nothing to try to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air. We believe in free speech. We also believe in the right of a television station or a network to cancel somebody because of low ratings. (07:29–07:35)
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