ABC’s bombshell decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel‘s late-night show set the legacy media and establishment Democrats into a tailspin on Wednesday evening. They framed the move as a capitulation to a bullying Trump administration.
MSNBC prime-time host Chris Hayes tweeted ominously, “The countries where comedians can’t mock the leader on late-night TV are not really ones you want to live in.”
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CNN’s Brian Stelter, appearing on Anderson Cooper 360, called the move an example of “Orbanism.”
“In Hungary, Victor Orban did many of the things we’re now seeing the Trump administration do,” he said. “He weakened public broadcasting. He muzzled independent media through autocratic carrots and sticks. And he incentivized the owners to fall in line. And that’s what
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