"The View" Addresses Kimmel Controversy: "No one silences us"

Goldberg then slammed the FCC's apparent role in Kimmel's suspension. "Someone can say something they shouldn't and get taken off the air," she said, “but the government cannot apply pressure to force someone to be silenced."

"We talk about freedom of speech a lot because we are always in somebody's mess because somebody has decided that we have said something that's offensive," Goldberg said. "But we fight for everybody's right to have freedom of speech because it means my speech is free, it means your speech is free."

Co-host Ana Navarro started her comments on the Kimmel controversy by thanking View viewers for "demanding truth and courage from us. You deserve it." She then decried the use of Charlie Kirk to silence debate when Kirk himself was a free speech advocate.

"I have to tell you this," Navarro continued. "I lived through a right-wing dictatorship in Nicaragua and I lived through a left-wing dictatorship in Nicaragua. This is what dictators and authoritarians do. It does not matter the ideology. At first, they come with it for the people with big platforms, at first the silence the press, but then they come for all of us because their intent is to scare us into silence and self-censorship."

"The View"s conservative voice, Alyssa Farah Griffin, said, "The First Amendment is the first for a reason, because you need to be able to hold those in power accountable."

Following last week’s news of the Kimmel suspension, FCC chairman Brendan Carr said the FCC should investigate whether "The View" is exempt from FCC’s equal opportunity, or equal time rule.

Bye, gurl

You're next. ABC Disney will sacrifice you to the tangerine Palpatine

R2- First thing I said before opening the thread. BYE BYE WHOOPI!!!!!!

(And considering some of the people that she had defended over the years, the irony is almost funny)

This show will be 100% overhauled and will likely be largely conservative-

The segment was just added to the show's YouTube page. You can watch it at the link.

Total bullshit that they waited for Kimmel’s response. They were silenced by Disney/ABC.

Is so, why did Disney un-silence them, r5?

When is My Fat Daughter coming back?

Good for them. DONT let it get buried by distractions. This is something that the majority disagrees with - even a good chunk of republicans.

400 celebrities have signed an open letter to publicly condemn the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel & attack on free speech.

Celebrities who signed include Adam Scott, Bryan Cranston, Florence Pugh, Pedro Pascal, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Jason Bateman, Rainn Wilson, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Selena Gomez, Noah Wyle, Al Yankovic, Katy O’Brian, Tom Hanks, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Michael Shannon, Jonathan Groff, Hank Azaria, Kirsten Dunst, Olivia Rodrigo, Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Tessa Thompson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Regina Hall, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Diego Luna, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Zazie Beetz, Ben Stiller, Natalie Portman, Maya Rudolph, Rooney Mars, Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Short, Alfred Molina and Kerry Washington

Angelina Jolie says "I don't recognize" America anymore.

“I love my country, but at this time, I don’t recognize my country. I’ve always lived internationally, my family is international, my friends, my life… My worldview is equal, united, and international. Anything anywhere that divides or limits personal expressions and freedoms from anyone, I think, is very dangerous. These are such serious times that we have to be careful not to say things casually. These are very, very heavy times we are living in together.”

Heavy, man, heavy.

Interesting responses

And how many of these people will still continue to work for Disney?

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[quote]Angelina Jolie says "I don't recognize" America anymore.

Because of all the work done on her, "I don't recognize" Angelina anymore.

Some of you seem to be cheering Trump and Disney on.

I just don't understand you. You must really be masochists.

They will be off the air in just a few months. Mark my words.

[quote]Goldberg then slammed the FCC's apparent role in Kimmel's suspension. "Someone can say something they shouldn't and get taken off the air," she said, “but the government cannot apply pressure to force someone to be silenced."

The FCC is the government.

To R14 and R15- They are awesome responses; you're in my new will!!

Made me laugh& it's all True.

[quote] "No one silences us"

I... disagree

Where was Behar?

She gets Monday off.

Whoopi knows that, r18. As do the rest of us.

Hindsight and all... They can talk today because Kimmell is back tomorrow! WoooHooo

[quote]Whoopi knows that

No she doesn’t. She still doesn’t under the Holocaust either. The FCC has the legal authority to censor. That’s its job.

Trump watches TV all day.

R25 Nope. It's really not. NOTHING that Kimmel said would warrant the FCC stepping in.

The one panelist on The View who should have addressed this issue was Joy and she wasn’t on because she diesn’t work Mondays. Her defense of stand-up comics being silenced might have had so e heft rather than Whoopi’s Julia Sugarbaker style polemics and hectoring,

The people in the YouTube comments of The View video sound like cult members, practically weeping because THEY SPOKE ON IT!!

People really need these hags validating their opinions that badly?

I don't believe Whoopi Goldberg for one second. She said The View did not respond last week because it was waiting to see if Jimmy Kimmel responded first.

LIAR LIAR LIAR. The View did not respond because it was told NOT to respond. Every other show and podcaster on the air had responded. It was clear Kimmel was not going to respond and was working through negotiations.

The View did not respond because the brass at ABC and Disney said don't you fucking dare! And The View bent the knee and didn't say a word.

No one silences us. That’s why we talk over each other

No one puts Whoopi in a corner! She wouldn't fit.

You're just an elderly TV presenter, you know.