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What's REALLY going on between Trump's FCC and ABC's 'The View'? Glenn Beck answers.
After platforming James Talarico, "The View" is facing an investigation by the FCC for potentially breaking the “equal time” political rule that requires non-news shows to give equal time to opposing political views.
While Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck isn’t a fan of "The View," he’s not sure that Trump’s FCC’s investigation will prove "The View" broke any rules.
“If you are a news show, you don’t have to have both sides on, because it's news. It’s breaking every day. It's changing every day. We have a hard enough time booking guests for a subject. Imagine having to book a guest that has the opposite view of everything you just are covering,” Glenn explains on “The Glenn Beck Program.”
“So that’s the rule. Now, ABC claims that 'The View' is a news show,” he says.
“I don’t watch 'The View.' I never have watched 'The View.' I have only watched the clips of 'The View,' because, for the love of everything that is good and sacred, little baby Jesus cannot save my soul from darkness if I watch that thing every day,” he continues.
“So I don’t know for sure, but from the clips that I have seen over the years, I would say that’s a news show,” he adds.
Glenn notes that he’s not “supporting ABC,” but he is “supporting the truth” as he understands it.
“If what they talk about most of the time is the news of the day, I would consider that a news show,” he says, pointing out that it’s his “understanding that Jimmy Kimmel is also considered a news program.”
“That’s not a news program. I did one search. How many politicians has Jimmy Kimmel had on his show in the last 60 days? And the answer was one. What is the balance of his show? The balance of his guests are Hollywood,” he continues. “It’s an entertainment show, not a news show. That one clearly doesn’t qualify.”
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ABC and the New York Times normalize leftist calls for violence
While Jimmy Kimmel’s widow joke wasn’t calling for violence, BlazeTV host Ron Simmons explains that calling for violence isn’t the problem — it’s the normalization of political violence that is.
“I don’t think Jimmy is telling somebody to go out there and kill somebody, I do think that he is making light of what has been, as we already know, from the two previous assassination attempts, attempts on President Trump’s life, and the fact that we should be happy if he’s dead,” Simmons says on “Relatable.”
And the first lady is on the same page as Simmons.
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” Melania wrote in a post on X.
The first lady went on to call for “ABC to take a stand” in response to Kimmel’s joke, while the president called for his firing in a post on Truth Social.
“He ought to be fired immediately,” Simmons agreed.
But Kimmel isn’t the only celebrity normalizing violent political rhetoric.
“There are other people out here that are inciting things that we need to pay attention to,” Simmons explains, before calling out Hasan Piker.
“The New York Times basically platformed him, allowed him to participate in some of their communications. And this guy, he’s even worse than Jimmy Kimmel,” he says, pointing out that in an interview with the NYT, he suggested that the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was justified.
“Engles wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson as the United Healthcare CEO was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder, the systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit paywalled system of health care in this country,” Piker said in the interview.
“And the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of death,” he added.
However, Simmons notes that Piker has said much worse on his own Twitch stream.
“If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott,” Piker said.
In another clip, Piker calls for property owners to be killed “in the street.”
“Yeah kill them. ... Let the streets soak in their f**king red, capitalist blood,” he said.
“The New York Times, if they’re a legitimate journalistic output, they shouldn’t be platforming a guy like this,” Simmons comments.
“I mean, that’s just way, way, way over the line,” he adds.
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Jimmy Kimmel doubles down on Melania ‘widow’ jab — will this be the nail in his coffin?
On April 23, just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel released a skit parodying the event, during which he joked that Melania Trump had "a glow like an expectant widow.”
Of course, at the actual WHCD, President Trump and others in the administration were victims of yet another assassination attempt.
But instead of apologizing for his comment, which Melania called “hateful and violent rhetoric” and cause for his firing, Kimmel doubled down.
“[It] obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am,” the late-night host said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t buying Kimmel’s excuses. This time, she argues, he may have pushed his luck too far.
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“Jimmy Kimmel: His time might finally be up,” says Sara, pointing to Kimmel’s history of making deliberately inflammatory comments.
In September 2025, immediately following the murder of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel made a comment many viewed as insensitive or politicizing the killing, sparking massive backlash, threats from the FCC chairman, affiliate stations pulling his show, and ABC temporarily suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“After everything had happened and after all of the blowback that he had had, has he learned anything?” asks Sara. “The answer is no. They never do.”
She highlights the left’s glaring double standard when it comes to humor.
“They are outraged any time President Trump ever tells [a joke]. ... In fact, nobody on the right can ever tell a joke without them being just horrified, without them clutching their pearls,” she rails.
Sara also makes fun of the left’s obsession with cancel culture, only to turn around and whine about it when it affects one of their own.
“The left has never engaged in cancel culture and called for people to be fired. They only created the damn game,” she scoffs, pointing to recent headlines from CBS News, People, and Poynter defending Kimmel against calls from President Trump and Melania for his firing.
But despite mainstream media coming to his rescue, Sara is hopeful that Kimmel will actually be canned this time.
“There is a new sheriff in town at Disney,” she says, referring to Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger as CEO of Disney in March this year.
D’Amaro, she says, may do things differently to avoid the scandals that pushed Iger out the door.
“This is going to be his first test of going head-to-head with President Trump, and the same sort of drama took down a former Disney CEO, so … you would imagine he’s going to want to stay on President Trump’s good side,” she speculates.
But on top of playing nice with Trump, there’s also the issue of Kimmel’s unpopularity.
“I mean, when you look at his ratings, he doesn't seem to be worth saving,” says Sara, displaying a chart of Kimmel’s cataclysmic fall from peak popularity in 2015 to all-time lows in 2026.
“I'm just trying to will [Kimmel’s firing] into existence. … Can you blame me?” she asks. “I just want these people to … have a taste of their own medicine.”
To hear more and watch the Kimmel clips, check out the video above.
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Comedian defends Jimmy Kimmel from cancel culture: ‘It’s still a joke’
Jimmy Kimmel’s “widow” joke about first lady Melania Trump has sparked sharp criticism from the Trump administration — with President Donald Trump and Melania Trump going so far as to call for ABC to fire the comedian.
“Our first lady, Melania, is here. ... So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in his monologue.
Not only did the president and the first lady not find the joke funny, but the timing made its reception even worse.
“As the first lady of the United States pointed out this morning, just two days prior to the shooting, ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called first lady Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow,’” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said after the most recent attempt on President Trump’s life.
“Who in their right mind says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband?” Leavitt continued.
“And having experienced what I did with the first lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that. This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady, and his supporters is completely deranged,” she added.
While members of the Trump administration have made it clear they’re not happy with Kimmel, BlazeTV host and comedian Dave Landau has a controversial take.
“I’m going to go ahead and say that’s a funny joke,” he tells co-host Stu Burguiere.
“You like the joke,” Stu comments, surprised.
“It’s fine. You keep trying to kill him, so they’re saying you have a good look for an expectant widow. I understand that people don’t like the guy who’s saying it, but there’s logic and reason to the joke, and it’s a still a joke,” Landau says.
“You don’t have to like it, but I will never be on the side of throw somebody off of TV or cancel them based on something that was a joke,” he continues.
“We agree on that,” Burguiere says, adding, “I’m totally with you.”
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'Pure insanity': Alabama news anchor under fire for quoting Islamic terrorist during sign-off
An Alabama news anchor drew fierce backlash after she quoted the founder of a designated terrorist organization during her on-air sign-off.
During a Thursday evening broadcast on Birmingham's ABC 33/40, WBMA-LD, Ashonti Ford, 38, told viewers, "Before we go, a quote from the founder of the Islamic Brotherhood: 'The quieter you become, the more you're able to hear.'"
'The intent of our closing segment is always to end the newscast on a positive and thoughtful note.'
Ford was quoting the late Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) reacted to the on-air moment, writing in a post on X, "Pure insanity. The Radical Muslim Brotherhood is a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION."
One X user responded, "Who made the decision to use the quote? That clown has to go!"
"She needs to be terminated!!" another individual wrote in response to Ford's comments.
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In January, the State and Treasury Departments designated Muslim Brotherhood branches as Specially Designated Global Terrorist groups.
Jeff Cox, a news director for ABC 33/40, which Sinclair Broadcast Group operates, apologized for the quotation on Monday, AL.com reported.
"The intent of our closing segment is always to end the newscast on a positive and thoughtful note," Cox said. "The quote included that evening was not intended to convey any political or ideological message."
"However, we understand it was perceived that way and on behalf of the station, I sincerely apologize to those who were offended," Cox added.
He asserted that Ford had no role in selecting the quote and stated that the matter was addressed internally.
"Although this quote was read by Ashonti Ford, Ashonti had nothing to do with the selection," Cox continued. "We have addressed the matter internally, and we are making adjustments to ensure our content consistently meets our editorial standards moving forward."
A Sinclair spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "ABC 33/40 is reinforcing its editorial review protocols to ensure content aligns with the station's standards."
"ABC 33/40 has an established editorial process for reviewing content. In this case, that process fell short, and the station has taken steps to strengthen it moving forward," the spokesperson continued. "The station's on-air talent was not involved in the selection of the quote. This was an editorial matter, which has been addressed through our internal processes."
Ford was not disciplined and remains on air, according to Fox News Digital.
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