A shooter opened fire on a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, causing yet another horrific mass shooting in the United States. Celebrities and regular people alike have expressed their displeasure with the occurrence, which has sparked debate over gun regulation and mass shootings in the United States.
Jimmy Kimmel, the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live, addressed the event in his opening monologue on Wednesday. However, a Texas network chopped the monologue short, leaving many to wonder if it was intentional suppression.
Officials said an 18-year-old shooter opened fire at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, killing at least 19 children as he moved from classroom to classroom.
It was the bloodiest school shooting in in a decade and the latest awful moment for a country traumatised by a run of mass shootings. Law enforcement shot and killed the assailant. Two adults were also killed, according to officials. One of the two, said to Governor Greg Abbott, was a teacher.
Jimmy began his monologue sans the studio audience on Wednesday in an uncharacteristically quiet manner. The comic says he was fighting back tears the entire time, “Once again we grieve for the little boys and girls, whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed. While our leaders on the right, the Americans in congress and at Fox News and these other outlets warn us not to politicize this.”
Added, “They immediately criticize our president for even speaking about doing something to stop it. Because they don’t want to speak about it because they know what they’ve done and they know what they haven’t done. And they know it’s indefensible, so they’d rather sweep this under the rug.”
Jimmy tweeted that he later learned from fans and other comments that his monologue, in which he also slammed Texas Governor Abbott, had been cancelled by a state television network. “To my friends in Dallas who are asking: I do not know whether our ABC Network affiliate WFAA cut away from my monologue tonight intentionally or inadvertently but I will find out,” Kimmel tweeted, adding his whole speech to the post for those in Dallas who “didn’t get to see.”
As per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Kimmel’s six-minute monologue was cut off by a string of commercials, beginning with an in-house WFAA/Ch. 8 news spot. The ABC affiliate played several more commercials before cutting back into the end of the monologue, which Kimmel used for a three-minute Everytown.org commercial. The gun violence prevention organization aims to enact ‘evidence-based solutions’ to curb gun violence.”
To my friends in Dallas who are asking: I do not know whether our @ABCNetwork affiliate @wfaa cut away from my monologue tonight intentionally or inadvertently but I will find out. In the meantime, here's what you didn't get to see https://t.co/tqfHoBHMwN
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 26, 2022
Jimmy received a tweet from the network apologising for actions their tweet said, “Our apologies for last night’s technical difficulties. Full explanation of the technical issues, and your full monologue can be found here (link).”
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