Margo Price performed her defiant anthem “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down” on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! — and it just may turn out to be the late-night show’s last musical performance.
On Wednesday, ABC pulled Kimmel’s show from the air over comments the host made surrounding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during Tuesday night’s monologue. Kimmel said, in part, that some right-wingers were trying to “score political points” in the aftermath of the shooting, and also played a clip of President Trump responding to a question about Kirk’s death by crowing about a new ballroom he’s constructing at the White House.
Apparently, this was too much for Nexstar, “America’s largest local television broadcasting group,” and ABC and its parent company, D