Former late-night host David Letterman responded to ABC taking comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air on Wednesday night, hammering President Trump’s administration for purportedly creating “managed media.”

“And then my good friend Jimmy Kimmel. I just, I feel bad about this because we all see where this is going, correct? It’s managed media and it’s no good. It’s silly; it’s ridiculous; and you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works,” Letterman said Thursday while at The Atlantic Festival in New York City.

ABC suspended Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments he made about last week’s killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

On Monday, Kimmel said the

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