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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Sep 19, 2025, 07:42 PM Friday

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Slams Bob Iger Over Kimmel Suspension: 'Where Has All the Leadership Gone?

Source: The Wrap

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner slammed Bob Iger over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, asking Friday where the leaders who will stand up to the “bullies” and defend Americans’ right to freedom of speech have gone.

“Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?,” Eisner, who served as Disney’s CEO from 2005 to 2015, said in an X post Friday.

“The ‘suspending indefinitely’ of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the chairman of the FCC’s aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation,” he went on. “Maybe the Constitution should have said, ‘Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one’s political or financial self-interest.’”

At the end of his message he noted that “by-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny” — a jab at conservatives who continue to call Kimmel unfunny while making slights at his viewership.




Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/former-disney-ceo-michael-eisner-181858388.html
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Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Slams Bob Iger Over Kimmel Suspension: 'Where Has All the Leadership Gone? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday OP
"It's not a principle until it costs you money." C_U_L8R Friday #1
'Where Has All the Leadership Gone? republianmushroom Friday #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Polybius Friday #3
Eisner is the former CEO being referred to in the article. He is criticizing Iger, the current CEO. nt 24601 Yesterday #5
Thanks, will self-delete Polybius Yesterday #7
Are Kimmel and Colbert MW67 Friday #4
This message was self-deleted by its author fujiyamasan Yesterday #6

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5. Eisner is the former CEO being referred to in the article. He is criticizing Iger, the current CEO. nt
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 12:20 AM
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MW67

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4. Are Kimmel and Colbert
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:03 PM
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Being took of the air ,cases of real and enforceable penalties ? ( Having network license suspended or revoked and being taken off air!! ) Or cases of money grubbing, let's make the easy deal, ass kissing cowards? What do you think?

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