Michael Eisner, Disney’s former CEO who helmed the company for 21 years, has attacked the higher-ups at his former company after Jimmy Kimmel’s show was “suspended indefinitely.”
“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 wrote on X.
Eisner was Disney’s CEO from 1984 until 2005, when he cordially passed the position on to Bob Iger.
Eisner even backed Iger’s return to CEO in 2024 as Iger threw a boardroom coup to take the spot back from Bob Chapek who briefly held it. But now, he’s firing back against Kimmel’s suspension from his network show on ABC, which is owned by Disney.
“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 continued in his tweet. “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.’ By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.”
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