White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Kayleigh McEnany\u2019s new Fox News program Saturday in America to discuss former President Barack Obama\u2019s remarks on the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfter years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn\u2019t like,\u201d Obama posted to X on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent \u2014 and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in remarks to McEnany, Leavitt said Obama\u2019s statement wreaks of cluelessness. \u201cWith all due respect to former President Obama, he has no idea what he\u2019s talking about,\u201d Leavitt asserted. \u201cThe decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and to c READ MORE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Kayleigh McEnany\u2019s new Fox News program Saturday in America to discuss former President Barack Obama\u2019s remarks on the indefinite suspension of Jimmy … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}