Jen Psaki: Putin’s Takedown of Longtime Puppet Show Signals the Dangers of Trump’s Media Attacks

Jen Psaki: Putin’s takedown of longtime puppet show signals the dangers of Trump’s media attacks

Jen Psaki compares Trump's media crackdown and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show to Vladimir Putin's decades-old attacks on a puppet comedy show.

Longtime Trump Critic Defends ABC's Kimmel Move: 'Business Decision'

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo speculated that ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live after furious backlash against the network, and the show’s advertisers, as a simple business decision. The former CNN host and longtime Trump critic added that there is no evidence to suggest the FCC pressured the network to axe Kimmel’s show. The network announced Wednesday, September 17, that Kimmel’s show would be suspended after a number of…

'Kukly': Putin's version of Jimmy Kimmel

It was just a puppet show. What was there to fear?For eight years, the Russian television program ‘Kukly’ mocked politicians of all stripes, Western and Russian. By the time Vladimir Putin became president around the turn of the millennium, the show had already been running for six years, skewering the powerful and parodying and the self-important. Life size puppet of Russian president Vladimir Putin waits to play his part, June 29, 2000 on the …