Late night host Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday that his comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination that preceded his brief suspension by ABC were deliberately mischaracterized by his critics.

"It was intentionally, and I think maliciously, mischaracterized," Kimmel said in an appearance on "Bloomberg Screentime" with Bloomberg reporter Lucas Shaw.

Kimmel said the situation was "very unfair to my bosses at Disney," and they collectively "aimed to correct it."

At first the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host said he "didn't think there was a big problem" with what he had said after Kirk was shot. "I just saw it as distortion on the part of some of the right-wing media networks, and I aimed to correct it."

Kimmel realized there was a problem "when they pulled the show off the air," he told Shaw with a joking tone,........

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