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ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

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Post by maxerickson »

GeekyBear wrote: post #96
armenarmen wrote: post #12

The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.

> The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. If you are going to morally judge the actions behind cancellation attempts, "I don't find Dave Chappelle's jokes funny" is not morally equivalent to "I don't think people should celebrate the murder of those they disagree with."

Jimmy Kimmel didn't celebrate a murder. He criticized the cynical exploitation of a murder.

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Post by ceejayoz »

bitlax wrote: post #108
lawlessone wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what did he do here? rate limited when i replied to you so my response below: >We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.” Where is the lie?

[flagged]

That said…?

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Post by rolph »

_wire_ wrote: post #87

Republicans are continually outraged by cancel culture, and Republican hypocrisy is (without hyperbole) sociopathic. News just today-- Republican DoJ censored longitudinal study previously published by DoJ which revealed that far and away the most U.S. political violence is perpetrated by... Republicans! Both internally and internationally. Utah Republicans put a suicide watch on Kirk-shooting suspect because they wa…

"Noem is bragging that she shot the family hunting dog because he was "worthless"; all he would do is "massacre chickens" at her hunting lodge, and tried to bite her. She also put down a "disgusting, musky billy goat" that lived around her compound. She said wanted to come clean and show how she can "responsibility". She bragged that the story of shooting her dog got her the top slot at ICE."

this is so chillingly reminiscent of a serial killers autobiography.

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Post by ceejayoz »

bitlax wrote: post #88
armenarmen wrote: post #12

The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_body_count_conspiracy_... dates back at least to the mid 90s.

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Post by somewholeother »

tptacek wrote: post #62
armenarmen wrote: post #12

The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation. Seems that now they've adopted a "turnaround is fair play" mentality.

This is one of those interminable sprawling message board arguments that has a really simple resolution nobody wants to accept, which is that commitment to free expression and "right/left" are mostly orthogonal, and both the right and the left weaponize commitment to free expression when it makes sense for them to.

The horseshoe is a bit like a boomerang in that regard, both in form and function!

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Post by bix6 »

defrost wrote: post #44
dismalaf wrote: post #14

Believe it or not, alienating politics isn't great for business. Neither is peddling conspiracy theories.

What I had believed, as an outsider to the US, was that US Federal politicians directly leveraging business decisions over a speech issue was explicitly unconstitutional. What I've come to realise is that few are prepared to bell the cat and prosecute unconstitutional behaviour.

We’re trying but the lower courts keep getting overruled by a corrupt Supreme Court.

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Post by davesque »

I believe this is the clip in question? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk

As much as I can tell, they're mad because Kimmel pointed out a couple of instances where Trump seemed to care more about his new ballroom at the WH than about the recent murder of Kirk.

I've been reluctant to toss around the f-word, but it doesn't feel like an exaggeration to call this fascism. Kimmel said nothing that should have warranted a suspension.

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Post by allturtles »

xp84 wrote: post #109
tptacek wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Colbert was almost certainly on track to be cancelled anyways. The program was tremendously expensive and was losing boatloads of money. I don't know if Trump accelerated the cancellation or not, but the writing was on the wall.

Indeed, it was just a smart move by Viacom/whatever to curry some favor with Trump by doing it now instead of waiting for another time, figuring that favor would be more valuable than the bad PR they earned. Probably a good bet since with the mergers (including the one they themselves were supposedly trying to push across the finish line) it's impractical to hold grudges for long. With only a few oligarchic firms in…

It's exactly the problem that currying favor with the President is a smart move for businesses.
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