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

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Post by ceejayoz »

_9za9 wrote: post #660
rezonant wrote: post #635

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your post deliberately leaves out the statements from the FCC threatening action, which spooked Nexstar who has business with the FCC. Maybe you weren't aware of this fact despite it being literally the headline shown on the very page you are commenting on: > ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

Your post deliberately leaves out statements from Sinclair and Nexstar themselves. "In a statement posted online, Sinclair praised the Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr and called the comic’s remarks “inappropriate and deeply insensitive”." "Inappropriate and deeply insensitive", but I suppose you, and the others here like you, believe it is appropriate and timely to spread misinformation as long…

No one can be this genuinely naïve.

“Yes, the kidnapped torture victim in my basement dungeon is fine. Here, they wrote a note saying so.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton

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Post by croon »

_9za9 wrote: post #660
rezonant wrote: post #635

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your post deliberately leaves out the statements from the FCC threatening action, which spooked Nexstar who has business with the FCC. Maybe you weren't aware of this fact despite it being literally the headline shown on the very page you are commenting on: > ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

Your post deliberately leaves out statements from Sinclair and Nexstar themselves. "In a statement posted online, Sinclair praised the Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr and called the comic’s remarks “inappropriate and deeply insensitive”." "Inappropriate and deeply insensitive", but I suppose you, and the others here like you, believe it is appropriate and timely to spread misinformation as long…

Were those comments made before or after the direct and described causal threat made by Carr?

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Post by TowerTall »

nullocator wrote: post #632
TowerTall wrote: post #609

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“The Maga Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.

What is incorrect about that statement? The shooter grew up in a MAGA/Republican household. There are lots of examples over the last week of the Trump admin and MAGA personalities using Charlie Kirks death for political gain. In fact I would say them using Charlie Kirk's death to cancel Jimmy Kimmel is literally them using his death for political gain.

There is nothing incorrect about that statement

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Post by sharken »

FranzFerdiNaN wrote: post #628
shirro wrote: post #466

Kimmel discussed the political response to Kirk's death, not the man, which is a class move that respects his family and the law. I can't see the problem. How many companies, media people and politicians need to bend the knee before someone stands up and says this has all gone far enough?

The problem is that America is now ruled by a de facto king, who uses the power of the state to submit corporations and people to do his bidding.

Also, there is quite a bit of money on the line, you can't really blame ABC for acting as a corporation:

https://latenighter.com/news/jimmy-kimmels-removal-comes-ami...

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Post by croon »

billfor wrote: post #546

FCC aside, how is it any different from ABC canceling Rosanne Barr because of something she said? They may cancel whomever and whatever they want, which in the past has been due to pressure from the outside, justified or not. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roseanne-barr-obama-adviser-...

> FCC aside, how is it any different from ABC canceling Rosanne Barr because of something she said? They may cancel whomever and whatever they want, which in the past has been due to pressure from the outside, justified or not.

You are trying to draw a conclusion from the information available, and then you ask: What if I ignore the central piece of evidence?

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Post by snitty »

themaninthedark wrote: post #603
snitty wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, too, remember when Obama has the FCC commissioner threaten to revoke broadcast licenses for the coverage of his tan suit. This type of both-sides-ism is dumb, especially here when one side is using the power of the federal government to get dissenting voices taken off the air.

In the 2019 through at least 2022, Government agencies were "recommending" and "cautioning" social media companies on topics such as COVID and stories about laptops.

Two things here.

1. Trump was president in 2019 and 2020.

2. There is an important difference between a bureaucrat calling up someone at Facebook at arguing a position about policy and the chair of the FCC threatening to remove broadcast licenses. Notable, Supreme Court has even weighed in on the former and found it well within the rights of the government to do.

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Post by cebert »

pogue wrote: post #193
enlightens wrote: post #172

The summary at the top of the page says > ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. but the article says the following, which is entirely different: > “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everyth…

The 2nd part is the quote from Jimmy Kimmel that he said on air that caused the "controversy", that resulted in the FCC commissioner, Brendan Carr to go on a podcast and threaten ABC/Disney with retaliatory action if they refused to take Kimmel off the air. CNN doesn't show a clip, but explains what was said & the events that caused this. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/business/video/abc-jimmy-kimm... Never believe t…

This isn’t a free-speech issue. Kimmel was free to say what he said, and I personally don’t find his comments egregiously offensive. However, clearly some people did. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. In this case, his employer responded to partner backlash over his remarks.

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Post by sharken »

uncircle wrote: post #644
Garlef wrote: post #636

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was loads of pre-WW2 mockery of Hitler. It did not matter a lot in the end. So: As much as I admire Mel Brooks, this is just wishful thinking.

Yeah, how did satire fare when Hitler was in power? Let's perhaps say that if satire doesn't directly prevent authoritarianism, it works as a very effective canary in the mine.

Tove Jansson, the creator of the Moomins got away with it in 1944.

https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/before-creating-the-moom...

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Post by raxxorraxor »

ceejayoz wrote: post #670
raxxorraxor wrote: post #658

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The First Amendment protects my rights to say you are being an asshole. The First Amendment also forbids the government from punishing you for merely being an asshole.

Yeah, that argument too. I didn't mention the first amendment though. For example it is also a requirement for basic science within the framework of enlightenment.

I get the xkcd and it certainly has a valid context. This is not it though. This retort just underlines a perspective that is characterized by severe lack of foresight, simple as that.

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Post by LeafItAlone »

atoav wrote: post #631
suzdude wrote: post #614

Mel Brooks had the right of it. Fascism and Authoritarianism is defeated by satire and mockery. The ideology is too outrageous to survive any such scrutiny. Why else would the administration be so afraid of a few jokes?

I have read that the Joe Rogan school of comedy, that has grown popular in the past decade, did so on the grounds on fighting liberal "cancel culture". Back then they were rebelling against what was painted as a predominant culture, now that they have overachieved, one wonders if they would also fight cancle culture when it is coming from thr political right. I am not very optimistic about that. But maybe we get new…

>Joe Rogan school of comedy

Joe Rogan, the Fear Factor host turned Right Wing podcaster? Is he know for comedy? I thought his brief failed stint of stand up comedy is why he switched to podcasting.

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