Axing Jimmy Kimmel Is Government Suppression of Political Speech!

[jc456]

Wow, do you ever do anything other than troll?

well this is due to a violation of FCC licenses. Has nothing to do with free speech. See, the FCC has rules within the licensing. You should probably get an education.

 

[Papageorgio]

Disney fired Kimmel. You have no freedom of speech rights from an employer, only from Government. Chill out.

The problenm is ABC responded after the FCC gave them an ultimatum. Government should not threaten a private industry over free speech. I dislike Kimmel a lot, he is a mouthpiece of division and hate and under our Constitution he has a right to say it and ABC has a right to air it.

 

[jc456]

He cracked a joke about the MAGANUTS response to the lone assassin being from a MAGA family. He said nothing reprehensible about poor Mr. Kirks assassination.

he violated the broadcast license on content allowed. Been that way since forever.

 

[blackhawk]

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences or accountability. Kimmel had the right to say what he did and local affiliates had the right to say they were disgusted by it and dump the show and ABC had to suspend it nowhere in the first amendment is there a guarantee of having a talk show as part of freedom of speech. There is wise expression just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should this is something people should remember.

 

[sartre play]

Local affiliates couldn't sell advertising time.

Hopefully they will adopt Kimmel as a hero like Kilmar García, Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson

THE Poor guy is dead, and now being USED for political propaganda.
No rest for those Extremes, Either side.

 

[jc456]

THE Poor guy is dead, and now being USED for political propaganda.
No rest for those Extremes, Either side.

I enjoyed his blackface impressions as a basketball player. Nothing like insulting blacks. I also believe the dude used the forbidden N word.

 

[buckeye]

doctors and nurses lost their jobs.

Some of them lost their licenses to practice medicine, too.

Just for bringing their observations and thoughts to their patients and the general public.

 

[jc456]

Some of them lost their licenses to practice medicine, too.

Just for bringing their observations and thoughts to their patients and the general public.

and our fine demofkers in here said it served them right for risking patient health. But, we found out later they were fking correct and were never reestablished.

 

[Darkwind]

It is very hard to argue that the media is liberal given recent developments. They’re conservative. Doing what would please Trump.

Wow, just how radicalized are you that you think the media is right wing and doing Trumps bidding?

I thought you couldn't go any further left than the media without becoming a Pol Pot.

 

[MarathonMike]

What Jimmy said in his monologue was not encouraging or supporting political violence they were attempts to find humor in the situation

WTF??? Find humor in the public assassination of a highly respected figure, a young Father and Husband? What kind of ghoul would even ATTEMPT to "find humor" in that? Jesus Christ Jim get your head out of your arse.

 

[AntonToo]

It seems you're lying as it wasn't "regulators". It was Biden's White House.

CNN —
Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of the social media company Meta, said in a letter to the House Judiciary committee on Monday that his teams were “pressured” by the Biden White House to censor some content around the Covid-19 pandemic.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg said.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021

I stand corrected on White House involvement. And although Biden's Whitehouse members is not the same as Biden, I'm not going to quibble and accept that Biden may have had input on trying to address COVID-19 MISINFORMATION on social media platform, which had very tangible public healthcare outcomes.

Thats not the nearly the same as explicit regulatory threats, not nearly the same as holding hostage big merger decisions, not nearly the same as going after political opposition.

 

[postman]

Being fired for what you say is not the same as being thrown in prison for what you say... so Kimmel can continue to lie but not on ABC... plus his show sucked and was not making money....

Yet both actions were government sanctioned. And the irony is that Kimmel didn't say anything bad about Kirk.
He disparaged Robinson, and in a way no different than somebody calling John Wilkes Booth a republican.

 

[postman]

how? explain it for us.

Using the FCC to go after speech you don't like. By denying them regulatory approval.

 

[Rambunctious]

Yet both actions were government sanctioned. And the irony is that Kimmel didn't say anything bad about Kirk.
He disparaged Robinson, and in a way no different than somebody calling John Wilkes Booth a republican.

There is no way the network would fire him if his show was popular... he had lost his audience just like Stern... TDS will do that...

 

[postman]

WTF??? Find humor in the public assassination of a highly respected figure, a young Father and Husband? What kind of ghoul would even ATTEMPT to "find humor" in that? Jesus Christ Jim get your head out of your arse.

Kimmel said nothing bad about Kirk, he made a comment about Robinson.
No different than someone making a comment about Thomas Matthew Crooks.

 

[jc456]

Using the FCC to go after speech you don't like. By denying them regulatory approval.

ABC has a broadcast license they must comply with. You should probably educate yourself on licensing.

All ABC had to do was pay a fine.

 

[USAF 2023]

In my opinion, what happened to Jimmy Kimmel with him being taken off the air for his comments surrounding Charlie Kirk in his opening monologue is alarming because it will suppress comments of other late night and daytime talk show hosts and comedians in so far as pressuring them not to say anything that is or can be construed as critical of the current Presidential administration because there may be severe personal and business repercussions for doing so. This is bad for America's Democracy because if suppression of political speech which this is in at least a broad sense is allowed to exist in one sector of society it will have a contagion to suppress political speech in other settings and this will result in our government not being as good as it should because avoiding legitimate criticism motivates people in government to act in a good and best manner. This action against Jimmy Kimmel is simply an intolerable assault on our Democracy and our way-of-life!

What Jimmy said in his monologue was not encouraging or supporting political violence they were attempts to find humor in the situation, one may find it tasteless and not funny but nevertheless it was speech whose only purpose was to try to be humorous! Supporters of this outcome say there was nothing wrong here Jimmy's employer ABC is free to fire and hire who they want and they chose to fire Jimmy. No No No this is not the whole story government action inappropriately got involved in this situation. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC which regulates TV stations, publicly essentially said that the TV station needs to act in this situation and discipline Jimmy Kimmel or the FCC will commence an investigation and bring sanctions against this late-night talk show employer over this matter. In essence what the chairman of the FCC did in this instance is that it suppressed political speech on this late-night talk show program and this is a dangerous precedent that should not be able to stand!

Before suggesting what America should do to stop this assault on political speech it really bears mentioning what is going on here. President Donald Trump our current President has a major flaw in his character in so far as he uses the levers of power of the Presidency to penalize people and organizations he doesn't like.
In the instant case he is using the FCC to penalize a late-night comedian that criticized him and got under his skin. This is just speculation on this writer's part gleaned from videos of Trump and Charlie Kirk together but I think Jimmy hit a nerve implying President Trump wasn't too affected by Charlie's assassination because I don't think President Trump really liked Charlie the President doesn't like people to tell him what to do and Charlie because of his popularity amongst America's youth could to a large degree tell the President he shouldn't do this or should do that and Charlie was ultra-Conservative, deep down President Trump isn't an ultra-Conservative he is a real estate and marketing mogul Playboy from New York!

This definitely won't happen because President Trump is President but what America should do is pass a law that says any radio, TV and video outlet that receives a fine and/or sanctions by the FCC that penalizes an entity over political speech that entity has the right to sue the FCC to block it and whether or not it goes to court or is settled before hand the suing organization will get all its legal and defense fees paid for if the case goes to trial and the plaintiff prevails the entity will get ten million dollars or three time the financial penalty the FCC was seeking up to fifty million dollars. The law should also explicitly say that grounds for impeachment for the Chairperson and any member of the Commission of the FCC are if they support an investigation and/or vote for penalties against a business that is about suppressing political speech. What the American people should do to fight this suppression of political speech is call for the removal from their jobs of three people in authority in ABC and Nextstar that are highly culpable in this hit job on Jimmy. These three cowards should not only lose their jobs but should be blackballed in corporate America the message should be sent to executives in the media industry that you have a civil duty to stand up for free speech especially political speech and there will be grave consequences to caving to bullies in Washington D.C.!

Republicans in Congress are cowards and won't stand up to President Trump and call for this type of legislation. But Democrats should call for this legislation and commit that once they get control of Congress and the White House they will enact it so to stop any future President that wants to be an authoritarian President like Donald Trump from being able to do so! On a separate subject it has been reported in the media that the Democrats are prepared to shut down the government over the funding of the government bill if it does not contain provisions extending the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies for individual health insurance that are set to expire this year. I think this is an outstanding right move by the Democrats with the one proviso; Democrats don't make this stand on the seven week continuing resolution bill Republicans are pushing. Shutdowns are very painful for the nation let the Republicans postpone the fight for seven weeks in November of this year Americans will still be getting the enhanced premium subsidies then. It is an extremely righteous cause fighting for the enhanced premiums this affects twenty-two million Americans and if the subsidy isn't continued the average health insurance premium will be going up seventy-five percent, to be candid many of these American families just won't have the money to pay this higher health insurance bill! The political realities highly favor the Democrats goal here some Republicans have voiced support for the continuation and the closer we get to January 1, 2026 more Republicans will come aboard because that is what their constituents want!

Jimmy Kimmel show off air ‘indefinitely’ after his Kirk comments | Fox 11 Tri Cities Fox 41 Yakima

Jimmy Kimmel's late-night television show has been taken off the air "indefinitely" after the host was criticized for comments about the motives behind the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, US network ABC said Wednesday. The stunning decision to suspend one of the United States'...

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Maybe YOU can tell us how Kimmel was “ trying to make a Joke” by inserting Politics. He’s a “ MAGA Conservative!” Is that why everything a Conservative might be for he was against? Is that he killed another Conservative? YOU believe in “ free speech?” LOL Please tell the last time he or anyone who has a Liberal talk show had a CONSERVATIVE. Please tell us why CONSERVATIVES are VERBOTEN on College Campuses, they have to go on with security and with all that they have to leave. Conservatives were silenced when Biden ran Were you complaining? Of course not

 

[hadit]

What he said was that regulators asked for co-operation and made suggestions to specifically address Covid misinformation as a matter of public health issue, not specifically political opposition.

Zuckerberg said he regretted not pushing back (this coming from a guy who's company's profits are driven by maximizing eyeballs)

He was clearly intimidated.

There were never any explicit regulatory retribution threats against Facebook and there has never been any evidence of Biden's own involvement in any of these matters to go after political opposition.

And the mafia never actually threatened anyone either. "Nice little social media platform you have here. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it. But work with us and we won't have to look real hard into some of those tax write-offs you've been claiming. Wouldn't want anyone to think you're not paying your fair share, now would we?

 

[hadit]

ABC has a broadcast license they must comply with. You should probably educate yourself on licensing.

All ABC had to do was pay a fine.

And that's where the rubber meets the road. ABC already had restrictions on what they could air if they wanted to keep that license.

 

[buckeye]

I stand corrected on White House involvement. And although Biden's Whitehouse members is not the same as Biden, I'm not going to quibble and accept that Biden may have had input on trying to address COVID-19 MISINFORMATION on social media platform, which had very tangible public healthcare outcomes.

Thats not the nearly the same as explicit regulatory threats, not nearly the same as holding hostage big merger decisions, not nearly the same as going after political opposition.

Biden was a puppet to his own administration. He did what he was told.

He told us that many times. Why don't you know this already?

And how is it better if it wasn't Biden himself but his administration??? Biden allowed it and its clear he successfully intimidated FB as well as many others found in the twitter files to do as they were told.

You have zero higher ground here.