Axing Jimmy Kimmel Is Government Suppression of Political Speech!

[Mac1958]

Essentially only right wingers have rights, only right wingers's view are legitimate. Apparently.

It's happening more quickly than I would have imagined. But it's sure happening.

I have to wonder if the useful idiots are at all perturbed by this. If it rings any bells.

 

[WelfareQueen]

And it's all playing out, right according to the template.

A European history lesson in real time.

So Kimmel was thrown in prison by the Government for his speech like in Europe?

Nope. Didn't think so. More bullshit.

If you attempt to use an analogy at least have it be somewhat accurate. Yours is retarded.

 

[candycorn]

Should Jimmy had said what he said? No.
Did ABC have the right to do what it did? Yes.

I sort of think that Jimmy knew what he was doing though. No way did he not know what was going to happen.

IF that is true, that doesn't bode well for him. He'll be fine. The guys who won't be fine are the (likely) dozens of staffers on the show who now have a future in jeopardy.

 

[Dorian Mode]

It's happening more quickly than I would have imagined. But it's sure happening.

I have to wonder if the useful idiots are at all perturbed by this. If it rings any bells.

So, America is a fascist shithole full of racists, Nazis and stupid voters. Are you moving to a better country? Of course not. There are very few better countries, and I promise you none would ever allow a neo-leftist in to live and then start disparaging the government and its leadership. One thing you neo-leftists will never realize: Everything you hate about America, the neo-leftists caused it. YOU are the problem with America.

 

[frigidweirdo]

So, America is a fascist shithole full of racists, Nazis and stupid voters. Are you moving to a better country? Of course not. There are very few better countries, and I promise you none would ever allow a neo-leftist in to live and then start disparaging the government and its leadership. One thing you neo-leftists will never realize: Everything you hate about America is because the neo-leftists caused it. YOU are the problem with America.

Nazi Germany went fascist, and Germans weren't that bad. People are just easy to manipulate and political systems are easier to manipulate if the right checks and balances aren't in place.

What checks and balances are there? Supreme Court "we'll suck Trump's dick for money" and Congress "we'll suck Trump's dick for money".

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

And it's all playing out, right according to the template.

A European history lesson in real time.

La la la la la

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Kimmel was getting shit canned anyway
Any excuse for corporate to pull the trigger they're gonna pull the trigger

Ya phony fags

 

[Mac1958]

Nazi Germany went fascist, and Germans weren't that bad. People are just easy to manipulate and political systems are easier to manipulate if the right checks and balances aren't in place.

What checks and balances are there? Supreme Court "we'll suck Trump's dick for money" and Congress "we'll suck Trump's dick for money".

Most of the checks and balances have been taken care of. Not all, but most.

Another parallel.

 

[Dorian Mode]

Nazi Germany went fascist, and Germans weren't that bad. People are just easy to manipulate and political systems are easier to manipulate if the right checks and balances aren't in place.

What checks and balances are there? Supreme Court "we'll suck Trump's dick for money" and Congress "we'll suck Trump's dick for money".

Comments like that mean you are not to be taken seriously. It is amazing how democraps and neo-leftists are able to spot even the slightest thing to criticize their enemies, but did not notice anything that was happening during Biden's term, or Obama's two terms.

 

[OKTexas]

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!

The fact is ABC made the decision after affiliates said they weren't going to air Kimmel's show. I guess they got some major blowback from their viewers.

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[Eman623]

I find the crocodile tears from the left are making me ass-tired!

Kimmel was fired after pushing an offensive LIE! Next time show some ******* restraint! Conservatives have been doing this for years now. We learned to hold out tongues and not say insane shit because we knew the insane left would dox us and try to wreck our lives. Welcome to the real world.

Hopefully if both sides get the message that you need to be respectful and not, oh say be a complete asshole, then the temperature of the rhetoric will go down and we might be able to have civil conversations again.

Just a thought.

 

[Meathead]

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!

No, it was embarrassing to Kimmel and by extension to ABC and Disney, both who have had a lot of problems of late.

 

[Dorian Mode]

Kimmel was getting shit canned anyway
Any excuse for corporate to pull the trigger they're gonna pull the trigger

Ya phony fags

Notice that corporate America is doing mass layoffs yet the stocks of those companies keep going higher? Corporate America now has the green light to fire all the toxic neo-leftists who make the workplace a living hell and do absolutely nothing else. HATE, the principle driver of neo-leftists, is being cancelled and America will be so much better off for it. Yes, a lot of neo-leftists are going to find it very hard to ever get employment again and will become homeless. Let me repost a very apropos image posted on page 1 to respond to those who think this is unfair:

 

[Eman623]

Absolutely there was not just some pressure, but outright THREAT from FCC.

FCC Chairman Threatens ABC Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Remarks About Charlie Kirk’s Killer

Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, threatened action against ABC for Jimmy Kimmel's comment that Charlie Kirk's assassin is 'one of them.'

variety.com

Free market hard at work.

32 Affiliates said they would stop airing Kimmel after he lied on national TV in front of millions of Americans.

ABC had no choice. Either replace Kimmel or lose their affiliates.

 

[Eman623]

So, America is a fascist shithole full of racists, Nazis and stupid voters. Are you moving to a better country? Of course not. There are very few better countries, and I promise you none would ever allow a neo-leftist in to live and then start disparaging the government and its leadership. One thing you neo-leftists will never realize: Everything you hate about America, the neo-leftists caused it. YOU are the problem with America.

America is paradoxically the one country where the people who hate living here will never leave and even fight tooth and nail to be allowed to remain.

 

[Dorian Mode]

Hopefully if both sides get the message that you need to be respectful and not, oh say be a complete asshole, then the temperature of the rhetoric will go down and we might be able to have civil conversations again.

Without getting murdered. Or at best without being called a racist/Nazi/transphobe or being incessantly insulted in myriad other ways. I honestly don't think the neo-leftists will ever be capable of civil discourse.

 

[Mac1958]

"Say what you want, but beware the consequences".

A few years ago, I was squabbling with the lefties here about that anti-freedom of expression opinion.

Now, it's MAGA, saying that EXACT same thing. Only this time, from the very top.

 

[maj]

Does the Constitution say "fruitcakes" don't have freedom of speech?

What does that have to do with it?

 

[maj]

You don't want free speech for fruitcakes?

Fruitcakes don't like free speech.

 

[Eman623]

Without getting murdered. Or at best without being called a racist/Nazi/transphobe or being incessantly insulted in myriad other ways. I honestly don't think the neo-leftists will ever be capable of civil discourse.

My hope is those that cannot will not be given a platform to be part of the conversation. I certainly will not be engaging them.