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But that is untrue... ABC said so.... the local affiliates pressured ABC.... now try answering my question....
Axing Jimmy Kimmel Is Government Suppression of Political Speech!
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jc456
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look up what the FCC fined them for. I don't care and not wasting my time.
yep and?
Marener
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The lib hypocrisy is bleeding all over USMB today.... Roseanne Barr... Tucker Carlson... a lot of media folks lose their jobs for inflammatory statements....
Death-Ninja
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See how the demonic roll, see the fascist democrat demon as it ludicrously seeks to completely minimize the vile, see that, its all a ******* lie, it lives almost exclusively in a lie! Here is a n especially vile, and evil creature, doing exactly the same thing, and this vile, and evil creature clearly set up the United States for the demonic spirit which now controls all fascist democrats in totality, see how the evil servant of the pit as always, seeks to divide! It is my hope that we see this evil ******* thing pay the full price for its evil, yes, we must see it pay in full for the evil it serves...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!
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Jimmy Kimmel's free speechrights are intact. He has not been silenced.
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Untrue... call them yourself... now did you say anything when Roseanne got fired?... yes or no.... simple question... I guess non answer is no....
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Yep he is still whining today....
Marener
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Roseanne got fired for making a tweet that people saw as pretty racist. Had nothing to do with the topic.
I heard the FCC chairman threatening TV stations. I don’t have to ask them.
Mac1958
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I really try not to be surprised any more, but this just happened:
Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are ‘against’ him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended
The threat alone is flagrantly un-American. Those who support this person and what he is doing are either neofascists or useful idiots. You people are going to have to make some decisions pretty soon, and I'll bet most of you already have.
Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are ‘against’ him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended
The threat alone is flagrantly un-American. Those who support this person and what he is doing are either neofascists or useful idiots. You people are going to have to make some decisions pretty soon, and I'll bet most of you already have.
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Who on the right wept for Bill Maher when he got shit canned for his free speech? Did GWB call for revoking ABC's broadcast license to get him fired? Nope. I don't think there was even a hint of FCC pressure on ABC. ABC decided to fire him. Kimmel's firing looks too coordinated to be just ABC. If it was coordinated then doesn't that mean possible conspiracy to violate the Constitution if the Regime was involved? When will Congress investigate the Regime? Hahaha hahaha just kidding.....
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Barr got fired for supporting Trump and admitting she voted for him... you are a hypocrite... and the FCC did not get Blackface fired... his ratings and his lie about who the shooter was did... and he is not even fired he is suspended so that alone kills your argument....
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I did... you can look up my posts... I got yelled at by folks on the right...
Marener
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You’re increasingly delusional.
jc456
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there's the cover. only thee and not for me.
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And you are a raging hypocrite...
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Dude, the government didn't axe Kimmel off the air, HIS EMPLOYER DID. ABC caught so much flack for the backlash from viewers over his idiotic, incendiary remarks, that it left them no choice.
ABC tried to cut their loses.
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There is free speech, and there is consequences of free speech. Lying comes with consequences.
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and he is bleeding money with no ratings -
If he had good ratings and was a revenue stream -
ABC would be - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The major networks broadcast over the air as well as cable and streaming. The FCC is supposed to promote civility and standards. We have left that decades ago. To the point where it is politically motivated to the advantage of Progressive Socialist Communists. You are so smug with your feeling of superiority and have gotten used to trampling everyone who came up to question you. You destroyed many Republicans over the years including the Tea Party candidates who were common citizens. You know, the people you say you support. With Trump, you threw everything at him including the kitchen sink. The 2016 election was proof enough to me that you cheat. You did not cheat enough.
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