Jimmy Kimmel controversy

[Jasmine]

Please tell me why taking his show off the air should bother me.

To me, it's a matter of consequences.

My husband's company has a strict policy that forbids employees from getting political on social media. They are not even allowed to publicly endorse political candidates.

So if my husband says something like, "Biden is a fossilized liar," the company could fire him. Or at the very least, suspend him and remove him from any project involving offended clients.

So what is different in the Kimmel case?

[Vrede too]

Please tell me why taking his show off the air should bother me.

To me, it's a matter of consequences.

My husband's company has a strict policy that forbids employees from getting political on social media. They are not even allowed to publicly endorse political candidates.

So if my husband says something like, "Biden is a fossilized liar," the company could fire him. Or at the very least, suspend him and remove him from any project involving offended clients.

So what is different in the Kimmel case?

Umm, Kimmel has been political for 22 years. Didn't you know? It's made his bosses a lot of money.

2 pages of Kimmel discussion beginning here:
https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 28#p218928

Cancel culture is alive and well.

Feckless fucks.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!' pulled off air 'indefinitely' by ABC over Charlie Kirk shooting comments
The announcement came after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel and said, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."

ABC announced on Wednesday that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show off the air “indefinitely” after Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chair, criticized comments Kimmel made earlier this week about the motives of the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Carr also suggested the FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way of forcing Disney, the network’s parent company, to punish Kimmel.

The controversy started Monday when Kimmel questioned the ideological leanings ascribed to Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson, and said the “MAGA gang” — i.e., supporters of President Trump and his “Make America great again” slogan — was trying to “score political points” by calling Robinson a left-wing radical.

https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1968475072672169993

This is about money again as Nextstar is looking for approval on a corporate merger.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/ ... 235430078/

Selected posts:

https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 43#p218943

Fair enough, although given the various and varied unfounded claims about the shooter, it was hardly a totally ridiculous thought. Anyway, he's entitled to his opinion and the issue isn't what he said or even about Disney's right to close his show. The issue is governmental threats used to stifle dissent. Unprecedented in the US by any other President of any party. Not so unusual in places like Soviet (or current) Russia, China, etc.

https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 60#p218960

The left accurately pointed out that Tyler Robinson could be MAGA given dissension/jealousies on the right, and accurately pointed out that he came from an ammosexual MAGA household in an ammosexual MAGA community in a MAGA state. It is those truths that the right is desperate to distract from, and that is ALL that Kimmel stated.

[O Really]

The difference is that the impetus to remove him did not come from his employer's policy. It came as pressure on his employer by the government, which is absolutely and without doubt a First Amendment violation.

[Jasmine]

The difference is that the impetus to remove him did not come from his employer's policy. It came as pressure on his employer by the government, which is absolutely and without doubt a First Amendment violation.

Did it really come from pressure by the government?

Or did it come from angry advertisers?

[GoCubsGo]

The difference is that the impetus to remove him did not come from his employer's policy. It came as pressure on his employer by the government, which is absolutely and without doubt a First Amendment violation.

Did it really come from pressure by the government?

Or did it come from angry advertisers?

Follow the money.

Jimmy Kimmel plainly stated that the assassin belonged to MAGA. That was an outright lie.

Show me the clip.

[Jasmine]

The difference is that the impetus to remove him did not come from his employer's policy. It came as pressure on his employer by the government, which is absolutely and without doubt a First Amendment violation.

Did it really come from pressure by the government?

Or did it come from angry advertisers?

Follow the money.

Jimmy Kimmel plainly stated that the assassin belonged to MAGA. That was an outright lie.

Show me the clip.

You didn't see it?

First few seconds.

https://youtu.be/4ATqJc2MjDY?si=sfKfB2Q1oKcwzPUE

[O Really]

You didn't hear what the FCC head said? Can you name any advertisers who pulled their ads?

[GoCubsGo]

Jimmy Kimmel plainly stated that the assassin belonged to MAGA. That was an outright lie.

Show me the clip.

You didn't see it?

First few seconds.

Yeah, I've already seen it.

The question is did you?

Jimmy Kimmel plainly stated that the assassin belonged to MAGA.

Jimmy Kimmel plainly stated that the assassin belonged to MAGA.

Where does he say that?

[O Really]

Suppose for sake of discussion that he did say "the shooter belonged to MAGA." So it appears he would have been wrong, but would he have been any more wrong or any worse than all the Repubs, from Trump on down, who were making wildly uninformed statements of blame? And if he had wrongly blamed MAGA for the shooter, a typical punishment would have been a pretend hand slap and an expression of opps. He wouldn't have been booted from the show except from the pressure of the government.

[O Really]

Yo, Jasmine - still think Kimmel's "suspension" wasn't government-inspired? Disney/ABC just found he had violated some "policy"? Ratings down?
Yeah, right - that's the ticket.

"Donald Trump says 'let Jimmy Kimmel rot' and threatens to sue ABC — again"

"I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do," Trump threatened on Tuesday, Sept. 23. "Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/ ... 40120.html

[GoCubsGo]

Disney had to be getting blasted from all sides. People canceled subscriptions left and right, actors refusing to work on their productions (think Marvel) amongst others.

Way to go MAGAts!

[Whack9]

Yo, Jasmine - still think Kimmel's "suspension" wasn't government-inspired? Disney/ABC just found he had violated some "policy"? Ratings down?
Yeah, right - that's the ticket.

"Donald Trump says 'let Jimmy Kimmel rot' and threatens to sue ABC — again"

"I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do," Trump threatened on Tuesday, Sept. 23. "Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/ ... 40120.html

"They gave me 16 million dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative"

Dude just says the quiet part out loud, it doesn't even matter anymore.

[Vrede too]

More info and discussion on the return of Jimmy begins here:
https://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtop ... 53#p219153