Fuck Jimmy Kimmel but his firing over saying his stupid libtard shit due to a governmental threat is a very bad thing. This is a very bad situation.
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What did he say? Something about Kirk?
It's all moving towards this
My understanding is he said Kirk was killed by a rightwinger so the FCC sent a letter to ABC who then fired him for either Hate speech, but Im trying to find the letter the FCC sent to confirm what it said, but this is a bad thing. The near instantaneous and coordinated180 the admin. did on the 1st A after Kirk's death is really troubling.
Idk who he is but I think they were just waiting for the right time to do this and that time came. Ultimately, ratings matter most because public opinion matters in public broadcasting.
I'm not a fan of Kimmel, but this is not hate speech. If anything its a conspiracy theory.
The entire Kirk thing, including this, is troubling to me. Its like 'they' are pushing us towards violence amongst ourselves. Can't have both sides wanting the Epstein files released. 😮💨
I guess I double down on homesteading and building local community.
This is the way, God bless you and your efforts.
I agree that ABC may just be using this as pretext, but its constitutionally invalid pretext that is extremely troublesome.
The pretext *was* flimsy, but he was not a “comedian” exercising free speech, but an operative, a paid propagandist whose ratings did not justify his salary. Good argument ABC violated the terms of the FCC over the public airwaves, but ideally FCC shouldn’t have been involved, just the affiliates whose audiences he had alienated.
Either way, big win for humanity, wouldn’t sweat this one at all, even if the admin has definitely overreached in other areas.
Do you have a link to the FCC document, Id like to see it. Between this and Pam Bondi's recent "hate speech" comments, it all seems very unsettling to me.
Also, how dare you be reasonable.
The letter they sent? I haven't seen it, but I saw the terms of the broadcasting license somewhere. Bondi’s comments were atrocious, but she was forced by her own base to walk them back a few hours later.
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Was there a letter or was it the FCC chair running his mouth on Tucker? Additionally, Kimmel's show was expensive and tanking in viewership, was this a convenient excuse to cut ties while trying to jump on the right-bound cultural pendulum swing
Who even watches late-night anymore? ABC didn’t can Kimmel over “free speech,” they canned him over ratings. But sure, they’ll spin it like it’s about his words.
I’m confused about some bits of detail because it’s nexstar that opened up about firing him and not ABC. Nexstar is not all of ABC stations either. So when does what could be a valid business decision become unconstitutional.
It's similar to Chokepoint 1.0 and 2.0, when the government exerts undue influence on private parties to get them to do things the government, because of the constitution, could not do. ABC or whatever entity is probably within its rights to do what they do, subject to Kimmels contract, etc., but the look is a government willing to use its monopoly on violence to coerce or stifle free speech, which is big bad and sad.
I see what you mean. I do think this administration is trying to undo the propaganda and bias in the current media by exerting their own powers.
Thank you so much for saying this. All I saw on Nostr on the day was all about free speech, "I'll die for free speech,""civil war over this for trying to suppress free speech," etc
Then day two was all about firing people for what they said, stopping hate speech, etc.
I've been very confused.
Whiplash indeed.
I’m also interested in seeing the source document.