re: ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' off air 'indefintely' over Charlie Kirk comments

Proof of how out of touch, miserable, and dishonest Jimmy was, not so long ago.

He can go F himself with a rusty blunt instrument.

Encapsulates the Left perfectly.

You are really going to post a Rolling Stone link? They have proven over and over again that they will do anything for clicks.

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In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed.

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Two sources familiar is not anyone at ABC on record and may not even be anyone affiliated with ABC.

Multiple execs just means more than 1 and could mean 2 of any number of executives.

This in no way, shape, or form means the following:

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ABC has now been on record of saying they didn't think his comments were a fireable offense however the added pressure by the FCC forced them to. Now we have the president trying to get NBC to fire their own hosts.

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Yes, regarding you saying "Everyone has a side", not

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You must have missed the first post when he or she said people that pick a side are simpletons, like picking who to cheer on a pro wrestling match - good or bad guys.

Again, if you vote, you pick a side.

First point, do those who are upset about the firing not realize that Kimmel; being fired for the Karl Malone impression would actually be "cancel culture," while this is about something different. It's obvious.

Second point, I find it ridiculous that people take the words that Kimmel said verbatim without realizing what he really said. As usual, the Left is using the twisting of words to project certain cultural ideas they wanted implanted in people. It's why he talked about the Shooter and MAGA the way he did, he tacitly implied the shooter was a MAGA guy - which plays into this ridiculous false narrative that "We don't know the motive." We do, it's quite clear. Occam's Razor and all.

On that point, thirdly, the Leftist media are garbage, can't everyone admit that, and even this framing:

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In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed.

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Points to possible ulterior motives. If they vaguely create an image of Trump as part of this, and fire Kimmel while releasing a phrase like that, all of the Progressive goobers will take this hook, line and sinker and start talking about freedom of speech, and dictator Trump and we are back to square one with Left vs. Right.

Notice it's "threat of," not "threat from," which are two vastly different ideas.


The media is the enemy of the people.

And Kimmel should still be fired for being part of it. But he shouldn't be fired for Karl Malone, THAT would be cancel culture.

But yeah, I see the Progressives are back to claiming the Right are anti-free speech again. Well done, ABC, well done.

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You must have missed the first post when he or she said people that pick a side are simpletons, like picking who to cheer on a pro wrestling match - good or bad guys.

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No, I didn't miss this, but I understand that he isn't saying if you pick a side you are simple in and of itself. He's using the pro-wrestling comparison to describe how there is nuance in real life events as opposed to wrestling when there is an obvious good guy, an obvious bad guy, and that's as deep as it goes.

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If you dont understand the difference between free speech and consequences from your employer then I dont know what to tell you.

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I respect that you think what you said is tantamount to what Kimmel said. I disagree.

One is expressing an opinion by means of a “joke” about the president, which is literally part of your everyday job as the host of that show, and the other is telling your employer to frick off, which Kimmel did not do.

I simply don’t see those as equivalent.

I also don’t see it as equivalent when the president has been suing multiple news outlets for defamation, causing them to clam up. And perhaps rightly so. If they defamed him, that’s against the law. But the legal burden is very, very high for that and purposefully so.

And the Vice President has tried to motivate others to go to the employers of people speaking to try to get them fired. That is at least bordering on the government chilling speech, which is against the First Amendment.

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we need civility and who is going to bring it, and encourage it?

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Trump has tried on a few occasions but his base gets mad when he does.

This belongs in the Poli Board but You do know that there was a murdered state congresswoman and her husband in Minnesota about a month ago, right?