Social Jimmy Kimmel gets Canceled

[surgeyou1]

Evidence was out. He acted with malice and upstanding Americans and employers are done with vitriolic propaganda. Kimmel is a non-funny diarrhea show with terrible ratings. He is a hypocrite and two bit grifter that learned the hard way there are consequences for being a liar and a piece of shit.

Lmao. Vitriolic propaganda is what this whole administration was built on.

 

[Thrawn33]

Jimmy could've literally told the heads at the network and the Mouse to fornicate with the corpses of their grandfathers, but because the FCC couldn't resist running his mouth, it doesn't matter if Jimmy was fired for cause, losing money or being insubordinate, the perception of possible gov't influence in his leave of absence opened the door to litigation and all kinds of bad shit..

It was the correct call to bring him back. As much as I can't stand him.

Knowing he's a self absorbed clown who doesn't live in reality (and folks at the head of his network have egg on their faces and probably wont let that slide) he'll fuck up again, maybe not soon, but he'll say something, get busted, or sued for something inappropriate.

...or they'll just not renew his contract.

 

[Kassitus]

I don’t know if you’re paying any attention or not but the right has been behaving like that online for a long time now. So cut the shit being a good faith gentleman, that’s never been representative of the right.

What’s dangerous here and especially bad is we are taking about the government censoring a comedian that didn’t even say anything bad about the victim. He (correctly) pointed out that this administration was going to exploit his death to their own ends. Pretty hard to deny when they then went ahead and did that exactly to him.

There is no if ands or buts about this case. This is cut and dry the government stepping on the first amendment to tailor public discourse to what they want. This is straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Show me where thousands of conservatives celebrated the murder of someone because they were left wing. The closest you will find is like 12 guys on Stormfront or 30 guys on 4Chan. Playing the "both sides" card here is disingenuous at best.

The first amendment protects your right to say something, not your right to say whatever you want on TV and still keep your TV show.

 

[BIKES!]

Lmao. Vitriolic propaganda is what this whole administration was built on.

The sad part which the masses already know, is these feeble “whataboutism’s” by your demonic cult are rooted in the same type of propaganda Jimmy spewed saying the shooter was MAGA.

The fact your radical cult propagated an acronym like MAGA as some sort of bad word in itself shows the insanity and brainwash across the clapping seals

 

[BIKES!]

The sad part which the masses already know, is these feeble “whataboutism’s” by your demonic cult are rooted in the same type of propaganda Jimmy spewed saying the shooter was MAGA.

The fact your radical cult propagated an acronym like MAGA as some sort of bad word in itself shows the insanity and brainwash across the clapping seals

 

[AmonTobin]

Brace yourselves for a late night comedy thrashing. Lots of gold to mine from that RNC masquerading as a funeral. So many depraved grifters and cult leaders in one room. That dress code! The merch! That hypocrisy! Imagine the smell!

 

[Andy Capp]

He assumed and stated that the person that killed Charlie Kirk was MAGA. Or that’s what I’m reading online. This was obviously prior to the evidence coming out.

That is untrue. TBF, at least 2 mods and several other users here keep spreading that lie like they're being paid for it, though.

 

[HOLA]

hahah huge L for Trump and all his dishonest, degenerate cultists ITT.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Show me where thousands of conservatives celebrated the murder of someone because they were left wing. The closest you will find is like 12 guys on Stormfront or 30 guys on 4Chan. Playing the "both sides" card here is disingenuous at best.

The first amendment protects your right to say something, not your right to say whatever you want on TV and still keep your TV show.

WTF are you talking about? Have you listened to Kimmels speech? He didn’t celebrate Kirk’s death.

Btw, the first amendment absolutely does assert his right to celebrate it if he chose to. And it certainly does protect his employers from the government coercing them to have him removed for it. That is settle law, not an opinion.

 

[Kassitus]

WTF are you talking about? Have you listened to Kimmels speech? He didn’t celebrate Kirk’s death.

Btw, the first amendment absolutely does assert his right to celebrate it if he chose to. And it certainly does protect his employers from the government coercing them to have him removed for it. That is settle law, not an opinion.

I was addressing your other point, not claiming Kimmel celebrated.

FCC was sued for removing a George Carlin special and the Supreme Court ruled they had a right to do it. You don't get to spew filth on TV with no consequences.

 

[HenryFlower]

Show me where thousands of conservatives celebrated the murder of someone because they were left wing. The closest you will find is like 12 guys on Stormfront or 30 guys on 4Chan. Playing the "both sides" card here is disingenuous at best.

show me thousands of dems/libs/lefties who celebrated Kirk’s murder

 

[AmonTobin]

Show me where thousands of conservatives celebrated the murder of someone because they were left wing. The closest you will find is like 12 guys on Stormfront or 30 guys on 4Chan. Playing the "both sides" card here is disingenuous at best.

The first amendment protects your right to say something, not your right to say whatever you want on TV and still keep your TV show.

Thousands of conservatives celebrated (and continue to celebrate to this day) George Floyd’s murder as “a scum bag who overdosed on his fentanyl”. They condemned the BLM movement and the police brutality protests (all lives matter, blue lives matter, etc.). They called for the release and pardon of the “innocent” Derek Chauvin.

 

[Blayt7hh]

I was addressing your other point, not claiming Kimmel celebrated.

FCC was sued for removing a George Carlin special and the Supreme Court ruled they had a right to do it. You don't get to spew filth on TV with no consequences.

Have you bothered reading the Supreme Court decision? The FCC removed it for reasons that actually are under its regulatory power. Please don’t waste my time with examples you haven’t read or understand

 

[Roids]

He better not apologize and bend the knee. Not worth coming back if he does.

 

[Siver!]

The sad part which the masses already know, is these feeble “whataboutism’s” by your demonic cult are rooted in the same type of propaganda Jimmy spewed saying the shooter was MAGA.

The fact your radical cult propagated an acronym like MAGA as some sort of bad word in itself shows the insanity and brainwash across the clapping seals

Really?

You don't see the direct parallel between the pejoration of MAGA and the attack on an overtly positive term like "woke"?

Or you just aren't smart enough to recognize your own reflection?

 

[Confucamus]

I don't think anybody expects him to walk back his lie. Most people didn't care much that he got suspended other than to see karma come around for him. He might get a ratings bump for like a week, but they'll go back to being in the dumpster after that.

 

[WhiteMousse]

Sorry, but has any low rated show firing was ever explained as "they suck and don't bring views"? Even Joy Reid, that had an audience pretty much consisted as Fox News writers to gather material, didn't get this justification.

Thing is I can't find videos of Kimmel saying MAGA did it.

He DID say that MAGA is so desperate to find clues indicating that they DIDN'T do it. That's not the same thing. I understand it's somewhat adjacent but it seems like he's making fun more of their desperation to clear themselves and indict the other side, than he is accusing anyone of any particular crime.
And even if he was yeah, that would be dumb because the shooter was clearly a leftist, I still don't think he should get canned because of that. And even if he was outright lying, it's still the company's choice, shouldn't be the FCC.

Any time anything happens, like 95% of the people in this sub-forum do the same thing. They latch on to anything that will absolve whatever side they like and indict the one they don't. And the people who call that out--- I mean, that's pretty tame.

I'm trying to think of a right-wing equivalent. Imagine if someone got fired for saying that George Floyd wasn't murdered, that he just OD'd on Fentanyl. Imagine if the Biden admin said they were going to make sure that person was fired. If you think that Jimmy Kimmel deserves to get fired for this, then you'd have to agree that someone would absolutely deserve to get fired for saying that.

And all of this is besides the point because the biggest issue is that the government was glaring at ABC and Disney, and they folded. And who wouldn't? That's why the government should have no say. Free speech has to reign. Now if a company says "What so-and-so said doesn't align with our beliefs, blah blah blah," that's a different sin and one that should be discussed. But it is a DIFFERENT sin.

And as much as I detest people who do so, the people celebrating Kirk's death have a constitutional right to do so. They're shitty people, yeah. But the 1st Amendment must be protected because if they are denied their right to say awful things--- I could ostensibly be denied the right to say good or true things-- and that is the descent into hell. You have to examine any kind of restriction and ask yourself "what is the worst, most detrimental manner in which this could be used against ME?" We have to tread carefully. The pendulum swings back and forth. Those in power now will be at the mercy of those over whom they currently have power.

As an addendum, threats and direct encouragement of violence are exceptions to this. If someone says "Get this person next" or "I'll take one for the team and get Shapiro" in the wake of an assassination, that person should at the very least be spoken to by authorities.

 

[WhiteMousse]

It's so cute to see the Left complaining about 1st Amendment violations.

I mean, yeah it is. But their right to free speech should be preserved despite that irony-- unless people don't actually care about free speech, only about their team.

 

[PEB]

I guess losing over 4 billion in a weekend changes people's mind. Wait to here how Trump reacts before doing anything an Jimmy better not give in. Waiting a week.

 

[oldshadow]

I don't think anybody expects him to walk back his lie. Most people didn't care much that he got suspended other than to see karma come around for him. He might get a ratings bump for like a week, but they'll go back to being in the dumpster after that.

I hope he does run his mouth and piss people off. With all the choices out their it will be easy to boycott any station that plays his show.