Social Jimmy Kimmel gets Canceled

[Only Here for Attachments]

I don’t care one bit about Jimmy Kimmel, but I do care about government overreach and authoritarian censorship.

Do we want only state-approved news and media?

 

[Rational Poster]

I don’t see how anything Kimmel said was that bad. He didn’t denigrate Kirk with his comments, he commented on the shooter (possibly erroneously, I haven’t been following the details of the shooter since his arrest) and then made fun of Trump for acting like typical Trump when asked in that clip how he’s coping with Kirk’s death.

Neither comments are particularly offensive. I rather would have seen Kimmel canceled on the merits for not being funny.

He didn't lie about the motives of the shooter. He was critiquing MAGA for instantly finger pointing rather than mourning and reflecting on the tragedy.

The MAGA people are just lying and spreading the lie.

 

[shockaholic12]

While the general “we are huge pussies” calls for canceling and safe spaces republicans have been screeching about since the Dixie chicks is at play here, I think this is also a timely excuse for the network to cut ties with Kimmel who was one of the highest paid talents on their payroll and also part of a dying late night genre.

 

[Prutfis]

You sound like someone who would have a very unbiased view on this topic....

Spoiler

Yeah that doesnt mean a lot coming from someone who worships a con man who lies to his face on the regular.

Its actually a lot of fun watching the US fall apart

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

He didn't lie about the motives of the shooter. He was critiquing MAGA for instantly finger pointing rather than mourning and reflecting on the tragedy.

The MAGA people are just lying and spreading the lie.

Do you gain anything personally from continuing to gaslight? I mean we know Kimmel had $$millions of reasons to gaslight his NPC audience, but you...what's in it for you?

 

[Seano]

Yeah that doesnt mean a lot coming from someone who worships a con man who lies to his face on the regular.

*yawn*

You're having a cryfest over a douche like Kimmel so spare me the pomposity.

 

[markg171]

Lotta people in this thread care more about Kimmel's free speech rights than Charlie Kirk's.

 

[Substance Abuse]

 

[Rational Poster]

Do you gain anything personally from continuing to gaslight? I mean we know Kimmel had $$millions of reasons to gaslight his NPC audience, but you...what's in it for you?

I just don't like liars.

 

[markg171]

They actively worked to cancel right wing people now they expect the group they have attacked and silenced to defend them?

Charlie Kirk is gone. We are what remains.

 

[Prutfis]

*yawn*

You're having a cryfest over a douche like Kimmel so spare me the pomposity.

Still trying to make it about Kimmel and not the real issue.

 

[lsa]

Do we have any evidence that the FCC leaned on ABC? Or is Disney following the marketing popularity trend just like it did when it was putting LGBT content in their kids shows?

If the former, that's very very bad and it's weird that they'd do it over this and not the past decade of "shit on Trump" being the main content of at least a dozen talking heads.

If it's the second? No different than what's been going on forever.

Google Kimmel and FCC..
Two sources

"Earlier Wednesday, Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened ABC, Disney and Jimmy Kimmel over a Kimmel monologue that included comments about Charlie Kirk, ominously saying, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way.""

FCC threatens Jimmy Kimmel. ABC shamefully caves. This is a disgrace | Opinion

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened Jimmy Kimmel and ABC over a monologue about Charlie Kirk. His threats are disturbing. ABC's reaction? Terrifying.

eu.usatoday.com

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Mr Carr, a Trump appointee, told the Benny Show, a conservative podcast.
"These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments

The late-night host criticised the Republican response to the killing and his suspension came after pressure from the regulator.

www.bbc.com

 

[markg171]

He's defending your constitutional rights in that comment. What other rights are you willing to give up?

They think the right to self defence is the right to assassinate someone holding a microphone.

 

[Kingz]

It’s ultimately not a free speech issue. It was a domino effect of non state actors doing what the left used to call “opening their umbrellas at the same time when it started raining”. Atleast back when right wingers, including the fucking President, were deplatformed in obviously coordinated fashion.

Also, Brendan Carr saber rattles all the fucking time and networks ignore him. So we have to consider that Nexstar and Sinclair..especially Sinclair..were legitimately disgusted by what Kimmel said.

But I said Nope as I feel he should’ve been given a chance to explain what he meant and put it in the past, which I read he was planning to do.

I understand the angry reaction. Right wingers have been mourning this assassination and seeing a bunch of shit heel leftists laugh about it. So any baseless suggestion that this was actually MAGA was going to start a shit storm. Especially as MSM continues to deflect.

But it’s not like he was doing anything ghoulish like a lot of what the left is doing and I thought Kimmel had been pretty classy about Charlie himself.

 

[Satanical Eve]

Do you gain anything personally from continuing to gaslight? I mean we know Kimmel had $$millions of reasons to gaslight his NPC audience, but you...what's in it for you?

He didn't disparage Kirk is what but I'm seeing tons of comments on social media stating otherwise when that's downright false and when people are called out on it they double down.

 

[clutchCAT420]

I woulda cancelled both him and Colbert for having two of the most punchable faces, and most punchable voices, i have ever seen. those kinda squawky, semi-camp, high-octave shrill noises they made, egh. But then late night TV does produce some very strange 'National Treasures', in the UK we had Graham Norton who's like the Irish, gayer version of the above, and viewed as nearly the next best thing to royalty by millions apparently.

Add trevor noah and Stewart along with oliver. Punch them and fire them all...

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

No one should face LEGAL punishment from protected speech, like this. But that doesn't exempt you from non legal repercussions of your words. Same as if some Fox News host started dropping n bombs and lost his job.

Freedom of speech not freedom from consequences of your speech.

 

[markg171]

That's one thing to defend the constitutional rights. But to say that comment that gun deaths are needed to hold up the second amendment is extreme imo.

But the second amendment is dated and should be revised I believe. But that's for another topic / thread.

The 2nd Amendment and the right to self defence will of course result in inevitable deaths... hopefully of the people attacking you.

There's no right to simply murder anybody you want, and Charlie was very obviously not saying being able to have a gun meant you can kill anybody you want. Tyler Robinson had a right to own the gun that he did to defend himself, not to assassinate Charlie who was 200 yards away holding a microphone and no threat to him.

If you can't understand that distinction, I don't know what to tell you.

 

[AmonTobin]

The same scum that cherish the protection of free speech to call people the N word or the F word are the first ones to say a comedian should be fired.

 

[Mock Artwork]

Jimmy did not try to claim that a right winger did it.

He was critiquing that MAGA was more concerned with proving he wasn't MAGA and blaming others.

He didn't say he was actually MAGA, he said they were desperate to prove he was anything but MAGA.

Yeah, take it from a vehement, frothing-at-the-mouth hater of Jimmy Kimmel. I seriously, absolutely cannot stand that fuck.

But, what you posted is true. It wasn't eloquent, but that's a pretty fucked up line to cancel someone over.

This is a kid. While I'm not going to forgive his cold-blooded murdering, the world often holds much more nuance.

I am at a cross-roads, to be honest. I am pretty pro-gun, but am starting to wonder about the culture around it. I used to be one of those 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people'. Starting to wonder if humans don't hold the mental fortitude that I had expected, especially with their impressionable children.