Social Jimmy Kimmel gets Canceled

[PeterGriffin]

Corrected for accuracy, but otherwise, this is right. Involving the FCC over this is deeply concerning.

The first truly fascist thing I've seen Trump do was usurp control of the Metropolitan Police Department. But this is pretty fascistic stuff, too. Liberals have been abusing that word for nearly a decade. Suddenly Trump wants to vindicate them?

I don't understand why anyone is supporting this.

I just don't understand how well-educated Americans can not find this extremely concerning. Is the First Amendment on vacation for the next three years?

Trump doesn't want to be president, he wants to be a king, and he's running the US like a kingdom.

 

[Rob Battisti]

You aren't being dishonest you are just wrong. It happens.

I said it walked the line of a first amendment violation. I could be convinced. It’s more in the gray area than a simple yes or no. I clearly said I didn’t support it.

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Sep 21, 2025

What was the official explicit threat on behalf of the administration? “Additional work ahead for the FCC”?

• “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
• “It’s long past the time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, ‘Listen, we are going to preempt. We are not going to run Kimmel anymore … because we, licensed broadcasters, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the...

• Roids

Thanks. Calling out specific broadcasters doesn’t necessarily change the fact that the nature of what Carr intended to do still isn’t vague. Something negative — absolutely.

Don’t know why I need to continue to repeat this — I think what Carr said was repugnant.

The 1969 case was way more cut and dry than this. If this rule was enforced to the letter of the law then neither administration would be allowed to put their people on the air because of the absolute bullshit lies they push to enhance their narratives.

100% agree. I never said this qualifies. I said it’s interesting because some people take Kimmel as a source of truth and that it’s interesting to know if people like him have a responsibility to not give false information during a time of contention in our country.

It was literally hours apart. They made the threat and within hours Kimmel had been fired. Why would they file official charges 2 hours after issuing a threat?

They wouldn’t. I never said otherwise. I’m literally not disagreeing that this was an awful thing.

@Rob Battisti
Did you get mixed up?

No.

Corrected for accuracy, but otherwise, this is right. Involving the FCC over this is deeply concerning.

The first truly fascist thing I've seen Trump do was usurp control of the Metropolitan Police Department. But this is pretty fascistic stuff, too. Liberals have been abusing that word for nearly a decade. Suddenly Trump wants to vindicate them?

I don't understand why anyone is supporting this.

100% agreed.

For some reason I got dragged into a back and forth for being against what Carr said but simply pointing out that doing so is an egregious use of a bully pulpit but technically not an official FCC action.

@Andy Capp crashed out by showing the official action as quote from a conservative non-profit for some reason.

 

[b34stmode]

I just don't understand how well-educated Americans can not find this extremely concerning. Is the First Amendment on vacation for the next three years?

Trump doesn't want to be president, he wants to be a king, and he's running the US like a kingdom.

And lets not forget. People have "joked" about Trump running for a 3rd term. He continues to run the Country this way, and it becomes a very real possibility he will try something of the sort with how he is acting.

And not only will he try it, but he has TONS of supporters who have already said they would be perfectly fine with it.

 

[PeterGriffin]

And lets not forget. People have "joked" about Trump running for a 3rd term. He continues to run the Country this way, and it becomes a very real possibility he will try something of the sort with how he is acting.

And not only will he try it, but he has TONS of supporters who have already said they would be perfectly fine with it.

I do not see Trump walking away if can near the end of this term. He's old as fuck, and batshit crazy. What does he have to lose trying at this point?

 

[kflo]

Where does someone's ability to speak on public airways come from?

By saying pwetty pwease to lord fcc and the pwesident?

Keep embarrassing yourself. It’s amazing how much some of you are now in love with the idea the you need to kiss the ring to get your rights from the federal government.

 

[Starman]

By saying pwetty pwease to lord fcc and the pwesident?

Keep embarrassing yourself. It’s amazing how much some of you are now in love with the idea the you need to kiss the ring to get your rights from the federal government.

Where does someone's ability to speak on public airways come from?

 

[Kassitus]

Ah yes, the left is evil and the right are saints.

Typical partisan nonsense.

No, we are not saints. But the right wingers of 10 years ago will start to look like saints when compared to how ugly things will become.

 

[b34stmode]

I do not see Trump walking away if can near the end of this term. He's old as fuck, and batshit crazy. What does he have to lose trying at this point?

Yeah. And sadly with things happening like Charlie Kirk, it gives Trump more "reasons" to try it in the first place, to muddy the waters per se. It is absolutely WILD and everyone knows its a possibility. Republicans just ignore the topic and hope it goes away. Or they will say you are suffering TDS for talking about it, and have nothing to add to the actual conversation.

 

[Kassitus]

This reads like a limp noodle attempt to explain why a right winger wouldn’t practice what they preach. Suddenly being fine with cancel culture because the left triggered you isn’t a good defense.

Is that how you explain all this away? The right is triggered? The right just watched their nice guy debate bro get his head blown off and then watched millions of leftists celebrate. The left has made it crystal clear they have dehumanized us to the point where being the good faith gentleman is simply off the table.

 

[Andy Capp]

I have seen people say shitty things in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting, but shit-canning a late-night comedian for telling the truth is weak and pathetic.

Corrected for accuracy, but otherwise, this is right. Involving the FCC over this is deeply concerning.

The first truly fascist thing I've seen Trump do was usurp control of the Metropolitan Police Department. But this is pretty fascistic stuff, too. Liberals have been abusing that word for nearly a decade. Suddenly Trump wants to vindicate them?

I don't understand why anyone is supporting this.

The rest of your post is fine and dandy but for the umpteenth time, exactly what did Kimmel say that is untrue? Over and over, people have claimed he lied about the ideological background of the shooter but Kimmel's remarks make no claim about that. He was talking about MAGA's immediate reaction to the news prior to there being anything known about the perp and there is plenty of evidence right here on Sherdog that what he said was entirely accurate.

It's fascinating to me how peoples' partisan biases cause them to put words in his mouth, claiming not only that he implied something--which he didn't, but that implying something is somehow the same as an overt lie.

 

[Madmick]

The rest of your post is fine and dandy but for the umpteenth time, exactly what did Kimmel say that is untrue? Over and over, people have claimed he lied about the ideological background of the shooter but Kimmel's remarks make no claim about that. He was talking about MAGA's immediate reaction to the news prior to there being anything known about the perp and there is plenty of evidence right here on Sherdog that what he said was entirely accurate.

It's fascinating to me how peoples' partisan biases cause them to put words in his mouth, claiming not only that he implied something--which he didn't, but that implying something is somehow the same as an overt lie.

"The Maga gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
- Jimmy Kimmel

Robinson wasn't "one of" the MAGA gang. He butted heads with his father who is a Trump supporter, reportedly, he despised Trump, and he killed Charlie Kirk due to his belief that Kirk spewed hatred which even after Kirk's assassination has prevailed widely as a left-wing sentiment.

Now, I'm familiar with you, Andy, and I'm sure you're going to say something mind-numbingly stupid that attempts to deny the obvious, here. You will somehow manage to be dumber than the people who are supporting the FCC going after Kimmel. Less dangerous, but dumber.

 

[Alpha_T83]

No, we are not saints. But the right wingers of 10 years ago will start to look like saints when compared to how ugly things will become.

You know some of us the left don't support the insane woke bullshit either. We can support socialized medicine while still believing a trans woman is still essentially a man.

So then we get to deal with fucking idiots like AOC on the left and pieces of garbage like Vance and Trump on the right.

 

[kflo]

Where does someone's ability to speak on public airways come from?

again, your bootlicking is embarrassing.

the public airways belong to the public. not the federal government. and they have zero right or ability to arbitrarily revoke a license because they didn't like a sentence a late night host said.

you clearly WANT them to have that right. you probably want trump to have the ability to take people mean to him off the air. but just be aware. it's embarrassing for you.

 

[Soggust]

"The Maga gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
- Jimmy Kimmel

I actually like your take overall and not to nitpick, but I do think your editor bracket is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the quote here by implying that Kimmel was suggesting currently, when he was clearly referring to the prior weekend.

His actual quote was: "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Now we can argue about when we "officially" knew he was left wing, but inserting [is] would prove he still thinks that and would also discredit the argument that "he was criticizing MAGA's response, not making a claim about the shooter", so I don't think it's a fair add.

Otherwise, I actually agree with you that irl the implication is there, but (and I don't think you're disagreeing here just stating my own take) when the FCC gets involved, I do think it should be about what he actually said, not what we think he meant.

 

[MrShady]

And the distributor network announced they were dropping Kimmel within the same hour, meaning they were already in the process of dropping him before the FCC made his comments of investigating Kimmel & Disney.

Your side is claiming it's all on Trump and the FCC, when in reality it was already in motion from the distributor network.

Your side, and it's propaganda, always goes with the 'We take the side that damages Trump's and that's why your side lacks credibility on anything related to Trump ... Even when you're right.

Oh no ... Trump accepted an plane from Katar? Is hiding the Epstein Files? Suddenly is in favor of Hate Speech against him?

Sometimes I wish your side had some crumb of credibility to criticize Trump when he should be criticized... too bad you ruined it many times over.

Go ahead, tell us all how we were wrong about Biden not being completely mentally healthy and how we're conspiracy theorists for saying he's stumbling and mumbling like an Alzheimer's Patient in a nursing home.

Go ahead, tell us all.

Is it possible theres people who criticized Biden and his administration and also criticizes Trump and his administration?

Is it possible to just call it like I see it?

This shit is just sad.
"Your side are the hypocrites." - says the side who are also being hypocrites.

 

[Cherry Brigand]

Is it possible theres people who criticized Biden and his administration and also criticizes Trump and his administration?

Is it possible to just call it like I see it?

This shit is just sad.
"Your side are the hypocrites." - says the side who are also being hypocrites.

great post. But the answer seems to be no. Everything is polarized now. Doesn't matter if we see 90% eye to eye. Don't agree with my 10%? You're the enemy.

 

[Loiosh]

Corrected for accuracy

No.

He didn't say the shooter was conservative, he said conservatives were desperately trying to prove he wasn't one of their own and finger pointing, which is exactly what happened and is still happening. I direct you to your own posts of fist-pump gifs when it came out there was trans involvement.

Liberals have taken the opposite position but mostly defensively, as conservatives always aggressively try and frame these narratives.

I've asked both you and Confucamus to state for the record which has been more lethal, violence from left or from the right. Neither of you have touched this question because the truth is easily verifiable.

I don't care if the violence is from the left or the right, I care about the violence and finding solutions. I've said many times I don't think this is a political problem, it's almost certainly an "angry young man on the internet" problem. I don't believe conservative or liberal parents or political parties teach or want their supporters or children to murder people.

 

[Stoic1]

And lets not forget. People have "joked" about Trump running for a 3rd term. He continues to run the Country this way, and it becomes a very real possibility he will try something of the sort with how he is acting.

And not only will he try it, but he has TONS of supporters who have already said they would be perfectly fine with it.

Really?

Tons of supporters?

Can you identify ONE here on Sherdog that wants a third term? There's probably 500 Trump supporters here. If you can identify ONE, I'd be surprised. You might be right and can find 1. But if only 1 in 500 supporters want it you would be mathematically challenged to see him win a 3rd term.

 

[Stoic1]

"The Maga gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
- Jimmy Kimmel

Robinson wasn't "one of" the MAGA gang. He butted heads with his father who is a Trump supporter, reportedly, he despised Trump, and he killed Charlie Kirk due to his belief that Kirk spewed hatred which even after Kirk's assassination has prevailed widely as a left-wing sentiment.

Now, I'm familiar with you, Andy, and I'm sure you're going to say something mind-numbingly stupid that attempts to deny the obvious, here. You will somehow manage to be dumber than the people who are supporting the FCC going after Kimmel. Less dangerous, but dumber.

 

[Madmick]

No.

Yes. This attempt to legalese Kimmel out of his obvious implication is pathetic and malicious.

Because if we're going to be this anal about language, Trump supporters weren't desperately seeking to characterize him as anything other than one of them. They weren't accusing him of being a #NeverTrumper anti-abortion activist. Why would they? Kirk was against abortion. They weren't accusing him of sympathy to the Zomi Revolutionary Army in India. Why would they? Nobody in the USA knows or cares who that group is. No, there was a general consensus, and it was rather specific. They were (and continue) to accuse him of killing Kirk because of his sympathies aligning with a left-wing disdain for Kirk's right-wing beliefs. When any political figure is assassinated in public, before we know anything else, this is always the most reasonable initial suspicion of motive. To assert this doesn't make the victimized group villainous.

To phrase it as Jimmy did, by accusing MAGA of casting these allegations blindly, which is inaccurate, clearly suggests they were scrambling "desperately" to deflect from the truth that he was one of them, but of course, that isn't the truth. It was never even a declared suspicion by authorities. Why would they need to "desperately" characterize him as "anything other" than something nobody associated with the investigation characterized him as being?

Because the only one who clearly implied this characterization was Kimmel himself. It's the only sensible interpretation of why he would phrase it the way he did.

He didn't say the shooter was conservative, he said conservatives were desperately trying to prove he wasn't one of their own and finger pointing, which is exactly what happened and is still happening. I direct you to your own posts of fist-pump gifs when it came out there was trans involvement.

Excuse me? The only "trans involvement" I mentioned in my posts was what the police officially shared with us, and the accuracy of this remains; that he was in a romantic relationship with a roommate who is transitioning to female. This is a reasonable foundation for motive as his homosexuality, particularly being with a trans partner, explains why he despised Kirk for Kirk's political arguments.