Jimmy Kimmel show suspended after Charlie Kirk comments

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[nobody's_hero]

It's not because he told a joke. It's not even because he's an Establishment mouthpiece. It's because the Establishment itself is scared. That is what is celebratory in Kimmel's firing.

And yes, his objectively false screed about the Charlie Kirk murder was not only unfunny, it was downright disgusting. Employment is an at-will relationship, so his employer had every right to separate him not only for failing to do his job but for being morally repulsive. The 1A protects citizens from government censorship (direct or indirect), it does not compel private media companies to keep employing someone spewing verbal vomit all over the TV screen...

I agree almost completely except for the part about ABC being private.

If you believe that, I've got ocean-front property in Arizona I'll sell you for some USAID money.

 

[ClaytonB]

I agree almost completely except for the part about ABC being private.
If you believe that, I've got ocean-front property in Arizona I'll sell you for some USAID money.

It's not about whether they're truly private or not -- of course they are a controlled-mouthpiece but we're all told that they are a private company --- you don't get to treat this as a 1A violation just because the CIA actually runs the MSM! That's the point.

 

[ClaytonB]

The left is in a full hysterical meltdown about "freedom of speech" tonight.

Well, it's not like somebody assassinated Jimmy Kimmel.

So, not sure what they're complaining about...

 

[CaptUSA]

Nice of him to give them an excuse to cancel his contract. Obviously they haven't found a substitute for the USAID money.

I'm still not convinced that this money isn't still flowing, just through other program headings.

 

[CaptUSA]

Yeah, the hypocrisy is one thing, but we justifiably went after the left pretty hard when the government did the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" routine during covid and the 2020 election about removing misinformation.

I understand it's using their weapons against them, but it still stinks to high heaven.

 

[CaptUSA]

Probably the worst thing about this is that it allows the left back into the free speech conversation. After 2020, they completely lost the issue. Now with Bondi's latest retarded statements and Carr's soft intimidation, the left actually has some good talking points to use.

 

[Matt4Liberty]

Kimmel was arguably the WORST regime mouthpiece over the last several years, truly.
He was a slimy little weasel who usually took the hardest political stances against all things non-left. Good riddance!

I have said it in a couple of places. Kimmel is the worst because you know both from him in an earlier life and from friends like Adam Corolla that he doesn't actually believe any of it. He basically sold his soul to the devil and became a globalist mouthpiece. A retarded devout commie like Col-berT at least believes in the diarrhea coming out of his mouth hole.

 

[nobody's_hero]

It's not about whether they're truly private or not -- of course they are a controlled-mouthpiece but we're all told that they are a private company --- you don't get to treat this as a 1A violation just because the CIA actually runs the MSM! That's the point.

Well, yeah. I meant though that if more people acknowledged that the government was filtering the script for these shows then they probably wouldn't be crying so hard over Colbert and Kimmel being cut. Sleep with dogs, get fleas.

The whole idea that any of it is 'free speech' is a facade. It's actually very expensive speech when you get paid to say it.

 

[Anti Globalist]

 

[acptulsa]

I'm still not convinced that this money isn't still flowing, just through other program headings.

I'm not either. But I don't think it was still flowing in Jimmy Kimmel's direction.

When they installed Trump they materially changed the flavor of the psyop. In fact, the flavor of the psyop changed more than the governance did. We're still importing at least as many H1B workers as Biden did, giving as much to Ukraine as Biden did, clamping down on free speech as much as Biden did, destroying the currency as fast as Biden did. Appearances have changed much more than policy.

Ending USAID and replacing it with other ops just facilitates that shift. Don't change all of USAID's objectives and confuse everyone. End USAID so all the stooges suckling at the teat understand. New teat, new hoops to jump through.

 

[vita3]

freedom is a good thing

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[jmdrake]

Right. PBS needs to be defunded because we can't have anyone telling the truth about U.S. researchers giving Guatemalan prisoners and later military syphilis.



We can't have PBS telling the truth about the Obama administration putting kids in cages.



We can't have PBS telling the truth about "liberal" California sterilizing female prisoners (most of them black) without their knowledge or consent.

Belly of the Beast | Films | PBS

In California’s women prisons, incarcerated people who were sterilized without their consent fight for justice.

www.pbs.org

We can't have PBS revealing that neocon John Bolton sabotaged a potential peace deal with Iran way back in 2003.

Analysis - The "grand Bargain" Fax - A Missed Opportunity? | Showdown With Iran | FRONTLINE | PBS

Nope. Consume Faux News and only Faux News along with Newsmax and ONN.

As for Jimmy Kimmel's joke, he's right. The right has gone out of its way to say the shooter is leftwing and the left has gone out of its way to say the shooter is rightwing. At first we were told the shooter was "trans." That turned out to be false. Now we know he had a trans roommate who actually turned him in. They may or may not have been in a relationship. There are a LOT of gay people on the right. The truth is we don't know.

Thankfully Bill Maher is immune from being cancelled at this point.



This is an abuse of power by the FCC and eventually it will bite conservatives in the arse.

 

[jmdrake]

The irony is that Tucker Carlson got fired for telling the TRUTH about the 2020 election which is there is no evidence it was stolen.



I still run into stupid leftists who try to argue the opposite.

 

[Anti Federalist]

This is an abuse of power by the FCC and eventually it will bite conservatives in the arse.

I'm counting on it.

It does the job of furthering the ideological divide, so that some day soon there can be a physical separation.

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[acptulsa]

I'm counting on it.

It does the job of furthering the ideological divide, so that some day soon there can be a physical separation.

Only thing is, Republicans do all the same things Democrats do, just at different times and for different reasons. Makes it hard to imagine how one of those societies will really turn out better than the other.

Call them RINOs if you want, but the fact is there are a great many rank and file Republicans who only call a foul when it's against the "other team".

 

[CaptUSA]

Ok, but the problem with that is that the right was winning the free speech battle. It was a HUGE benefit to them in the last election. Now???

 

[acptulsa]

Ok, but the problem with that is that the right was winning the free speech battle. It was a HUGE benefit to them in the last election. Now???

It's one heck of a psyop. They're giving us all a lot of rope to hang ourselves with, and there are a lot of unprincipled people using it.