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Look, let’s be clear about what happened: Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air because the Trump regime didn’t like what he had to say, and threatened his employer until they shut Kimmel up. It wasn't that Kimmel was fired because he "pissed off his bosses." It wasn't because he used any "magic words". It wasn't because he "celebrated" anyone's death. He merely offended the regime, the regime pressured the network with business penalities, the network complied. It was nothing short of an attack on a basically principle of democracy. It can't be any simpler or more complex than that.

You really are exhibiting some ugly troll behavior. If anyone is exhibiting hateful rhetoric - it’s you.

Hopefully the Resistance can hold out to then. I'm not really positive

Does that make Republicans children for every time they complained about something Obama or Biden did?

Where’s my six runs?

The FCC has the right to regulate the airways. But if it's chair uses his position to coerce ABC to fire a personality for speech it doesn't like, that's potentially a 1A case. At least per Ken White. Again, pretty straightforward.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-out-abc-charlie-kirk-comments-1235430078/ Earlier on Wednesday, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly called on licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel’s show. “I think that it’s really sort of past 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, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,’” Carr said Wednesday, speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr added. “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.” I'm sorry, but this is happening because he the state compelled this action. Pretty easy story to tell

Meanwhile, Brian “Kill ‘Em” Kilmeade remains gainfully employed.

The censorship will continue until the free speech improves.

So much for the "he pissed off the bosses" spin lol

Which means there's a 62% chance we get him out, based on these lifetime stats. Your mileage obviously varies, but I just don't think forcing a man into scoring position in a tie game really computes, 20-12 hindsight notwithstanding.

Isn’t the problem that Trump was electable after all?

It is clear what he did here. He didn't want to be the one to rule on this as it would look like government overreach. But it's crystal clear he's calling for anyone that needs a friendly relationship with the FCC, like maybe a couple of large companies that want to merge, to take action, which they have the right to do. It's a shakedown, nothing more, nothing less.

You asked, I told you. If you don't like it, FO.

So to recap: Charlie Kirk, media personality: political assassination, fly flags at half-mast. Melissa Hortman, Minnesota state legislator: not a political assassination, leave flags alone. Do we have that straight?

almost as if the people that pay them are in a file of some sort that could prove embarrassing.

That’s not far from what they said at Nuremberg. Adults are the ones to distinguish between right and wrong, not just fall back on “legal and illegal”.

Remember hashtag twitter files Funny

More concise from ChatGPT

Very courageous to stand behind the “well technically they probably can so I don’t see the issue here” argument isn’t it? I still haven’t learned what he said that was so problematic. Yes it does matter. Not some abstract bull**** that it’s just about making a boss happy.

Verlander threw 7 scoreless today. His era is down to 3.75. Would be nice to have him in Detroit right now.

Ain’t that the truth.

Just an observation, the ump was quite bad today. Missed a half dozen clear strikes for Det pitchers, and called some poor strikes for Det batters (on Torres when Meadows stole 2nd). Seemed to happen in key moments. Cleveland doesn't need any help right now

A 'meaningful' donation to TPUSA???? I guess I would continue to be suspended, because that organization is pretty much in direct opposition to what I believe.

We don't have to wait for her to come around. She showed in this very tweet she's on the regime's side concerning Jimmy Kimmel. She's just preemptively trying to protect herself and her own media empire here.

Johnny Kane interviews during a game arent just pointless, they're also meaningless and stupid.

You could’ve stopped at “bet”. 😉

Should be two men on and one out, instead we were a decent throw away form a strike ‘em out-throw ‘em out.

With respect to the bolded, the reporting from Status and others seem to indicate that his "bosses" at ABC are as confused as we are as to what he did that was actually wrong. He hasn't even been technically fired yet either. Not even defending their cowardice, but it lays bare that this action is 100% happening because the administration wants it to happen. As you say, no more simple or complex than that.

I'm almost at the point where I don't care anymore.

I promise that if in an alternate universe Fox News were was the liberal channel and Brian Kilmeade said anything on it the regime didn't like, that would definitely threaten the Fox broadcast network with license revocation unless they fired Meade, whether he said it on cable or not. And deny it if you like, but you know that's true.

the problem is that CEOs are spineless by design because they will *always* sublimate what they know they should do with the excuse that they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders not to. Don't bother looking to that quarter for anything but leaked stories of self-justifying angst.

The academic research is interesting, but it's really just the difference between a liberal democracy and illiberal/totalitarianism... In a liberal democracy, we have the rule of law. In totalitarianism, the laws are irrelevant, what the government says is the law is the law. We aren't to the latter yet... But there is no doubt in my mind that if this administration has its way, it's where they want us to end up.

For their sake hope the fcc doesnt see this

Absolutely.

Does Trump have the law behind him here? It's an open question. Either way, taken to its logical conclusion, merely disagreeing with any political action by any President makes one a child so long as it's technically legal. That's dumb and not how politics has ever worked.

Yeah, the discussion of whether Carr, obo Trump, technically has the right to do this kinda glides past the question of whether he should do it in the first place. Or what it says about this administration and how it feels about speech it doesn't like. Either way, one thing that distinguishes this action from Colbert is that that action was more subtle... and the talking point about his shows profitability muddied the waters enough to make it seem innocuous. The smoking gun (ie. Carr's appearance on Benny Johnson) makes it is pretty clear what happened here. People shouldn't be obliged to play dumb about any of it

So the government is going to censure the media? There's no way this isn't fascism, pure and simple. Suing newspapers and magazines that criticize the absolute corruption of the Trump administration? The media is their enemy.

I wasn't even paying attention to the Guardians-Royals series last week, thought the results were irrelevant.

Thats an interesting position for a Libertarian to take

If we weren't in an internet monopoly by the local cable service (Cox, soon to become Crapcast) I'd cancel their service and stick with YouTube TV. I am already boycotting Nextstar owned stations, as well as ABC and Paramount. We need a nationwide boycott

Haven't read his comments yet, but you can't piss your boss off. He did and now is paying the price for it.

Size doesn’t equal intelligence. I’m still not convinced or understand what about his comments were offensive enough to justify this. MAGA are nothing but intellectual snowflakes.

They are massive https://www.nexstar.tv/stations/

Can any of our resident maga sympathizers explain what was said that was a big deal. I know you are out there. I want to hear it.

Wow what he said was worse than the media sanitization, shocker

Be nice if both sides came together and agreed to elect presidents that aren't morons and who follow the law.