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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.

Well... US Initial Jobless Claims Drop by Most in Almost Four Years

Odd fact that’s rarely discussed, he grew up with former Lion QB Matthew Stafford. Not sure that many people knew that.

How about a donation in a flaming brown paper bag?

I miss the days when our biggest worry was whether the magic number included tiebreakers or was based on outright clinches only.

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

I'm sad that the company that puts out Andor is involved in this crap. Post by @sarahposner.bsky.social — Bluesky

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.

Was it legal to drive the train?

we have the tiebreaker over Houston..not Seattle. They are playing this weekend so that race will likely be decided.

This is what I got from ChatGPT

Remember that time Bert said where's my six runs and then the Tigers scored six runs? That was awesome.

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

I love the Kool Aid dude just licking up the fascism. Must taste so good.

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.

While they're at it, would also like to hear why it's a big deal when Brian Kilmeade, who advocating executing the mentally ill homeless, is still on the air and employed. I'm sure we'll be waiting a while for a response.

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

I agree. I had no problem with that trade. Alexander gave us some memories that we'll never forget. Smoltz would go on to have a great career, but I doubt he would have developed the same way with the Tigers as the Braves. He was a pitcher that required a lot of development and the Tigers were not good at that during that period while the Braves were the best.

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