Kimmel Pulled Off Air Indefinitely

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YouBet said:

Sapper Redux said:

YouBet said:

Sapper Redux said:

Zombie Jon Snow said:

TCTTS said:

So government censorship of speech is allowed as long as they don't censor all speech. Got it.


Government censorship of speech ON GOVERNMENT LICENSED NETWORKS HAS ALWAYS EXISTED.

HTH.


I can't wait for the next string of complaints about cancel culture and government abuse of power when Democrats are in office again.


So, you mean a return to what your side invented and normalized? Why is it ok for you to do it but not the right?


Why is it okay for anyone to do it?


Were you on here complaining about it when it was initiated and became SOP for the Democrats? Will you be on here complaining when you return to it? Or are you the typical leftist who only calls out the other side?

You can find me bagging on Trump and Republicans quite a bit on other forums. I'll never find you bagging on Democrats anywhere like most of your ilk.

Some of us don't live our lives discussing politics online. Thought if you browse anything I or lots of others have posted in this forum I think you'd find a fair amount of criticism of both sides (even in this thread).
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aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Oh the irony in that image. It's correct. But around 180 degrees in the wrong direction from your claim.

Here, you can read the Justice Department report. But if you're going to claim bias or errors, you're going to have put up evidence.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism
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God bless consistency.
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aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?

Not to the degree as conservatives. Not even close. ADL lies be damned.


Lol. So you're dismissing the evidence we do have because it doesn't support your claim and offering zero evidence in return. What a perfect encapsulation of your posting style.

The ADL didn't even count the Covenant School shooting as "political" or an "extremist related incident". Yet they count skinheads killing their wives in domestic disputes or killing another prisoner in prison. Hell, they didn't even count 2020 riots. Their data is cherry picked to support their leftist agenda. It's a complete joke.


Are you conflating protests and riots? Because that's a logical fallacy on your part. And yes, killings of spouses and prisoners can absolutely be linked to extremist ideology. The Convenant School shooter was obsessed with mass murder and wanted to be famous. She also hated the school. But I'm sure you can shoehorn that into political extremism.
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schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence

Quote:

The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder and Trump ally, was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September.

The vanished study opened with: "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."




I guess the ministry of truth got to it.

That study was bogus for the same reason as the ADLs. Broad definition of "right" narrow definition of "left", etc.
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Sapper Redux said:

YouBet said:

Sapper Redux said:

YouBet said:

Sapper Redux said:

Zombie Jon Snow said:

TCTTS said:

So government censorship of speech is allowed as long as they don't censor all speech. Got it.


Government censorship of speech ON GOVERNMENT LICENSED NETWORKS HAS ALWAYS EXISTED.

HTH.


I can't wait for the next string of complaints about cancel culture and government abuse of power when Democrats are in office again.


So, you mean a return to what your side invented and normalized? Why is it ok for you to do it but not the right?


Why is it okay for anyone to do it?


Were you on here complaining about it when it was initiated and became SOP for the Democrats? Will you be on here complaining when you return to it? Or are you the typical leftist who only calls out the other side?

You can find me bagging on Trump and Republicans quite a bit on other forums. I'll never find you bagging on Democrats anywhere like most of your ilk.


When was the last time I posted on F16?


No idea and proving my point as you are almost always posting left wing political statements on the Entertainment forum.

I post on this board quite a bit and do my best to stay away from politics when I'm on here outside of overtly political threads like this one.

"When in Rome", if you will.
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Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Oh the irony in that image. It's correct. But around 180 degrees in the wrong direction from your claim.

Here, you can read the Justice Department report. But if you're going to claim bias or errors, you're going to have put up evidence.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism

Oh the study by the Biden administration that has been taken down? That one was equally bogus as the ADL one.
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aTmAg said:

schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence

Quote:

The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder and Trump ally, was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September.

The vanished study opened with: "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."




I guess the ministry of truth got to it.

That study was bogus for the same reason as the ADLs. Broad definition of "right" narrow definition of "left", etc.


You're a clown
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Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?

Not to the degree as conservatives. Not even close. ADL lies be damned.


Lol. So you're dismissing the evidence we do have because it doesn't support your claim and offering zero evidence in return. What a perfect encapsulation of your posting style.

The ADL didn't even count the Covenant School shooting as "political" or an "extremist related incident". Yet they count skinheads killing their wives in domestic disputes or killing another prisoner in prison. Hell, they didn't even count 2020 riots. Their data is cherry picked to support their leftist agenda. It's a complete joke.


Are you conflating protests and riots? Because that's a logical fallacy on your part. And yes, killings of spouses and prisoners can absolutely be linked to extremist ideology. The Convenant School shooter was obsessed with mass murder and wanted to be famous. She also hated the school. But I'm sure you can shoehorn that into political extremism.

Thanks for helping me make my point. You have the same bias as the ridiculous studies.

There is a reason the Biden FBI withheld her manifesto. It made the left look bad. If it was really as impartial as you claim, they would have never done so.

And yes, when you burn down cities and beat and kill people because of racial anger stoked by the democrats, it absolutely should count.


And I'm not even counting, the cases where leftist judges let out thugs because of "racial justice equity", and then those guys go on to kill people. If we counted that, the numbers would even WORSE against the left.
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schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence

Quote:

The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder and Trump ally, was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September.

The vanished study opened with: "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."




I guess the ministry of truth got to it.

That study was bogus for the same reason as the ADLs. Broad definition of "right" narrow definition of "left", etc.


You're a clown

I'm not the guy saying clownish things. You people are.
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aTmAg said:

schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence

Quote:

The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder and Trump ally, was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September.

The vanished study opened with: "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."




I guess the ministry of truth got to it.

That study was bogus for the same reason as the ADLs. Broad definition of "right" narrow definition of "left", etc.


You're a clown

I'm not the guy saying clownish things. You people are.


I will give you one thing. You never tire of being shown to be wrong over and over again.
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aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?

Not to the degree as conservatives. Not even close. ADL lies be damned.


Lol. So you're dismissing the evidence we do have because it doesn't support your claim and offering zero evidence in return. What a perfect encapsulation of your posting style.

The ADL didn't even count the Covenant School shooting as "political" or an "extremist related incident". Yet they count skinheads killing their wives in domestic disputes or killing another prisoner in prison. Hell, they didn't even count 2020 riots. Their data is cherry picked to support their leftist agenda. It's a complete joke.


Are you conflating protests and riots? Because that's a logical fallacy on your part. And yes, killings of spouses and prisoners can absolutely be linked to extremist ideology. The Convenant School shooter was obsessed with mass murder and wanted to be famous. She also hated the school. But I'm sure you can shoehorn that into political extremism.

Thanks for helping me make my point. You have the same bias as the ridiculous studies.

There is a reason the Biden FBI withheld her manifesto. It made the left look bad. If it was really as impartial as you claim, they would have never done so.

And yes, when you burn down cities and beat and kill people because of racial anger stoked by the democrats, it absolutely should count.


And I'm not even counting, the cases where leftist judges let out thugs because of "racial justice equity", and then those guys go on to kill people. If we counted that, the numbers would even WORSE against the left.


Okay. So you don't have evidence. You have grievance and innuendo.
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I think you ate paint chips as a kid
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schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

schmendeler said:

aTmAg said:

TCTTS said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?


You're trying to talk sense to complete and utter delusion. To them...

- the conservatives who attempted to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer (for which they are now in jail)...

- the conservative who attempted to kill Nancy Pelosi's husband (for which he is now in jail)...

- the conversation who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband (for which he is now in jail)...

... etc, etc, etc don't exist (all of which were verified as politically motivated, btw). Because their existence would ruin not just these people's ridiculously hypocritical and reductive takes, but often their entire identities (Libs evil! Conservatives good!).





It's not even comparable. The left is FAR more violent than the right.


Lol

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence

Quote:

The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story. Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder and Trump ally, was gunned down while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September.

The vanished study opened with: "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives."




I guess the ministry of truth got to it.

That study was bogus for the same reason as the ADLs. Broad definition of "right" narrow definition of "left", etc.


You're a clown

I'm not the guy saying clownish things. You people are.


I will give you one thing. You never tire of being shown to be wrong over and over again.

As evident by you resorting to "retorts" like "You're a clown", it's clear who was actually proven wrong.
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These posts show some of the left's hypocrisy, clearly explains the FCC position, and then lays out the actual law. The networks were well within their rights and even obligation to cancel Kimmel. He thought he was bulletproof and found out otherwise.
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suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




what happened to Melissa Hortman?
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ABC was going to cancel his show anyway, this is just a way to do it and make it look like it was "out of their hands"… same as when anyone gets fired for seemingly small offenses.

Also, I'm curious what CBS/ABC will run in their late night time slots now. ABC may have made this move to compete now that the big 3 aren't all running talk show hosts against each other.
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Ag87H2O said:

These posts show some of the left's hypocrisy, clearly explains the FCC position, and then lays out the actual law. The networks were well within their rights and even obligation to cancel Kimmel. He thought he was bulletproof and found out otherwise.

In case you haven't noticed, leftists don't actually believe in enforcing laws. And that's not just their politicians talking - go look at reddit or any other left leaning forum and you'll see them encourage lawlessness and ignoring all sorts of laws. Except the ones THEY want to add like making guns illegal.
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Look at the bright side y'all.

Now that Jimmy has some time on his hands he could use this opportunity to get back to his roots in comedy. Maybe some network will let him headline a variety show that focuses on the sexual objectification of women and mocking fat people, midgets, and immigrants. Throw in a little blackface now and then.

You know, get back to what put him on the map in the first place.

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No one seems to want to address something I've mentioned a couple times…did Kimmel truly "lie"?

I don't particularly like the guy and didnt watch his show, but I really don't think he did anything more than say something that some people inferred one meaning into when he (I think) intended something else

It seems more likely the cancellation was due to political pressure/gaining favor than an actual threat of losing their license.
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SgtBarbarossa said:

ABC was going to cancel his show anyway, this is just a way to do it and make it look like it was "out of their hands"… same as when anyone gets fired for seemingly small offenses.

Also, I'm curious what CBS/ABC will run in their late night time slots now. ABC may have made this move to compete now that the big 3 aren't all running talk show hosts against each other.


Does it honestly matter? I'm not sure there are enough eyeballs and advertising to fill the slot with anything meaningful.

The landscape is just so different now.
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I just realized yall made me agree with Sapper. Who said Hollywood doesnt bring people together?
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Is this F16 or the entertainment board? Here for discussion about Kimmel, not right vs left diatribe
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TCTTS said:

Literally no one here is upset that Kimmel got fired.

For like the 800th time, we're expressing concern that our GOVERNMENT blatantly threatened Kimmel's EMPLOYER to do something about him.

Dig up old posts all you want, this isn't the same situation. Biden's FCC chair didn't publicly declare that there would be consequences if Disney didn't do something about Gina Carano.

At this point in the thread you have to be willfully ignorant to not understand the issue/difference.

I was merely pointing out the selective hypocricy of the self-appointed overlords of f13 and a couple of far-left sycophants here who repeatedly lie down thread and elsewhere. And Biden certainly went after Section 230 (hush Rush, anyone?) and has been demonstrated to have coluded with social media platforms to stifle speech.

To whit - I don't believe that the FCC should have gotten involved at all. It's unfortunate that "the public good" is so vague. It's interesting that I am firmly against the government policing speech, but they do just that when they issue a license, and I doubt many of us would argue that banning certain words or even porn on OTA bradcasts is a 1st Ammendment issue, but it comes with the frequency monopoly that TV and Radio issued by the federal government.
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fig96 said:

No one seems to want to address something I've mentioned a couple times…did Kimmel truly "lie"?

I don't particularly like the guy and didnt watch his show, but I really don't think he did anything more than say something that some people inferred one meaning into when he (I think) intended something else

It seems more likely the cancellation was due to political pressure/gaining favor than an actual threat of losing their license.


I'll go back to what I said earlier. I bet we find out his show was losing money and in a completely fractured entertainment market where he was catering to only half the country that wasn't going to get them out of that hole, ever. Thus, he gave his masters some cover to pre-empt his likely eventual retirement ahead of his contract ending.

So, whether or not he lied will ultimately be irrelevant.
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I agree with the liberals on this thread. Kimmel had every right to continue to lose his parent company 10s of millions of dollars per year on an entertainment format that is going extinct. This is clearly government fascism.
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fig96 said:

God bless consistency.


Bit of an irony coming from a leader that many were afraid to make fun of because the jokes hit a little too close home. You'd have thought Trump was still President during Biden's entire term with the material the late night comedy shows chose to run with despite leaving a lot of jokes on the table about Biden. There was nothing consistent about it. But, those shows and networks made their choices. I just find it amusing that now with those networks making their own choices about show cancellations, some want to complain about censorship.
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lol far left

Y'all need to get out more.
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Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

aTmAg said:

Sapper Redux said:

suburban cowboy said:

Madmarttigan said:

I don't give a rats ass about Jimmy Kimmel.

That being said a bunch of snowflakes in here celebrating **** the liberals used to do.

This was such a nothing burger bit said by him.

I'm tired of snowflakes on both sides.




One side is killing their opposition. One isn't.




You know Democratic politicians and their families have been attacked in recent months, right?

Not to the degree as conservatives. Not even close. ADL lies be damned.


Lol. So you're dismissing the evidence we do have because it doesn't support your claim and offering zero evidence in return. What a perfect encapsulation of your posting style.

The ADL didn't even count the Covenant School shooting as "political" or an "extremist related incident". Yet they count skinheads killing their wives in domestic disputes or killing another prisoner in prison. Hell, they didn't even count 2020 riots. Their data is cherry picked to support their leftist agenda. It's a complete joke.


Are you conflating protests and riots? Because that's a logical fallacy on your part. And yes, killings of spouses and prisoners can absolutely be linked to extremist ideology. The Convenant School shooter was obsessed with mass murder and wanted to be famous. She also hated the school. But I'm sure you can shoehorn that into political extremism.

Thanks for helping me make my point. You have the same bias as the ridiculous studies.

There is a reason the Biden FBI withheld her manifesto. It made the left look bad. If it was really as impartial as you claim, they would have never done so.

And yes, when you burn down cities and beat and kill people because of racial anger stoked by the democrats, it absolutely should count.


And I'm not even counting, the cases where leftist judges let out thugs because of "racial justice equity", and then those guys go on to kill people. If we counted that, the numbers would even WORSE against the left.


Okay. So you don't have evidence. You have grievance and innuendo.

I have already provided evidence. You just don't like it.

The notion riots like Ferguson and Floyd weren't pollical is ridiculous. If conservatives were rioting after Charlie Kirk's assassination, you and other F13 morons would be all over the place claiming that the right was violent. As it turns out, not only were we not violent, cities weren't even CONCERNED that we would be. Nobody boarded up their businesses or anything in preparation for it. That's the difference between the left and the right.

And the notion that a manifesto that talked about "white privilege" and "trans right" wasn't political or leftist is also hilarious.

You are no more truthful than Jimmy Kimmel.
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you mean the guy who said he heard Tim Walz order him to kill her? That guy? The one who was clearly off his rocker and was not clearly aligned with any party? He worked in the dem machine in minn and also had ties with other parties.

Are you going to reach about Pelosi next? the homeless drug addict that attacked him? It is clear who has been inciting violence
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YouBet said:

fig96 said:

No one seems to want to address something I've mentioned a couple times…did Kimmel truly "lie"?

I don't particularly like the guy and didnt watch his show, but I really don't think he did anything more than say something that some people inferred one meaning into when he (I think) intended something else

It seems more likely the cancellation was due to political pressure/gaining favor than an actual threat of losing their license.


I'll go back to what I said earlier. I bet we find out his show was losing money and in a completely fractured entertainment market where he was catering to only half the country that wasn't going to get them out of that hole, ever. Thus, he gave his masters some cover to pre-empt his likely eventual retirement ahead of his contract ending.

So, whether or not he lied will ultimately be irrelevant.
"Ultimately being irrelevant" is, in this context, irrelevant.

There was an FCC threat that appears flimsy at best, and that's setting a dangerous precedent.
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fig96 said:

lol far left

Y'all need to get out more.

Pot meet kettle
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javajaws said:

fig96 said:

lol far left

Y'all need to get out more.

Pot meet kettle

I've got my share of church friends and family who are insanely conservative so I'm quite familiar with that side of the discussion, thanks.

Thinking the views that I or most others espouse here are "far left" is laughable.
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fig96 said:

lol far left

Y'all need to get out more.

I'm working on it. Recently back from Kenya and Tanzania.

Thanks for the advice.

You need to read more.

Perhaps try this:







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fig96 said:

No one seems to want to address something I've mentioned a couple times…did Kimmel truly "lie"?

I don't particularly like the guy and didnt watch his show, but I really don't think he did anything more than say something that some people inferred one meaning into when he (I think) intended something else

It seems more likely the cancellation was due to political pressure/gaining favor than an actual threat of losing their license.

I don't think it mattered. What he did say offended enough people that they complained and Sinclair was dropping him and that forced the network to cancel the show. Kimmel getting fired was the market responding to what he said. He earned the cancellation all by himself.

Having said that, based on the FCC rules in laid out in my post, they had every right to get involved. It just so happened, the market took care of Kimmel on its own at the same time.
 
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