This is why. pic.twitter.com/V4W19wZGfu
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025
This is why. pic.twitter.com/V4W19wZGfu
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025
With Kimmel getting canned I’m seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture. To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if…
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) September 18, 2025
Cliff.Booth said:With Kimmel getting canned I’m seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture. To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if…
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) September 18, 2025
Mr President Elect said:
Pretty much this.With Kimmel getting canned I’m seeing lots of people talking about the hypocrisy of cancel culture. To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if…
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) September 18, 2025
I think some of the people that got fired during 'cancel culture' deserved it. If they were openly racist af, I didn't bat an eye when they got fired. Cancel culture got coined when it started going over the top, trying to compare what is going on right now to the that is asinine. I don't agree with this if this was coming down from the FCC and hope we don't go down that road. However, I can see some arguments against a full media aparateus terming the other side as a the next Hitler as they pretty much have openly been doing, being a bit of a safety issue. I don't know the solution is, but it can't be the status quo.
Edit: I see the tweet got posted while I was typing this out, but will keep it up regardless.
Disney didn’t pull Kimmel because of “remarks.”
— Paul W. Swaney III (@privateinequity) September 17, 2025
They used it to clean up a mess
By comparison:
Colbert: 2.42M avg viewers - cooked
Kimmel: 1.77M avg viewers
This wasn’t moral outrage, it was accounting pic.twitter.com/Bk7IbGwdqK
Cliff.Booth said:
Seems like this is likely the case. It's like when the girlfriend you've already kinda realized is not wife material does something over the top crazy that you can feel good breaking up with her for. They got to seem decent and can a ****ty show in one fell swoop.Disney didn’t pull Kimmel because of “remarks.”
— Paul W. Swaney III (@privateinequity) September 17, 2025
They used it to clean up a mess
By comparison:
Colbert: 2.42M avg viewers - cooked
Kimmel: 1.77M avg viewers
This wasn’t moral outrage, it was accounting pic.twitter.com/Bk7IbGwdqK
DannyDuberstein said:
Yes, it does take a special kind of maturity to think someone should be able to spew crazy **** about a cold blooded murder and not have their boss, who already was planning not to renew him, do something. You got that right
FREE SPEECH? Im old enough to remember when President Trump was banned from every platform and Jimmy Kimmel laughed and celebrated
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) September 18, 2025
JDUB08AG said:
Was Kimmel also losing the network tens of millions of dollars each year too? Genuine question. I have no idea but I have to assume he isn't making them money. Is it possible they finally just found an excuse to pull the plug? Can you bring yourself to admit that just maybe that was a factor?
TCTTS said:DannyDuberstein said:
Yes, it does take a special kind of maturity to think someone should be able to spew crazy **** about a cold blooded murder and not have their boss, who already was planning not to renew him, do something. You got that right
Once again, you're completely missing the point/nuance. For the cheap seats... if it was JUST his boss, no issue there whatever. But the Unites States government threatening - and effectively forcing - his boss? You cannot tell me with a straight face that should be legal/allowed and still call yourself a patriot.
"Sinclair also calls upon Mr. Kimmel to issue a direct apology to the Kirk family. Furthermore, we ask Mr. Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA." https://t.co/fflOgk6uVk
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) September 18, 2025
Sea Speed said:This is why. pic.twitter.com/V4W19wZGfu
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025
Lol, they were going to let Kimmel go back on but he refused to apologize and they pulled the show. Amazing.
— Paul (@WomanDefiner) September 18, 2025
Sea Speed said:
This is a carbon copy of the conversation around Colberts cancellation. It's wild.
Cliff.Booth said:FREE SPEECH? Im old enough to remember when President Trump was banned from every platform and Jimmy Kimmel laughed and celebrated
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) September 18, 2025
Cliff.Booth said:
You weren't complaining then. This isn't escalation. It's a company cutting dead weight for doing something incredibly tone deaf as his last stupid act.
TCTTS said:
The United States government threatened Kimmel's employer to do something about speech they didn't like.
That is an indisputable fact.
I asked FCC chair @BrendanCarrFCC if he had any new comment now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he sent me this GIF pic.twitter.com/ljz60FzHN4
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 17, 2025
Cliff.Booth said:
Did you complain about it on F16?
Someone in showbiz told me it was a little scary what's happened to Kimmel and Colbert and I said actually it's heartening: It means Hollywood is back in the business of pleasing the audience and making money instead of this weird political virtue op they've been running.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) September 17, 2025
Mr President Elect said:TCTTS said:
The United States government threatened Kimmel's employer to do something about speech they didn't like.
That is an indisputable fact.
Is it? I have seen it reported, but do we know how those conversations actually went and how accurate the reporting on it is? Perhaps ABC leaned into some off-hand comment and is using it as cover. The "fact" (tweet) that they were going to let him back, makes it seem more on ABC than the FCC's pressure.
With that being said, I found this funny
I asked FCC chair @BrendanCarrFCC if he had any new comment now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he sent me this GIF pic.twitter.com/ljz60FzHN4
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 17, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel, might I suggest one of those lowly “podcasts.”
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 17, 2025
I look forward to your competition bereft of corporate daddies/overlords.
Kimmel explicitly lied. That’s it. He’s been making Trump jokes for years. What got him canned was lying about a crime. That’s a violation of the broadcast license the FCC issues. He could have said it on YouTube. You can’t say it on public airwaves.
— Gary (@plzbepatient) September 18, 2025