This is why. pic.twitter.com/V4W19wZGfu

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025

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 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 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.

Cliff.Booth said:

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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

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That's a pretty good distinction that I'd agree with.

You can ***** and moan all you want about someone you hate doing something hateful.

But you cannot argue that our government should be able to effectively silence him via public threat, yet you conveniently keep side-stepping that central issue.

You're just mad that someone you don't like said something you don't like.

That's called being emotional.

It takes a different kind of maturity to be able to admit he should still be able to say what he said without fear of threat/reprisal from our government. Because what happens now that the precedent is set, but the tables are eventually turned, and the next Democrat-led/installed FCC chair goes after Greg Gutfeld or whoever in the same way?

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 and has to sell advertising in your time slot in the meantime, do something. You got that right

Mr President Elect said:

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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.

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"But when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that's not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions."

100% this.

The problem, though, as you alluded to, is WHO is doing the punishing. His employer? No issues there whatsoever. But the United States government threatening his employer? That's a beyond slippery slope that we're already sliding down.

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.”

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

— Paul W. Swaney III (@privateinequity) September 17, 2025

Cliff.Booth said:

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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.”

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

— Paul W. Swaney III (@privateinequity) September 17, 2025

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100%. And again, he knew what he was doing here. Gets his vacation and to play martyr to help launch next gig

DannyDuberstein said:

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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

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Once again, you're completely missing the point/nuance. For the cheap seats... if it was JUST his boss, no issue there whatsoever. But the United 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.

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

TCTTS said:

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DannyDuberstein said:

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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

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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.

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So many leaps required here. This decision was flat-out good business. Period.

This is a carbon copy of the conversation around Colberts cancellation. It's wild.

The United States government threatened Kimmel's employer to do something about speech they didn't like.

That is an indisputable fact.

Whether Kimmel's employer acted in response to that threat or independent of it is almost irrelevant.

Either way, you can't ignore the timing.

The timing of doing it right after he said the crazy **** ?

"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:

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This is why. pic.twitter.com/V4W19wZGfu

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025

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If the quoted tweet is true, then this seems plausible:

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:

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This is a carbon copy of the conversation around Colberts cancellation. It's wild.

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I would argue that only strengthens my point then too. The fact that this has now happened twice, both times only days after threats from our government (or at least very strong hints of a threat in the case of Colbert, but both times from Carr), almost assuredly isn't a coincidence.

Not sure if y'all are getting the message, but spewing crazy stuff about this is bad for business and companies all over America have been making this same decision with their employees by the thousands at this point. Without the FCC or big bad govt.

So Nexstar only did it at the threat of the FCC while the rest have done it for funsies, I guess. Or maybe, just maybe, they made the same exact accounting and reputational decision everyone else has

Just watched the clip and didn't see anything worth anyone getting fired. I also didn't see anything funny, and that is worth firing him over.

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.

Cliff.Booth said:

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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.

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Why would I complain on an ENTERTAINMENT message board about what social media companies were doing in regards to political matters? I'm commenting on this, now, because it's actually ENTERTAINMENT related. By your logic, because I haven't complained about any number of political topics here, I must be some kind of hypocrite in regards to all of those issues, simply because I didn't bring them up while discussing Star Wars or whatever.

Different situation. The US Government wasn't involved in private companies banning Trump.
IMO private companies can ban whoever they want, they own the servers.

TCTTS said:

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The United States government threatened Kimmel's employer to do something about speech they didn't like.

That is an indisputable fact.

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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

Cliff.Booth said:

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Did you complain about it on F16?

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I don't post on F16 period.

This is just more backwards logic on your part.

You're basically saying that I have to post about something on a message board in order to make it a valid complaint of mine in your eyes. When, in reality, you have no idea whether I complained about it or not real life (I did, for the record).

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:

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TCTTS said:

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The United States government threatened Kimmel's employer to do something about speech they didn't like.

That is an indisputable fact.

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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

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Yes.

It was a threat literally made on a public podcast that was then publicly reported by multiple outlets.

I already posted this link once in this thread, and it's been quoted in another post or two as well...

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-1236522406/

I'd love to see the license and verify this. If true, it completely justified FCC getting involved. If he also refused to apologize and correct it, that is the ultimate cover for the bosses to pull his show.

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