ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

  As far as I’ve been able to tell, that’s all Kimmel said.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And it’s 100% true

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And it’s not even “Charlie Kirk comments”, it’s “guy who shot Charlie Kirk comments”.

      He’s not taken off the air for “Charlie Kirk comments”, he’s taken off the air for not licking enough fascist ass. But of course the poor NYT reporter cannot write that, or they’d suffer the same fate.

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  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just read a Canadian CBC article that quoted this:

    "In between the finger-pointing, there was, uh, grieving," said Kimmel.

    "On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level you can see how hard the president is taking this," he said, before cutting to a clip where Trump responded to reporters asking about how he was doing by pointing to construction going on at the White House. "This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish."

    which is marginally worse, but again, marginally.

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• MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck if they think that’s bad, they should have seen The Man Show.

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  • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But that had girls jumping on trampolines.

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    • MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Juggies!

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They would have liked that.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They should read my comments.

    Single shot through the engine block!

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Makes me wonder when John Oliver and Jon Stewart will be pulled.

  Then all that’s left will be SouthPark and I don’t see that being renewed for next season either this way

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    South Park was renewed through 2030

    deadline.com/…/south-park-creaors-overall-deal-pa…

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Won’t matter if Trump or his FCC say it must go it will be pulled. Strange it hasn’t already.

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Title should call out “Disney-ABC”, not just ABC. It’s important to connect the dots how few outlets there are and how they are aligned. Christofacist will not be any stretch for Disney, and they have a king background in war propaganda films.

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• Wahots@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The abrupt decision by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, came hours after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, assailed Mr. Kimmel and suggested that his regulatory agency might take action against ABC because of remarks the host made on his Monday telecast.

  Taken from constitution.congress.gov/…/amendment-1/

  First Amendment

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  on one hand that's all he said. on the other hand kimmel's the host.

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