ABC is so afraid of Trump they caved in remarkably quickly. Kimmel's remarks were indeed inflammatory. But ABC's cowardly decision must be evaluated in the context of comments by Trump, Bondi and Vance about going after "hate speech" which even Kirk said was protected by the First Amendment.
This is not a good day for free speech. Remember when the ACLU supported the Nazi's right to march in Skokie? Those days seem to be gone.
I knew,this was going to happen. Silencing of he's critics...Networks, Journalist will be walking on eggshell to not offend the Der Führer..yeah I said it...
"Look, happy is calling us nazies"...wake up righties
You just can't let go of the nazi thing, can you?
His masked gestapo rounding up people sending them to concentration prisons or other countries,silencing critics,
He's one step away from the unthinkable, but if Ali Alexander had his way, 500k of his distractors would be sentence or exterminated. And his FBI enemies list...who does that??
So, C'mon man....prove me wrong (in memory of charlie)...tell me this isn't Nazi shit here?
The 1st Amendment is essentially done. We're literally turning into Russia and North Korea right before our eyes.
Were you concerned with 1A issues at any point over the last 6 years?
...was to offer his and his wife's condolences to Kirk's family.
On Monday the 15th Kimmel said:
"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points from it."
Kimmel was wrong but I don't think everything was known about the shooter as of the 15th. FCC chairman Brendan Carr (and Trump puppet) went on Benny Johnson's podcast and basically threatened to revoke ABC's broadcasting license.
Nexstar Media, which owns 23 ABC affiliates, pulled Kimmel's show from their ABC stations so in turn ABC "pre-empted indefinitely" Kimmel's show.
CNN's media reporter Brian Stelter asked Brendan Carr if he had any comment on ABC pulling Kimmel's show. Carr sent Stelter a GIF of two characters from The Office celebrating. IOW, the political prick was happy Kimmel's show got pulled.
but let’s take a look at what was public knowledge when Kimmel made his vile remarks about Trump supporters killing Charlie Kirk.
Megyn Kelly gives us a thorough breakdown of:
ANY EMPLOYER IN MEDIA WOULD SEE HOW DEPRAVED AND SICK THIS WAS. (In 2021 ABC fired Chris Harrison for saying maybe we should judge a Bachelorette contestant’s attendance (years earlier) at an antebellum party by what was considered offensive at the time. FIRED! His career never recovered!)
There’s more to her statement, but the TLDR version is that Kimmel is a piece of shit and ABC isn’t much better.
Liberals here and across the country have been whining and clutching their pearls about Trump and the FCC censoring Kimmel, but we already know that was a market driven decision by ABC and a conglomerate of local stations that carry ABC programming.
But there’s more, this whole kerfuffle was avoidable. All Kimmel had to do was apologize, but the belligerent asshole refused. He gave ABC no choice but to suspend him.
Oh the irony:
"Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free."
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Unfortunately, we've spiraled even deeper into authoritarianism.
Why ABC isn't suing on First Amendment grounds. Oh, forgot, they are a Trump loving company. What a bunch of spineless people.
...posted on X:
"They're doing their viewers a favor.
Jimmy is a sick freak!
What a fucking White House we have. Fucking no-class pieces of shit.
and go on a marathon Trump-bashing spree. Just to see what happens.
"That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!"
...he played a clip of Trump Friday on the White House lawn showing how hard Trump was grieving over Charlie Kirk's murder:
Reporter: "My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. May I ask sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?
Trump: "I think very good, and by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They've just started construction for the new ballroom of the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about a hundred and fifty years and it's gonna be a beauty."
Kimmel: "Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief - construction."
Kimmel was mocking Trump for his reaction to Kirk's death. Kimmel knows Trump is a sociopath - AND YOU KNOW IT TOO!!
America is sick of your sides shit!!
Boooooo fucking whooooooo Kimmel is gone! 🤣🤣🤣 Colbert will be right behind him as soon as possible and I will LAUGH!!!
Keep lamenting ickus and btw, your side? You’re the real hypocrites! And you know it!
...you're too stupid to know it:
Far from being "in the toilet" Kimmel's show last quarter ranked second in late night.
"Average Viewers:
In the second quarter of 2025, the show averaged 1.772 million viewers.
Ranking:
This placed Jimmy Kimmel Live! in second place for late-night shows during that period, per TV Insider.
Demo Advantage: Kimmel also held an advantage in the 18-49 demo, beating Colbert with 220,000 viewers, according to TV Insider."
Just another example of why no one here should believe certain posters.
The left lives by different rules…
Why was this ok?
So everyone wants to blame.... TRUMP and FCC.... WRONG.
1. It was the Companies own decision... Period.
2. Why didn't the left complain when Rosanne got fired for things she said? Seriously....same exact situation....SAME NETWORK.
Facts that can't be disputed.
1A rights dont save you from the employer firing you. Saves you from government arresting you.
Now the issue will be in Jimmy's contract if there is legal consequences that ABC could face. I highly doubt it since they didn't with Rosanne. BUT Jimmy technically isn't "fired" as of yet. Kimmel said things "On Air".....so was it "scripted", apart of the show, etc. Which could give him contractual obligations or legal room to sue ABC. This one could get interesting.
As nakedly partisan and an ignorer of facts.
Kimmel was suspended AFTER the Trump-appointed head of the FCC publicly threatened the management of his parent company. Mr. Carr said the F.C.C. was going to need to look into “remedies,’’ pointedly saying that the “licensed broadcasters” who carry ABC’s programming needed to push back against the parent network.
This was followed by announcements by a major station group with ABC affiliates, Nexstar, that it would independently pre-empt Mr. Kimmel’s show. As it happens, Nexstar is pursuing a station merger that will require F.C.C. approval.
And yet, to you none of this matters.
So now you are actually speculating what is happening?
You do know that would be HIGHLY illegal if the FCC didn't push through the sale/merger because of something like this or that was the basis for the reason. Which would lose in court battles.
Where was the outrage when Rosanne got fired? YES FIRED. Kimmel isn't fired.
From The NY Times:
"President Trump told reporters he believed the F.C.C. should revoke the broadcast licenses of networks who have late night show hosts who speak overly negatively about him.
“I have read someplace that the networks were 97% against me again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily,” Trump said abroad Air Force One. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr,” the chairman of the F.C.C., Trump added.
Trump added that he believed there needed to be a conservative late night TV show host, calling the networks “an arm of the Democrat party.”
“Look, that’s something that should be talked about for licensing, too,” he said. “When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump. That’s all they do. If you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative on in years.”
This is incredibly stupid because broadcast networks don't operate under licenses. Their broadcast affiliates, which are mostly privately owned, do.
Not to mention that, in what definition of our democracy should it be impermissible to criticize the President?
But he's not an authoritarian.
Are you righties fine with that? I bet you are.
Now this is bullshit. This is wrong.... dont agree with him about this at all.
Do I think that the late night shows all lean left. YEP. Do i think they should go back towards center.... YEP.
I remember when shows made fun of EVERYONE..... comedy was comedy. Doesn't matter political affiliation. If you fucked up they made fun of you. If your in the spot light.... they made fun of you. It was even across the board and nobody got butt hurt. Lets get back to that.
Hell Trump used to poke fun at himself and went along with it.
What will South Park do with this? It seems tailor made for them. They've been going after Trump big time. Now we'll see how big their balls are.
I just read they pulled a re-run of an earlier episode featuring a likeness of Kirk, so maybe their balls aren't that big. According to this article, Kirk's executive producer wants the episode to run.
I was thinking the same thing. They also didn't air the new episode that was supposed to be aired last night.
Now I am wondering if they "pulled" the episode out of respect right away thing. They have pulled episodes in the past. They have stopped showing certain episodes where they made fun of Issac Hayes character and Scientology. The one where he was "brainwashed". Hayes walked off set right before this episode I am thinking of and what not. Not sure if it was a legal issue.
Hopefully they will keep airing it. But I honestly think they did it out of respect right away. But we will see.
What will South Park do with this? It seems tailor made for them. They've been going after Trump big time. Now we'll see how big their balls are.
I just read they pulled a re-run of an earlier episode featuring a likeness of Kirk, so maybe their balls aren't that big. According to this article, Kirk's executive producer wants the episode to run.
Is Trump the President?
Am I a late-night host, now forbidden to criticize him?
If you answered "yes" to the first question and "no" to the second then STFU.
Always exposing the truth that I am in actuality… a little bitch. Like worse than the Snow Turd. Plus this Kimmel Thing has me super upset! Like I wanted to jump on blue sky and TikTok and make ding dong Charlie Kirk is dead videos but I’m scared people on this board would find out…T H E N Kimmel gets yanked? Jesus Christ how fucked up is the world?
And yes, Loser IS "a little bitch."
Rave on, Loser.
Oh, and eat THIS!
Dont know how accurate is this.....
But was Kimmel facing the same thing as Cobert??? Just curious. Was his ratings dropping as well? Then the CK thing was the final nail in the coffin or excuse they could use to "terminate" him.
So not just a twitter "meme" or picture.
So like I mentioned did ABC use the "comments" as an excuse to do this so to save face?
‘Dangerous as hell’: Cruz blasts FCC’s Jimmy Kimmel takedown
The Texas Republican called Brendan Carr’s actions “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’”
http://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/19/congress/cruz-calls-out-fcc-for-taking-down-jimmy-kimmel-00573159
According to The NY Times: "Tucker Carlson, the conservative writer and podcaster, told listeners this week that Mr. Kirk never would have wanted his death to be used as a pretext for a crackdown on speech.
“You hope that a year from now the turmoil we’re seeing in the aftermath of his murder won’t be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country,” said Mr. Carlson."
...that Cruz looked like a blobfish. Cruz didn't demand an apology or that Kimmel be removed from the air. Instead, Kimmel and Cruz played a one-on-one game of basketball to settle their differences. Cruz won 11-9.
http://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/16/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel-grueling-blobfish-basketball-classic/
That's a hilarious story. Favorite quote: “You’re a good sport,” Kimmel told Cruz in defeat. “I still think you’re a terrible senator.”