Jimmy Kimmel Cancelled over Charlie Kirk comments!

[Chrissy1979]

1 minute ago, gatomontes99 said:

No?

2 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

No?

 

 

 

Was the FCC involved? If so, I'm opposed to that too. 

See how easy it is to have principles that aren't just tossed as soon as your team finds them inconvenient?

Were you guys ever for free speech or did you just decide this week that you don't want it anymore? Pretty tacky to exploit the death of a free speech advocate to get rid of it, regardless.

[CdnFox]

4 minutes ago, Chrissy1979 said:

Was the FCC involved? If so, I'm opposed to that too. 

See how easy it is to have principles that aren't just tossed as soon as your team finds them inconvenient?

 

you invent and dispose of your principles at the drop of a hat whenever you find them inconvenient   You've always been anti free speech. And remember when you were so mad because you thought trump abused women and then couldn't stop supporting Bill who raped women and hillary who helped him cover it up?

Your 'ethics' last all of two seconds   

[robosmith]

@CdnFox Kimmel hasn't been canceled.

[Chrissy1979]

4 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

you invent and dispose of your principles at the drop of a hat whenever you find them inconvenient   You've always been anti free speech. And remember when you were so mad because you thought trump abused women and then couldn't stop supporting Bill who raped women and hillary who helped him cover it up?

Your 'ethics' last all of two seconds   

I've always been for free speech and I never supported Bill Clinton.

Whenever you realize you're being a hypocritical piece of shit, you have to lie about me to make yourself feel better. But we all know for sure you'll also call victims of paedophiles liars to defend your brethren.

[Legato]

1 hour ago, Chrissy1979 said:

Was the FCC involved? If so, I'm opposed to that too. 

See how easy it is to have principles that aren't just tossed as soon as your team finds them inconvenient?

Were you guys ever for free speech or did you just decide this week that you don't want it anymore? Pretty tacky to exploit the death of a free speech advocate to get rid of it, regardless.

Marketing, No company markets a product  that ceases to make a profit.

Free speech is only allowed if it's approved by lefties, all other must be cancelled.

[Chrissy1979]

Just now, Legato said:

Marketing, No company markets a product  that ceases to make a profit.

Free speech is only allowed if it's approved by lefties, all other must be cancelled.

You're trying to pretend you're not a pathetic hypocrite who is spitting on Charlie Kirk's grave by using his death to destroy something he dedicated his life to? Were you always against free speech or did that just start this week?

[Legato]

Just now, Chrissy1979 said:

You're trying to pretend you're not a pathetic hypocrite who is spitting on Charlie Kirk's grave by using his death to destroy something he dedicated his life to? Were you always against free speech or did that just start this week?

Two short planks do not make a platform, try common sense.

[Chrissy1979]

22 minutes ago, Legato said:

Two short planks do not make a platform, try common sense.

I'll take that as a yes.

[Legato]

4 minutes ago, Chrissy1979 said:

I'll take that as a yes.

Why not given two choices you always pick the wrong one.

[Shady]

Live by the sword die by the sword 

 

[Chrissy1979]

44 minutes ago, Shady said:

Live by the sword die by the sword 

 

The second amendment, which defines free speech, is specifically about government censorship—-not private companies responding to public demands. Again, baby, were you ever in favor of free speech (I don’t know)? If you were, did you just stop being in favor last week?

[CdnFox]

4 hours ago, robosmith said:

@CdnFox Kimmel hasn't been canceled.

September 18, 2025: Why Jimmy Kimmel’s show was yanked off the air | CNN Business

 

Looks pretty canceled to me. They're saying they're going to put something else in that slot as well so it doesn't sound like a temporary suspension

I was clear in another post that I'm a little uncomfortable with this. I feel his comments were horrible taste but I don't feel they crossed the line into actually suggesting that the killing was okay, unlike we've seen with most of the others who even if they say the killing was wrong then go on to explain why it's great that he's dead. I do feel it cross the line of good taste and if the parent company wants to fire him over that I guess that's their right. I'd be more against it if he had said it on his own time and he was getting fired for it but he did say it on their dime and they have to wear the backlash so maybe this wasn't the right moment to try and paint everyone who disagreed with this killing as some sort of terrible monster.

But any either case he appears to have been fired. 

35 minutes ago, Chrissy1979 said:

The second amendment, which defines free speech, is specifically about government censorship—-not private companies responding to public demands. Again, baby, were you ever in favor of free speech (I don’t know)? If you were, did you just stop being in favor last week?

You've never been in favor of it so you really don't have the right to ask

[gatomontes99]

6 hours ago, Chrissy1979 said:

The second amendment, which defines free speech, is specifically about government censorship—-not private companies responding to public demands. Again, baby, were you ever in favor of free speech (I don’t know)? If you were, did you just stop being in favor last week?

1st.

[BeaverFever]

Even Ted Cruz knows this is wrong:

 

 

Dangerous as hell’: Cruz blasts FCC’s Jimmy Kimmel takedown

The Texas Republican called Brendan Carr’s actions “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’”

Cassandra Dumay09/19/2025, 1:05pm ET

Sen. Ted Cruz on his podcast Friday admonished Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr for demanding ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show over comments regarding Charlie Kirk — calling Carr’s actions “dangerous as hell” and “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’”

“If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives,” said the Texas Republican.

….

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/19/congress/cruz-calls-out-fcc-for-taking-down-jimmy-kimmel-00573159

[Shady]

Yep.  This is why I have no f**ks left to give.

 

[Chrissy1979]

19 minutes ago, Shady said:

Yep.  This is why I have no f**ks left to give.

 

So you just started being against free speech? Is there anything else Charlie Kirk stood for that you now oppose since he died? How about persecution of trans people? 😂 

[Shady]

17 minutes ago, Chrissy1979 said:

So you just started being against free speech? Is there anything else Charlie Kirk stood for that you now oppose since he died? How about persecution of trans people? 😂 

I just don’t care, especially regarding Kimmel.  You guys do the heavy lifting on this one.  You guys weaponized cancel culture for years, and are now only concerned because it’s been turned against you.  It’s poetic justice as far as I’m concerned.  Good luck though.

Never forget.

 

[SpankyMcFarland]

So any posters here ready to defend American nincompoop Pete Hoekstra, also an ambassador apparently, who blames Canada - yes, you’re reading that right - for the tension between our countries these days?

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The U.S. ambassador to Canada is expressing frustration over the anti-American sentiment he sees in this country, including from politicians, after U.S. President Donald Trump hit most of the world with tariffs. 

Asked what surprised him about Canada since starting his new role in April, Pete Hoekstra said Thursday that what's most "unexpected" is the country's feelings about the U.S. 

"I'm disappointed that I came to Canada — a Canada that it is very, very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship," Hoekstra said at an event hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.

"You ran a campaign where it was anti-American, elbows up, me too. You know, that was an anti-American campaign. That has continued. That's disappointing."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us-ambassador-to-canada-disappointed-anti-american-campaign-1.7637534

Edited September 20, 2025 by SpankyMcFarland

[SpankyMcFarland]

12 hours ago, Shady said:

Live by the sword die by the sword 

 

Disney again which says something. I didn’t agree with that firing either but the big difference is it wasn’t the government doing it. Trump is following the same playbook as Putin and El-Sisi who both went after comedians. Incredibly, free speech took an even bigger hit in Egypt after Morsi was overthrown. Autocrats hate ridicule. 

[SpankyMcFarland]

18 hours ago, Shady said:

Kimmel cheered on when other people got fired in a similar manner.  He reaped what he sowed.

Show me one example in this forum where you defended free speech.

Whatever he said he isn’t the government. There lies the difference. 

[SpankyMcFarland]

4 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

Even Ted Cruz knows this is wrong:

 

 

 

Dangerous as hell’: Cruz blasts FCC’s Jimmy Kimmel takedown

The Texas Republican called Brendan Carr’s actions “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’”

Cassandra Dumay09/19/2025, 1:05pm ET

Sen. Ted Cruz on his podcast Friday admonished Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr for demanding ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show over comments regarding Charlie Kirk — calling Carr’s actions “dangerous as hell” and “right out of ‘Goodfellas.’”

“If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives,” said the Texas Republican.

….

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/19/congress/cruz-calls-out-fcc-for-taking-down-jimmy-kimmel-00573159

Fair play to Cruz. I didn’t take him for a libertarian or someone bothered by principles too much. He was willing to join the dots and call out the reality of an implicit threat made by a powerful person which is exactly what organized crime does; if you know who I am I don’t have to spell it out and incriminate myself, do I? We know what we’re talking about here. Of course, he’ll take a lot of heat for this from the Trump mob. 

The campaign line that Trump is not a politician has some truth in it. Yes, he’s a brilliant salesman who can flog his line to people but he didn’t learn to respect the rules of the democratic game over decades, in particular what you can’t do when in office. 

What Cruz doesn't seem to appreciate is that Trump and those who do his thinking for him have no intention of letting their authoritarian moves be bad for conservatives because they don’t intend to ever give Democrats the opportunity run the country again.

 

[SpankyMcFarland]

18 hours ago, Legato said:

Bullshit, both Nexstar and Sinclair decided to pull the show from all their affiliates a day before the FCC made any comment.

Why don't you face the fact that the Kimmell show was not wanted, had terrible ratings and was bleeding cash.

The whole thing was a marketing ploy. Kimmel made a stupid comment which was the catalyst for the shows removal.

Do you have a reputable link to that effect? That is the first I heard of that claim. What I did hear was that the executives were ‘pissing themselves’ after they heard Carr’s threat. 

[CouchPotato]

Dozens of ABC stations to air Charlie Kirk tribute special at Jimmy Kimmel’s time slot after Disney indefinitely shelves show

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Dozens of ABC affiliate stations will air a tribute special for Charlie Kirk in Jimmy Kimmel’s time slot on Friday following the liberal host’s controversial remarks about the conservative activist’s alleged assassin.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/media/dozens-of-abc-stations-to-air-charlie-kirk-tribute-special-at-jimmy-kimmels-time-slot/

[Legato]

6 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Do you have a reputable link to that effect? That is the first I heard of that claim. What I did hear was that the executives were ‘pissing themselves’ after they heard Carr’s threat. 

Look it up yourself the info has been around for days. 

[Shady]

39 minutes ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

Whatever he said he isn’t the government. There lies the difference. 

The government didn’t suspend him, ABC did.  Regardless, the Biden administration pressured social media to censor, and deplatform people for speaking out against certain things, like covid.  Sorry, zero f**ks left to give.