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MolotovCocktail says

Then why is he getting fired just now?

Why is that slime Stelter back on CNN? Why is Macron still installed in France? Why is Bibi perpetually installed in Israel? Why is fucking Tony Blair still on the scene. They never go away because__________. Fill in the blanks.

Ceffer says

MolotovCocktail says

Then why is he getting fired just now?

Why is that slime Stelter back on CNN? Why is Macron still installed in France? Why is Bibi perpetually installed in Israel? Why is fucking Tony Blair still on the scene. They never go away because__________. Fill in the blanks.

https://youtu.be/5x5Zv2i83cg?feature=shared

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html

ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments

zzyzzx says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html

ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel show off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments

I think it's good, but does anyone actually watch the show anyway? I don't even stumble across video clips of him and if I do, it's an immediate skip.

Even on the Man Show I never liked the guy and that was zero politics. He's really always been an unlikable guy.

I think is was an out for the network, I think the show was loosing money.

RC2006 says

I think is was an out for the network, I think the show was loosing money.

Absolutely. These networks already have political shows on Sundays. Late night was supposed to make you laugh. When the entire monologue is bashing either party it's total trash, mostly conservative because of TDS.

Trump is legitimately funnier than any of these hosts. I think Seth Myers will be next. Fallon will probably go too. I think the late night market is dead.

It's good to document Kimmel verbatim here:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/alpha-wolf-thursday-september-18

And Jimmy definitely wasn’t funny when, in Monday night’s monologue, he claimed Charlie Kirk’s homosexual assassin was a far-right MAGA conservative. “We hit some new lows over the weekend,” Jimmy unironically said while hitting a new low, “with the MAGA gang 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 you can imagine, given the tenderness of the present moment, wild backlash ensued. Trump’s new FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr, lashed forwards. He said (on a podcast) that, “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the F.C.C. ahead.” He never said what the F.C.C.’s additional work would be.

I don’t like cancel culture both ways.

Fortwaye says

I don’t like cancel culture both ways.

Agreed but he wasn't canceled. He spread libel about the MAGA movement. Granted it's hard to prosecute if you target a group but the decision made by the network was purely business driven as they don't want to expose themselves to potentially costly lawsuits. He wasn't canceled for his views, he was let go because he became a financially risky asset for them by deliberately spreading lies.

Fortwaye says

I don’t like cancel culture both ways.

Kimmel hasn't been funny in years.

"But who will pick our crops?”

In order to deter behavior, the punishment must be somewhat disproportionate to the bad behavior. Libtards started cancel culture, and they need to experience an order of magnitude greater than what they dished out in order for them to realize that cancelling is method that is more trouble than it's worth.

That's what MAGA is doing. It's to teach a lesson to those libtards who remain standing and aren't sentenced to decades in prison - don't ever try this shit again.

Patrick says

Not sure if I'm more offended by the people or McDonalds. I throw up with either choice.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gone-fishing-friday-september-19

As you know, Iger suspended the show, and he had solid reasons, lots of them, and apart from anything Carr said. That said, existing FCC regulations governing “false information concerning a crime or catastrophe” fully justified Carr’s warning:

The Commission's prohibition against the broadcast of hoaxes is set forth at Section 73.1217 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.S 73.1217.
This rule prohibits broadcast licensees or permittee from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if:
1. the licensee knows this information is false;
2. it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm; and
3. broadcast of the information does fact directly cause substantial public harm.

Whatever Brendan Carr did on Tuesday is a tiny crumb compared to the wedding cake of censorship Democrats have been shoving down the media’s throat for generations.

Remember Biden sending FBI agents to Facebook to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story?

Democrats have kept their tight, iron grip on media and Hollywood out of a credible threat of retaliation. For 20 years, corporate America has been taught to believe Democrats will always punish them if they don’t play progressive ball. What else, for example, are DEI requirements in federal contracting rules? It’s a plain threat: If you don’t adopt DEI, no more contracts.

But, until now, conservatives were not willing or able to play the same game.

We have soared past the point of think-tank debates. The stakes are for Western Civilization itself. The best way to get Democrats to agree to fix the problem they created is by making it into their problem. Yesterday, President Trump defiantly told reporters that one-sided broadcasters should lose their licenses. Game on.

Jimmy Kimmel is not a free speech crisis. Free speech has been under attack by Democrats in government for decades. But as boomers and Gen-Xers know, you can’t solve a bullying problem by making the kids shake hands. Somebody has to punch the bully in the nose.

And … Trump’s strategy is working. Already. Behold the next story.

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an astonishing story headlined, “Democrats Pitch Bill to Protect Speech Targeted by Trump.” It only took one lame comedian. They’re not laughing anymore. ...

The Times explained that yesterday, a group of Senate and House Democrats announced their sudden and unexpected plan to introduce a bill to “bolster legal protections for people targeted by President Trump.” That’s the Times’s framing; the bill, of course, would not be limited to President Trump. Behold, in the Times’s words:

A summary of the bill, entitled the No Political Enemies Act, or
NOPE, outlined a series of legal protections for people targeted for
political speech. It said the bill would create a specific legal defense
for those targeted for political reasons and allow them to recover
attorney fees if they were subjected to government harassment for
expressing their views.
And it would make it easier to sue federal officials for abusing their
power to silence critics.

That actually sounds terrific. Had Americans enjoyed access to a law like NOPE during the pandemic, everything would have been different. This is precisely what has been missing— a viable way for ordinary citizens to sue the government over speech suppression.

As the Democrats well know, the secret sauce is including the right to recover attorney’s fees. That way, public interest lawyers can take these difficult cases even if the client is broke. Clients shouldn’t have to fund these cases anyway.

If the stars in the sky were federal statutes, then only a few tiny, distant dots would represent laws allowing citizens to sue the government. The rest of the sky and the vast arrays of constellations are shielded from suit by a firmament called “sovereign immunity,” which is a blanket rule precluding citizens’ cases against the government absent an authorizing law.

Defying all prediction, somehow, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension (he isn’t even fired!) has now prompted Democrats into proposing a real solution for one of conservatives’ biggest complaints: the egregious excesses of Twitter files censorship. Since we haven’t yet seen it, who knows whether the NOPE bill’s text will actually have teeth. But things are obviously moving in the right direction.

The turnaround was so astonishing that you could even call it miraculous. Democrats have not exactly championed free speech. After all, they are the party of microaggression, deplatforming, virtue-signaling, social media censorship, hate speech, and cancel culture. We could recite a long list of Democrat cancellation victims. But I’ll just offer this single example from Newsweek, 2022:

The FBI Colluded With Twitter to
Suppress Free Speech. Where Is the
Outrage?
DEC 21, 2022

Where, indeed, was the outrage? Democrats’ current embrace of free speech rhetoric —amid a sea change in the balance of government power— stands in stark contrast to Democrats’ shrugs when censorship involved agencies controlled by their own party.

Back in 2022, Democrats did not introduce any NOPE bills while the dark night of fascism was descending on America. They could hardly remember Senator McCarthy in 2022, never mind invoke his ghost. In fact, in 2022, Democrat think-tanks were publishing Orwellian papers arguing that the First Amendment was obsolete and new laws regulating speech were needed to “protect democracy.”

But now they are clutching the Constitution’s sacred essence like there’s no tomorrow. “The Trump administration should not use the assassination of Mr. Kirk to rip up the First Amendment, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) said.”

In other words, Democrats love censorship, except when it’s directed at them, even a little. Their sudden self-interest is wholly contingent on being out of power.

But never mind all the hypocrisy. The point is, we are at the point where Democrats are proposing new laws protecting First Amendment rights and letting citizens sue federal officials who censor them. And, mark my words, rank-and-file Democrats will line up behind this free-speech effort since it’s aimed at Trump.

All it took was for them to believe that conservatives were willing to play the same games they’ve been playing. That, and one suspended late-night host (who is mid at best), plus a non-apologetic Trump threatening even more.

President Trump has done it again. He’s forced the Democrats to adopt his position. If Republicans play this right, we may get everything we ever hoped that the Weaponization Committee could produce.

Now that the shoe's on the other foot, it's all about the 1st amendment. Better late than never for the libtards, only, why do they have to push a law which is superfluous to the First Amendment, unless they never respected it in the first place.

Patrick says

The Commission's prohibition against the broadcast of hoaxes is set forth at Section 73.1217 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.S 73.1217.
This rule prohibits broadcast licensees or permittee from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if:
1. the licensee knows this information is false;
2. it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm; and
3. broadcast of the information does fact directly cause substantial public harm.

So why are they still on the air after airing the Russia Hoax, then?

The assault on free speech is a monster that the Left has cultivated and released on America for over 15 years now.
The only way you can defeat the Democrats and stop the Commie spread, is to use their own tools against them.
I have always said that, I was saying that back when I was the only one on Patrick.net calling Democrats Commies, to which 90% of you thought it was bombastic hyperbole.
I have always appreciated, and talked about how Democrats sets precedence by starting detrimental policies that they believe will hinder or hamstring their Republican opponents. They get some mileage out of it, but eventually the electorate catches up and sends a Republican house and Senate or President. Then those apparati the Democrats created to get a leg up on the Republicans, are then used against the Democrats by the Republicans.
Much like how Obama repealed the Smith-Mundt Act, only to have Conservatives invent truthful Propaganda(Memes) to kick the living snot out of them, and rip the 2016 political agenda right out from under their noses.
While we should never celebrate the government stepping into a free speech fight. A truth to keep in mind, is the late night shows are basically state(one party) sponsored propaganda, and those shows should be shut down and all other propaganda mills as well.
But more importantly, this is a fight, all of the back seat Republican RINOs need to sit this one out. Now is not the time for the weak kneed milquetoast conservatives to be the voice of reason.
The Democrats started the assault on free speech, where were those voice of reason RINOs while the Democrats has been waging an all out assault on Conservative free speech, upping the ante at every turn. These Bastards has set the world stage for the free speech tyranny, that we see wide spread around the world.

If we take the high road and pull back on taking it all back to them. The only thing that will happen, we will play nice until they get back in power then it's full steam ahead again, with a vengeance.
Trump needs to inflict so much 1a pain on the Left right now, that the whole Democrat body in Congress breaks down and creates a bipartisan bill with the Republicans, to re-ratify the importance of our second and first amendment. Make them be the biggest voice calling for it, make them cry for it with real tears of pain, with honest remorseful inflection.

Tenpoundbass says

Trump needs to inflict so much 2a pain on the Left right now, that the whole Democrat body in Congress breaks down and creates a bipartisan bill with the Republicans, to re-ratify the importance of our second amendment. Make them be the biggest voice calling for it, make them cry for it with real tears of pain, with honest remorseful inflection.

For example? What do you think Trump (an anti-gunner at heart who banned bump stocks by executive order in his first term) can do to protect and enhance the second amendment protections?

PeopleUnited says

(an anti-gunner at heart who banned bump stocks by executive order in his first term)

But the Supreme Court over turned it, 4 years into Biden's administration.
If you recall at the time, we just saw the Las Vegas shooting. The Mockingbird media was calling for a total repeal of 2A.
Trump knew it would be over turned if challenged by SCOTUS, he took congressional action away from Congress, much harder to overturn. And made his own preemptive decision. How did banning bump stocks personally affect you? Or are you just one of those that are content to stand over Trump's shoulder and second guess every action, not realizing the battle against the commies is the real fight here?

But I'm not sure what your "Whataboutism" has to do with the free speech fight.

whoops I was speaking of 1A in my original post, but realize I put 2A. Both are equally under assault by the Left. But I do get the confusion my wrong choice of Constitutional Amendments may have caused.

But here's a weak kneed RINO cock sucker I was talking about in my post above.
Rand Paul is all Dildo Hurt over the FCC reciprocating some "Administrative" Justice on ABC and Kimel.
Where was this lying scumbag piece of shit, during the Obama and Biden assault on free speech and the 1st amendment?

We need to get rid of all of these bastards in their next election. Ron Paul was even thrown under the bus by this grandstanding asshole, when he ran for President. He was blown out of the race by Rand Paul's milquetoast comments, about how Ron Paul's America First policies was isolationists, and bemoaned how they wouldn't work.
Now this bastard has an axe to grind with Donald Trump, because Trump's actions during his first term proved that Rand Paul doesn't know dick about anything. And his chances of ever running as a serious Presidential candidate is zilch.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/09/21/rand-paul-absolutely-inappropriate-for-fcc-to-weigh-in-on-kimmel-suspension

Jimmy Kimmel was tragically cancelled, while Charlie Kirk was peacefully shot.

Tenpoundbass says

whoops

That’s all you needed to say.

BTW I basically hate bump stocks but it was wrong cow to pressure and to ban them. Shall not be infringed is pretty clear language. And it is BS to think he wrote the ban knowing 4 years later it would be overturned.

Trump is not fighting the commies, he is just disrupting the status quo which is about all a president can do. What we need is the Congress and courts to get rid of all the commie laws and other unconstitutional rules.

PeopleUnited says

What we need is the Congress and courts to get rid of all the commie laws and other unconstitutional rules.

And that is likely to never happen, the bulk of them are currupt.

PeopleUnited says

What we need is the Congress and courts to get rid of all the commie laws and other unconstitutional rules.

Courts are the biggie. Last line of defense. That's why Clarence Thomas needs to retire during Trumps term and Trump has the votes most likely for the new selection before the midterms. He's 77, but let's be honest, he's black and has a lower life expectancy. If you cannot guarantee a 2028 victory in the Congress and POTUS he's starting to become a liability above 80. I know it's a do nothing job and your minion attorneys write it up and you approve it, but still, you shouldn't be working at 80.

Sotomayor has some illness from what I've read. SCOTUS could be locked up generally more conservative for 20 years on 6-3 or even 7-2 margin. And if we can get another 8 years after Trump, the lower federal courts could be way better. We're at a pivot point. Conservatives are awful at getting out the vote, sad thought but I'm hoping that Kirk dying wakes them up.

This shows Kimmel being pushed by the person who is really wearing the pants in his family.

I pity the poor bitch who does this with me; she's going to be flat on her back in two seconds.