The right cancels Kimmel
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Kimmel canceled Kimmel.
Actually ABC and Disney canceled him.
No NextStar one of the largest group of TV station in the US told ABC they would be preempting Kemmil for the foreseeable future. Disney and ABC decided to pull Kemmil. Not a righty in site.
And you lied about what Kemmil said it was more like
the right wanted the killer to be anyone but one of them.
Not
the right wanted the killer to be anyone but who he is….
Kemmil was suggesting Robinson was from the right. I think we all know that is not true.
Damn that is TWICE today you made me agree with you. STOP IT!!
BartenderElite
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There is such a "oh, good - we're all MAGA now!" vibe going on.
People are talking like they want one party rule, and all national voices to only reflect the MAGA agenda.
Charlie Kirk wanted dialogue. Are people forgetting that?
People are talking like they want one party rule, and all national voices to only reflect the MAGA agenda.
Charlie Kirk wanted dialogue. Are people forgetting that?
tigerred59
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Who didn't see this coming? When Joe and Mika went to kiss the ass of Trump last year, when Joy Ried and Cobert were cancelled and a whole slew of liberal voices silenced and funding for free media broadcasting silenced, anyone with a working brain cell could see the baby bitch Trump is out to rule the ignorant. Trump himself has said and I quote " The smart people hate me". unquote. The one thing Trump fail to understand....this country will never ever ever become a nation of one rule, not ever. Charlie Kirk is not a God, he's just another casualty of violence in a country overwhelmed with guns and no amount of cancel culture will erase those facts.
Crepitus
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Yeah, it's just a coincidence they another left leaning pundit is being cancelled after tRump bitches about him.
While I have your attention I have been meaning to talk to you about this bridge I have for sale....
Crepitus
Verified User
They only liked him for hating the same folks they do. They didn't really listen to him.
These late night shows got out of comedy and fun, went into politics.....and no longer make money.
They are easy to cancel.
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
A right-winger is now in charge of the FCC though, and he threatened ABC and their parent company...
This is trump and MAGA shutting down all opposition to them.
Nothing less than a Stalinist takeover of America and the idiots are all cheering for it.
Teflon Don
I'm back baby
The right owns ABC?
They’ve always been into politics.
Matt Dillon
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Matt Dillon
Retardium User
Actually, nothing less than taxpayer money getting cut off from assholes that propagandize Americans.
It's a beautiful thing! Thank you, Elon Musk.
Scott
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No, but they are a large corporation that apparently got the drift of how things were going and decided to go with the flow. An article from Matt Taibbi I just took a look at gets into things. I only see the non paid walled part, but it's still quite good. Here it is:
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From Variety:
Well, shit. This could get ugly. Just before Disney’s decision, FCC chair Brendan Carr said Kimmel’s statements were “some of the sickest conduct possible” and his agency had a “strong case” for holding the company accountable for trying to “lie to the American people” about a major news story. “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” he continued. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Carr added that he wanted to “reinvigorate” the FCC’s “public interest standard.” He listed people like Joy Ann Reid, Stephen Colbert, and Terry Moran, noted that Donald Trump successfully ran against such legacy media figures, and that “their grip on the narrative is slipping.” Still, he said, the FCC still needs to make sure firms leasing public airwaves uphold their public interest obligation.
Of all the network late night acts, Kimmel’s was the most vicious and unredeeming, continually hitting new lows during the pandemic in particular, with the aforementioned AntiVax Barbie and his “Rest in Peace, Wheezy” monologue sure to go down as cultural anti-landmarks. Virtually everything he said in the Trump era was DNC messaging with a punchline, putting him on course to spend the afterlife doing laps in media hell with Keith Olbermann. With his ratings in freefall, Disney was going to drop the axe sooner or later.
But acting so quickly after Carr’s “easy way or the hard way” line opens a can of worms. Now the organic demise of legacy media (definitely happening, and at lightning speed too) can’t be an unmuddied story. What Carr described would reimagine the FCC as a press regulator in a full-on truth-arbiter role, in the spirit of Britain’s hated OfCom. That feels like a big jump from where the Administration was in February, when J.D. Vance lambasted Europeans in Munich for losing sight of basic tenets of democracy, including the “freedom… to make mistakes.” Either way, wild news; Walter and I will talk it through on the next America This Week.
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cawacko
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I've never watched late night TV. Just not my thing. But I looked this up, so if you're a connoisseur of it I'd appreciate your feedback.
My understanding is people like Carson and Leno was more about broad jokes and funny one liners. They made fun of whoever was in office but it was more about the humor than any partisanship.
Jon Stewart wasn't late night comedy but he changed things and influenced those who followed him.
That led into Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers et al. who spend much more time on politics and are more openly liberal in that regard.
So politics wasn't absent in the past, it just wasn't as partisan or central to the shows.