Oh look, who are the cancel culture bitches now?
ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air for Charlie Kirk comments
Disney-owned ABC will take its late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air following conservative backlash to comments Kimmel made on air in the wake of United States right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk’s death.
A network spokesperson did not comment beyond saying that the show will be pre-empted “indefinitely”.
The biggest owner of ABC-affiliated stations, Nexstar, said earlier today that Kimmel’s programme would be replaced starting today, linking the move to statements the late-night show host made about last week’s killing of Kirk.
“Mr Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located,” Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division, wrote in a statement.
“Continuing to give Mr Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to pre-empt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue,” Alford added.
Fuck Disney.
This is nothing short of strangling Free Speech while martyring Charlie Kirk.
The Right screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed and about cancel culture while pretending to give a fuck about Free Speech and it was all hypocrisy.
The Right have weaponised Free Speech, they are not champions of it!
This is about Trump using the terrible assassination of Kirk as a means of silencing critics, exactly like a fascist would!
You can’t pretend that Kimmel’s comments were offensive, they were funny and insightful.
The Right Wing Hate trolls pretend to protect free speech when it’s really about them strangling free speech.
The trump administration are using Kirk’s death as a means to crack down on any Left wing organisation that they want to destroy…
JD Vance threatens crackdown on ‘far-left’ groups after Charlie Kirk shooting
…I told you Trump was a fascist, him gloating over critics being silenced is exactly what fascists do.
Fuck the Right and fuck Disney.
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel!
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The decision by Disney is correct taken because of offensive, insensitive remarks, not a stifling of free speech.
Bob the first – The Left started Cancel culture…now it’s been used against them.
Basing the sacking of someone on claims that what they said is “offensive” or “insensitive” is exactly the sort of ‘cancel culture’ that the Right said was a danger to free speech.
But here’s the thing: the futile, childish, idiocies of left-liberal cancel culture are like schoolyard ostracism when compared to actual state repression and being picked up by some ICE goons in body armour for having the wrong opinions. And that’s the direction where the Right in the USA is going.
To summarise: the Right’s revenge for the irritating, impotent blather of left-liberal cancel culture is taking the form of actual state-sanctioned authoritarianism. And we are meant to believe that this is somehow justified by the original ‘crime’ of cancel culture.
So the decision by the shooter against Charlie Kirk was correct because of offensive, insensitive remarks.
You do not get to decide what is correct or incorrect. When the right shut down debate that is facist.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence.
Kimmel was broadcasting misinformation (eg saying the shooter was MAGA), didn’t Ardern even have a department set up to combat that?
Anyway who would have thought all that deplatforming and lawfare against Trump would have been so consequence free?
Sorry, the left have created this situation by policing language, doxing, threatening, and generally controlling “acceptable” discourse for the last couple of decades at least. This is on top of misreporting and outright ignoring stories that don’t fit their narrative. The left are reaping what they have sown and now their media hegemony is collapsing too. Naturally, here in NZ, we are behind the times.
Similarly, the rightwing fucktards in Aotearoa/NZ emulate their political tribe in the US these fuckers are unapologetically unhinged uses the dirties trick to get their message out
Kimmel is caught up in a corporate power play, and his head is required to assist it to go through.
What Jimmy did was point out the unpleasant truth for MAGAs that Kirk was killed by one of their own.
The right taking out the left before forcing worship on everyone was predicted thousands of years ago, so maybe it’s time to reconsider the assumptions you all live by regarding where we are going?
What goes around comes around. The Left infamously had forced the firing and cancelling of Gina Carano and Rosanne Barr for their statements on Twitter. The precedent was set by the Left that this is okay. You reap what you sow.