Strangling Kimmel’s free speech while martyring Charlie Kirk
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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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?
So Charlie Kirk suffered the same consequences using your analogy. Trump is innocent of all charges right? Setting insurrectionists free is your idea of Trumps lawfare? God give us strength. Not sure you’re should carryon.
That’s a lie, all you have are lies
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.
You are clearly delusional. Did you not see the atrocities on Capitol Hill?
Take your Fox News misreporting and bury it with Charlie Kirk.
How about the gigantic BLM “peaceful” protests in the middle of a pandemic which were just a-ok? How about the black on white murders that get no traction? How about the grooming scandal in the UK which were ignored because of police being scared of being labelled due to repressive leftish groupthink?
How about all the people Sam has listed below as being cancelled.
And as for Capitol Hill, whatever you think that is the only time a protest has actually targeted the people causing all the misery (politicians).
Trump has canceled everyone and everything that disagrees with his right wing tyranny. That makes him a dictator and you one of his disciples as you clearly have no individual intellectual thought process and just repeat his myriad of lies.
Would you be more comfortable sharing left or right wing views in most public settings? Exactly. STFU.
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.
Fantasy. Tyler Robinson is a Far-Left lunatic who wrote pro-Antifa and trans slogans on the shell casings and lived with a trans-woman (who’s social media is filled with pro-Democrat comments). The idea that the shooter was MAGA is laughably delusional and has already been debunked.
Even CNN has now disavowed the MAGA claim. It’s dishonest complete bullshit.
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.
and that’s why you are a disingenuous prick Nitrium – you allow what Trump is doing because it scratches some itch for vengeance you have
Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.
Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too.
Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes.
Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him.
Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions.
Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs.
Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight.
J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind.
Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts.
Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship.
they all deserved it because they were all evil
Lindell and Jones are both swivel-eyed loons with a tentative grasp on reality, and both were peddling blatant falsehoods — Lindell insisting Orange Caligula didn’t lose the election when he demonstrably did, and Jones claiming a fucking school shooting was some kind of false flag operation. Both of them have faced judicial and financial consequences for being shitty people, and have been crying about it ever since.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
“Continuing to give Mr Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time”
change “public interest” for “our viewers” and it’s more accurate.
He was getting paid a fortune for a show that was failing in ratings. Same as Colbert. And just like – wait for it – Tucker Carlson, the company paying him decided that he was hurting their profits.
It’s just business 101 and as the late night talk show model continues to fail he won’t be the last scalp.