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FCC Chair Threatens Jimmy Kimmel Over Charlie Kirk Monologue Comments
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Why does America fear Trump so much? I don’t get it.
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He has an army of violent intimidators threatening any political opposition. Politicians on both sides have been threatened and will be killed. Mussolini had his black shirts, Hitler has the SS, Trump has his Proud Boys.
Ah, yes, the Proud Boys and their Pride Parade. Got it.
Kimmel has a italian citizenship, so he can jump ship anytime and leave the us forever. too bad people like ellen degeners, miley kunis and asthon kutcher left without facing consequences.
people should target where it hurts, subscriptions to paramount + and disney+,,,etc.
Holy shit. I love Tenn Hollar. Surprised to see it here.
So give that the FCC was threatening him, I wonder if he would have a case for 1st amendment violation case against this the Trump admin.
Are you fr? Do you really think "the system" will solve any of these problems?? Lol. Lmfao even
Let's see what the Supreme Court has to say? Oh wait...
Here it goes donald. Fuck you. Fuck that cunt kirk. And rubio. Fuck GOP. Fuck you all, bastards.
May they all become memorial fountains.
So to clarify.. Jimmy Kimmel did not even mention Charlie Kirk in this monologue more than as a reference to the killer.
he literally said
We hit some new lows over the weekend 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.
To classify this as "removed over comments about Charlie Kirk" is insane! He was talking about his killer and the reason he was removed was clarified by the FCC chair.
[This] appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into the narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or Republican-motivated person” - Brendan Carr
Yet all the headlines read "for comments about Charlie Kirk"!
Should all be saying "Removed for commenting on MAGAs actions following this shooting"
/edit typos
Kirk is about to become a MAGA-Martyr, so any comment about his death is a sacrilege to them.
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Emperor Manicula's tweet.
This is the President of the United States, tweeting about a talk show host. Everything has gone to shit so quickly and thoroughly that sometimes you have to take a step outside of it, back to the before times, to clear your head... and then you are once again returned to the realization that the fucking President is tweeting about talk show hosts.
Man, this guy is a fucking loser.
For real. I know we all know he's not really doing the work expected of his office already, but the fact he has the time and energy to care about such petty, childish things further confirms it.
The Cheetos didn't write that. That text is off, somehow, and written by a staff member or AI.
It was Creepy Stephens Dolls
Who cares it is on his account
It demonstrates the president's cognitive decline. Something we were very concerned about just one year ago.
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“[This] appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into the narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or Republican-motivated person,” Carr said. “What people don’t understand is that the broadcasters … have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. When we see stuff like this, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Welcome to your fascist state, ladies and gentlemen. If you don't kiss the ring and grease the palms, then you're out.
look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
Said exactly like a thug in a mob movie.
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We have a rule on the book that interprets the public interest standard that says ‘news distortion’ is something that is prohibited
Unbelievable. Nobody tell Fox News
If Fox News has straight-face lied to its viewers ONLY 25 times a day for the past 29 years, that’s 264,625 actual lies, not jokes.
So after Fox publicly and explicitly apologizes 264,625 times for each of its egregious lies, we can then entertain the idea of apologizing for delivering truth in the form of a joke on a comedy show.
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Fox News it literally calling for the execution of homeless people. How is that not hate speech?
They don’t see the homeless as people
Amd two separate shooting happen at homeless camps today. Yeah fuck FCC and fuck nazis
It is.
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Freedom and democracy.... cough cough
He should switch to Peertube.
ABC fucking took him off the air:
Walt Disney-owned ABC confirmed on Wednesday, Sept. 17, that it will indefinitely suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after the head of the Federal Communications Commission condemned comments made by the Emmy-winning comedian.
It’s pathetic what Trump and his band of goons are doing to America.
I almost moved to the US at one point. It’s never been perfect but I grew up seeing it as a force that did bring about a lot of good in the world.
This is pathetic.
“Not in the public interest,” that line is going to get squeezed for all its worth.
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