Bullshit
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Gaslighters are gonna gaslight.
Carr said that “what I spoke about last week is that when concerns are raised about news distortion … there’s an easy way for parties to address that and work that out. In the main, that takes place between local television stations that are licensed by the FCC and what we call national programmers like Disney. They work that out, and there doesn’t need to be any involvement of the FCC.”
He added: “Now, if they don’t, there’s a way that is not as easy, which is someone can file a complaint at the FCC, and then the FCC, by law, as set up by Congress, has to adjudicate that complaint. And what I’ve been very clear in the context of the Kimmel episode, is the FCC, and myself in particular, have expressed no view on the ultimate merits.”
Bullshit word salad.
Also from this article, but I want to remind people of this, too:
Carr, appearing on Benny Johnson’s podcast, called Kimmel’s remark “some of the sickest conduct possible.”
This is what Carr thought was "some of the sickest conduct possible":
Kimmel said, “We had 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 with everything they can to score political points from it.”
So, for Brendan Carr, "the sickest conduct possible" refers to comedians making extremely tame jokes about politicians and saying exactly what they were doing. "The sickest conduct possible" is apparently not what the politicians were actually doing, when they were exploiting Kirk's death for their own gains.
You know, personally, when I think of "the sickest conduct possible," I tend to think of other things. Maybe things more similar to assaulting and raping children or sexually assaulting women in a changing room. You know, actually bad things where people get hurt. Not stuff where you're just telling the truth to politicians who are embarrassed by the truth.
Or like Brian Kill-em-all saying ON AIR that homeless people should all just be murdered by lethal injection.
Everyone keeps reposting that monologue quote but completely ignores the part where he just played clips of Trump not seeming to give a damn that Kirk had been murdered.
The FCC chair threatened to kill a merger for Nextstar if they didn't threaten ABC to get Kimmel taken off the air, because he insulted Trump, Nextstar pressured ABC, and ABC capitulated.
This was never about comments Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk, and shame on the entirely of media in this country for framing it that way. This was because Jimmy Kimmel insulted President Donald Trump.
What you're saying is true, but the problem is that the part where Trump doesn't give a shit about Kirk can't be spun. There is nobody who would see Kimmel criticizing Trump for having zero empathy for Kirk, and accept the spin that it was an insult towards Kirk.
On the other hand, the first part can be spun. They say that Kimmel was lying about the assassin's motives which dishonors the memory of Kirk. Of course, Kimmel said no such thing.
In fact, he was saying that MAGA was lying about the assassin's motives. As far as I know, we still haven't heard anything about the killer's motives, so anybody who claims they know the killer's motives, even his parents, are just making shit up.
So, as far as I can tell, Kimmel was doing what MAGA was claiming that they were doing, being respectful towards Kirk, while calling out people who were being disrespectful. And meanwhile, MAGA was doing what they were claiming Kimmel was doing, lying about the shooter's motives. But I won't say that this really dishonors Kirk. He'd have lied, too.
Reminds me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mOY7OMHh4
Dwight Schrute: I didn't know that you were at a party on Saturday night.
Ryan Howard: I go to a lot of parties.
Dwight Schrute: Okay, I'm gonna need to search your car. Give me your keys.
Ryan Howard: I am not giving you my keys.
Dwight Schrute: Don't make me do this the hard way.
Ryan Howard: What's the hard way?
Dwight Schrute: I go down to the police station on my lunch break. I tell a police officer, I know several, what I suspect you may have in your car. He requests a hearing from a judge and obtains a search warrant. Once he has said warrant, he will drive over here, and make you give him the keys to your car and you will have to obey him.
Ryan Howard: Yeah, let's do it that way.
“Everything I say or do is a joke unless I get away with it.”
Utter and complete bullshit.
He needs to be removed from his position immediately and have an investigation opened into his actions
I mean, yes, but....
LOL. good one.
I mean, it does need to happen.
It's just part of a long list of other things that also need to happen
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Conservatives are liars, hypocrites and bullies.
The fact that nobody ever calls them out for the blatantly obvious lies to their face is the most infuriating thing of all. They think we're brainless monkeys and they get away with it because nobody pushes back
Plenty of people call them out on it - they've just spent my lifetime insulating themselves from any impact coming from it.
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And most of all: scared.
Buddy I know a pile of shit when I see it. Call it fudge all you like, but even after you take a bite to reassure me you're not lying, we both know the truth.
OK. Did anyone complain to FCC about a certain turd gleefully advocating euthanasia of the homeless? What's happening with that investigation?
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Maga lying sack of crap
Bullshit
Bullshit
Violation of Civil Rights under the color of law.
If we still have elections in 2026-2028, I have a feeling this hopped up nobody is going to be made an example out of.
Bullshit
"I said to take care of him. I did not specify what that meant, you're just putting words into my mouth" - "plausible" deniability
Trump's Nazis lie with each breath.
"Nazi" is no longer hyperbole.
Lol.
"No no no, I meant easy at in less paperwork! An offer you can't refuse? No no, that's buy one get one free. And when I said you should meet my little friend, I meant our coworker Joey. He's 5'7"!"
I'll echo again Bull. Shit.
Bullshit
Really having trouble interpreting that as anything other than a threat.
More Mafia tactics. Playing the plausable deniability game and gaslighting. What an asshole.
It's gonna be great when all these fascists are dead
looks like this dumbass didn't realize he took the hard way.
eat shit maga cuck.
I see we have reached the "and if it was (bad), I didn't mean it" stage of the Narcissist's Prayer.
what? he said it iROnicAlLY??
I didn't say it
And if I did, I didn't mean it
And if I didn't, I was joking
And if I wasn't, you are overreacting
or something like that
It wasn't a threat, it was an offer they couldn't refuse.
('couldn't' in sense of capitalism)
FCC Chairman: Someone should take care of Jimmy Kimmel.
[deep state assassins terminate Kimmel]
FCC Chairman: Noooo! Not like that!!
About as convincing as Ray on trailer park boys getting busted for solicitation. "What? Prostitution? That money wasn't for sex! It was for... This is illegal!"
More people who say it like it is but constantly don’t mean what it sounds like they’re saying.
👌👍. Jackass.
Let the backpedaling begin!
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