Facing pressure from the Trump administration on Monday, ABC—owned by Disney—announced it would be suspending the late-night television show Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely,” after the host came under attack from fascists and Trump administration officials over his commentary on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
These guys are about as generic lib as it gets, but axing Kimmel and Colbert feels significant in terms of the swelling of fascism. Even these nerds firing off nerf dart zingers are no longer being tolerated.
My take exactly. From what I was able to find of Kimmel’s comments he wasn’t even making fun of Kirk’s death so much as he was (correctly) pointing out that the Trump administration is trying to use it cynically for politics. Even milquetoast ‘dissent’ from the jesters of our time is no longer allowed in the mainstream.
Exactly, it wasn’t even as edgy as 2000’s bush era daily show got
the few minutes i listened to were not even about charlie himself, but about trump. thin-skinned as always
what’s the worst thing he even said about kirk without making me listen?
He said nothing about Kirk. He said that the MAGA people are doing everything they can to make the shooter appear as “not one of theirs” and then he attacked Trump for treating Kirk dying like a four year old treats a goldfish dying. That’s it.
In that clip he didn’t reference Kirk directly just the event iirc.
- “they really don’t want it to be one of their guys”
- “check out how much trump cares” [cue Trump footage: “yeah I’m doing alright, check out this ballroom though”]
Yea as much as there’s a knee jerk reaction to not defend shitlibs it’s not a great sign for anybody that “Uhhhh hey Mr cheeto? … YA FIRED!” Is being labeled as sufficient reason to cancel multiple late night shows that have been going on for decades.
Imagine what they’ll all agree the reasonable solution is to people who think like us.
Yep pretty much. Like nothing of value lost, sure, but the principle of it is fascism 101. It’s absolutely fucked.
A few people have already pointed this out in the replies, here is the quoted bit, then he sets up for a cutaway to the awesome Trump appearance on Fox and Friends where he’s bragging about the new ballroom
Kimmel - “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,”
Like okay, taken in the absolute least charitable way, and Kimmel is saying Robinson is MAGA? But I think a reasonable interpretation is that he’s saying exactly what we witnessed, Republicans scrambling to try to pin Robinson’s identity as … anything other than one of them.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
My gut though says Kimmel and Colbert were targeted not specifically because of how intense their jokes were, but because they’re guys on TV and old people know about them.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
disney is a target of bds anyways, keep pirating that garbage
Pirating Andor is praxis
Or better yet don’t pirate them at all. Hits harder when no one even wants to pirate their shit.
“…The timeslot will be filled by an AI simulacrum of Rob Schneider endlessly repeating ‘I identify as an attack helicopter’ to a laugh-track to appease the fascists”
Gutfeldt isn’t going to appreciate the stiff competition.
Going to need you to go ahead and put the lathe away please
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I don’t really care about Kimmel but if this news made Adam Carolla feel better then I hate it
Why would you italicize each word in the headline individually
“Jimmy” “Kimmel” “Live”
