Kimmel out... leftists big mad (09-18-2025--Hour2)

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And so this story about Jimmy Kimmel is a welcome pivot that they have been looking for so they can deflect attention from the awkward story in the news cycle that they cannot muster an adequate response to They have been completely unable to meet the moment required of them, and so this is now going to be their opportunity to try to assert themselves as the morally superior people. And ah, free speech. Oh my gosh, I can't believe he's being silenced in all of this. So, according to The New York Post, Jimmy Kimmel is quote absolutely bleeping livid over ABC's decision to acts his his late night talk show following backlash to his remarks over Charlie Kirk's assassination. While President Trump cheered the move as great news for America. Now, I don't know if they actually axed the show. And I'm using the word ax as like definitionally it means. I'm not using it as like a surrogate word for ask, because that's a whole different word. So I'm saying ax X, not ask. They're different words. Okay, So I thought they just put him on an indefinite suspension, which kind of sounds almost like you've been fired, but trust me, it's not. You haven't been fired with an indefinite suspension. And there was a report let me see if I can pull it up here. Please forgive me, because I am on remote and so I am technologically impaired to a certain degree, so I cannot provide these aimless, flawless broadcasting segues and such that I am accustomed to and you are accustomed to as well. Yeah, no, I don't have it. But it was a it was a blurb that I saw and that's the technical name for it from the Hollywood Reporter. Wait a minute, did I print it out? No? I did not print it out. The Hollywood Reporter publication that said he and I'm going from memory here, but I'll confirm during the break that he was not going to apologize for lying on his show on Monday Night, because that's that's what started all of this, was he lied on his show on Monday Night during his monologue about the shooter's motives, and he called the shooter a maga guy. And that's not true. And in fact, we knew that wasn't true when Kimmel made those remarks, right, And so according to the Hollywood Reporter, they said that he was not going to apologize, but he would simply go out and offer context or something, and that appears to be why they had put him on suspension. In addition too, and I think this is actually more important, which was that you had the affiliates all around the country, the two big ones. Oh, I do have it here, Ah, look at that here it is. A source tells The Hollywood Reporter that Kimmel was prepared to address the backlash on Wednesday night's show. He planned to explain what he said and demonstrate how it was taken out of context. When asked by The Hollywood Reporter, the source said that Kimmel was not planning on apologizing. He felt that what he said did not require an apology. Okay, so there's that. That's the Hollywood Reporter. Now, what he said was not taken out of context. The language was very clear, although it's not clear to a lot of our friends on the left and in the media. But again I repeat myself to the this is Dylan Byers, the founder of Puck News. That's with a p people, that's with a p okay to the news outlets stating that Jimmy Kimmel suggested the suspect was a mega Republican suggested he did not suggest anything. Dylan Byers says to them, saying that Kimmel suggested the suspect was a Maga Republican. I strongly encourage you to watch the actual clip and see if you still think that's the case. Well, I have watched the clip, and here's the transcript of what he said. What Kimmel said, quote. 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. That is factually not true. He is not a quote Mega Gang one of them members. We knew this on Monday. Kimmel and his writers should have known it, and the fact that he would not apologize but thought, oh well, I'll just come out and just, you know, give an explanation to explain what I said, and demonstrated how it's being taken out of context. It's not being taken out of context. It's very clear what you said. You're saying that he was a Maga guy, that a Maga guy killed Charlie Kirk, and everybody in Maga. I can tell you everyone in Maga did not think that it was one of them that did this. John Gabriel, a writer, says, I just feel terrible for the left because apparently murdering Charlie Kirk is not going well for them. Yeah, I'm sorry, that was the wrong Hang on, there you go. Now. I have been informed that Russ, who gave me this rimshot machine, also has an applause button on it, but he says it is it's less than it's less than optimal. It's kind of underwhelming, but it may provide like an extra one to two percent humor to the jokes now, mainly because it is so underwhelming. I don't know. I haven't run the numbers on that, but it sounds right. Apparently, Jimmy Kimmel is also reportedly p oed. He's very mad, and he is meeting with the network. I heard Vince Cokeley reporting also on his show that some breaking news was that Kimmel is trying to now find a way out of his contract to break to finally, you know, break bonds with ABC. This is the final straw. I'm not doing this anymore. And one producer told The Daily Mail this is clearly the government overreaching. There's no such thing as free speech in America, if the government can lean on companies to stop any content they don't like. 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You've got these companies that own local TV stations, and the big ones are Next Star Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting. And if the name Sinclair rings a bell, it's probably because they've been attacked for years by the left. Remember they were the ones that put out. They started doing nightly opinion reads opinion pieces where the hosts would read something from Sinclair Broadcasting, and this then prompted outrage because Sinclair's ownership is apparently not of the left. So these two media companies said, look, we cannot keep selling this product, which is not doing very well in the ratings now is being the advertisers on our local stations don't want to be associated with this content, and so we're not going to carry the show anymore. And they have every right to do that. By the way, the local affiliates have every right to do that. And you may not like that, but if you don't like it, what was it that the left told us, start your own social media company, then, right, that's what they said when conservatives were complaining for years about being deplatformed, having their content throttled, getting kicked off of social media sites, and the left kept telling us, that's just the free market, you free market proponents, that's just the free market. If you don't like it, start your own Twitter, start your own Facebook. So some conservatives, you'll recall, actually did do that very thing. They started gab, they started parlor, they started locals, they started Rumble, and then what did the left do well? They then targeted through the administration. They then targeted I think gab has been completely collapsed because they they had Amazon take them off of the off of the internet, I mean talk about the platform, and they just nuked the whole site. I think it was or maybe yet, I don't know which one still around. They led which hunts against anybody who donated to gab as part of their Kickstarter campaign to fundraise to get them capital to start it up, and they pitched themselves as a free speech platform alternative to Twitter. This is obviously way before Elon Musk bought it. And you'll recall our own local congressman Dan Bishop gave like I think he donated five hundred dollars or something to the kickstarter campaign, and then that was used against Dan Bishop saying he fund did a Nazi propaganda social media side or something like that because he donated before the site ever launched. He donated to help raise money for an alternative to Twitter, which is exactly what you told us we needed to do because you kept banning people on Twitter, and you did it through these government agencies and NGOs that said they were in the business of quote, fighting disinformation and disinformation is anything we don't agree with, is anything against the COVID shots is like all of these things. You guys have been engaged in this behavior for a decade at least at least and now you're mad at cancel culture. Now you're mad that a cancel campaign has come for Jimmy Kimmel, who was apparently like the worst of the hosts in Late Night. I never watched his show, so I guess I'm among the vast majority of Americans there never watched his program. He was I think third in the ratings, behind a guy who's already been told his contract is not going to be renewed and they're going to blow up the whole show altogether. And we talked about this with Stephen Colbert when they announced he was when they were going to cancel that show and leave him on the air through what May of next year or something that time slot for television for broadcast network TV. It has been declining in viewership. People don't watch the product any longer. It doesn't serve the purpose. You know what the purpose originally was was for people to fall asleep watching that show and then wake up the next morning, and the TV would already be on that channel, so you would watch the morning shows. That was the idea is you have the show last people put it on as they go to bed, read a book or whatever, and they have it on and then they fall asleep, and then they wake up and they watch your channel the next morning as well, and it builds that loyalty to your brand. Same thing with WBT. There are people that don't even know, Oh, there's another station on the dial besides WBT, and that's the way we like it. By the way, don't change that dial. Right. Why do we say that in the broadcast world because we want you to listen to the station or watch the TV station all day. So this gets into the so I went over the affiliate model. They have every right to say we don't want to carry this content because our local community standards are not being met. 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So this is at the New York Post piece by Anna Young, but she's quoting a Daily Mail story that's relying on a source who says about Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert or Colbert, they both don't want Trump to win in any way or fashion at all. And this has let an extreme fire under Jimmy's butt to continue to tell it like it is and be real to himself. And now Colbert is looking to have Jimmy come on his show at some point. Yeah, that'll be fun to watch. The FCC chairman Brendan Carr. He said, this action by Next Star and Sinclair is unprecedented. He says, I can't imagine another time when we've had local broadcasters tell a national programmer like Disney that your content no longer meets the needs and the values of our community. So this is an important turning point. He blasted late night shows for becoming court clerics who enforced quote very narrow political ideology. There's more work to go, but I'm very glad to see that American broadcasters are standing up to serve the interests of their community. And we don't just have this progressive fois gras coming out from New York and Hollywood. Okay, so, and thank you. Somebody sent me on Twitter a post of some of the cancelations that the left celebrated, like Roseanne Barr fired by ABC Disney from her hit TV show after a tweet. Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian TV show for social media posts that we're not in line with the left's policies, Megan Kelly fired by NBA. Dave Chappelle, Netflix employee staged to walk out demanding his comedy special be pulled for transphobia. Joe Rogan, remember the left pressured Spotify to drop him, Tucker Carlson, Parlor, jk Rowling, Mike Lindell, Alex Jones. Right, So the left has been doing this for a long time and now they are reaping what they have sown. There is actually a law, not sure people are aware of this, or a rule, an FCC rule, and it prohibits broadcast licensees or permittees from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe. If number one, the licensee knows this information is false, Two it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will cause substantial public harm, and three broadcast of the information does in fact directly cause substantial public harm. Those are the rules you agree to when you get an FCC license in exchange for your monopoly, because that's what that is, a monopoly. We have a monopoly on eleven ten am, the frequency, We have a monopoly on that property. That's what we trade in exchange for the rules that the FCC lays out. The same thing goes for television broadcast companies. Here is Ed Morrissey, who is a Ham radio guy, so he knows all about this stuff. And so I'm gonna get a little technical here, but it's important because the FCC issues license licenses for broadcasters pursuing too the Communications Actor of nineteen thirty four, as well as other legislation, those whose signal goes out over the public airwaves. So that's different. The FCC does not have jurisdiction over cable channels like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, right, doesn't have any purview over newspapers or the internet publications. Right, it's just television and radio. So why does Congress give this power to the FCC and why does it allow the FCC to terminate licenses for content or actions they consider to be not in the public interest. So to understand that, Ed Morrissey lays out what he says is the nature of the broadcasting industry, and you got to go way back to the early days of radio when there was WBT and virtually nobody else. And what happened was other stations would come along, operators would come along, they would get a stick, and they would start broadcasting. But because WBT is so powerful, we would drown out all of the other signals in the area. If you were close to eleven ten am on the band, people couldn't hear you, and our signal would go like halfway across the country, all the way up the east coast. So anybody on eleven ten or eleven hundred or eleven twenty or whatever, if you're close to us, we're just eating your signal. So they were like, Okay, how do we stop this from happening? Right? How do we stop a station like BT from ramping up power? Because we're fifty thousand watts, we are massive. We are a blowtorch, as they say in the industry. So how do they stop other smaller stations or other stations that are almost as powerful as us from having their signal degraded by ours stepping on theirs? Because we could ramp up power and just put everybody else out of business, and that was what the government was trying to stop from happening. Congress then put an end to that by declaring the commercial broadcast spectrums to be a federal jurisdiction and that the airwaves are public property. To ensure the proper operation of commercial broadcast spectrums, Congress gave the FCC the power to grant and enforce, as I said, monopolies on specific frequencies in a local market. The FCC also regulates and restricts power output to ensure there's no overlap between broadcast areas for legitimate licensees. So that's what a broadcast license is. It is the grant of a monopoly on a specific channel in a local area to one entity to the exclusion of all others. That's what it is. Okay. So, in exchange for the FCC enforcing that monopoly stations agree to operate their stations in the public interest. What is that defined as well? That's defined by what the FCC says. And so when we have our license renewal that comes up, we go to the FCC, there are public hearings and stuff, and we explain here are all the things that we do to provide a public interest, a community service, all like we're out here at this blood drive because the point of the local broadcast is to provide a community service, a public good. That's why we're here. That's why we do what we do. That's why we do news and traffic and weather and all of this stuff. That's the trade off. And if you have a product that is no longer serving a community's interest, and the community is telling you that through their affiliate that is carrying your content, then Yeah, you lose the market and you could actually lose your FCC protection. All Right, you hear me talk a lot about incentives, right, Well, let's talk about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer employees to fire them up and reward their teams. 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Beckett Adams is a columnist at The Hill and National Review, the DC Examiner, and reacting to the Jimmy Kimmel news he says, Oh my gosh, if if this is the thing that leads the left to finally retire those autistic handmade costumes, it'll all have been worth it, not, right, Yeah, because they're trying to cancel Disney and Hulu. I cancel them all. Well, that means you can't wear your handmaid's tail costume anymore, right, So yeah, I guess that would be worth it. Going back to this piece by Ed Morrissey at hot air dot com, he says, the NCC has mainly let its foot ease off of the pedal in recent years, and that's because most of the offensive material that they would normally police has actually moved over to cable and the Internet. The irony of this is that the FCC has largely stood down while the Biden administration essentially created its own Offcom, which is the British censorship regulatory body. Except Offcom, they've got jurisdiction over not just TV and radio, but newspapers, Internet stuff like it. Like that's a massive operation over in Britain, so the you know, the FCCA doesn't have a whole lot to police anymore because again, offensive material migrated away from broadcast television. But at the same time, you had the Biden administration, through the State Department Health and Human Services, right, all these NGOs funding quote misinformation policing which targeted the online and cable channel markets. The federal government created censorship regimes on platforms where they had absolutely no jurisdiction. Meanwhile, they allowed broadcasters to exploit government provided monopolies with carte blanche on blatantly false content with clear partisan and malicious intent. And you may think, if you are of the left, you may think that everything Jimmy Kimmel says is correct, but half the country disagrees with you, and you may think, well, they're just not living in reality. Well, and they think the same thing about you. Right therein lies, therein lies the problem. You're saying things are disinformation, like oh my gosh, if you take the shot you might get myocarditis. That's such a lie. You're saying these things and those are lies, and then oops, you turned out to not be correct. Right, Like there are people who have had these harms from those shots, you said Donald Trump was an asset of Russia and putin ined with the election in order to specifically help Trump win. Oops, not true either. Now that we've got all of the divulging of all of these documents, turns out, yeah, that wasn't true either. You guys have been spreading the disinformation while telling everybody that you were right and they were wrong, and it turned out it was completely the opposite. Now, you can argue that the FCC really should use a more laissez faire approach to enforcing the public interest clause in their rules. However, you cannot argue that the authority does not exist and that it hasn't been enforced in the past, because the public interest clause does in fact exist and it has in fact been used in the past. And you cannot argue that after the last few years a big brother tech censorship, that Jimmy Kimmel is some sort of an anomaly. Kimmel's harangue was precisely the kind of beach that the State Department and HHS kept shutting down via its Global Engagement Center, or as I always called it, the GEK. The GEC, along with its partnerships with activist quote unquote monitors like NewsGuard and not just on media organizations, but on Facebook users and Twitter users alike. And we weren't using a government provided broadcast monopoly as a speech platform either. Okay, you guys use the government to censor people that disagreed with you, and they didn't have government protection for a monopoly product. And that's what the FCC is there to do, is to protect those monopoly products on the bandwidth in the local market. So here's the thing. Disney and all these other companies BT as well need the FCC to enforce these monopolies that it grants in order for their broadcast stations to operate. If the FCC decided to stop enforcing its authority, we would have pirate operators that would start interfering with the over the year connections to viewers and listeners. And that means lost revenue in a business, particularly the late night slot with a diminishing profit margin. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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