Disney yanks Kimmel's show following backlash over Charlie Kirk assassination remarks

I'm pretty sure you guys mostly ignore my posts, just snatch a line or so to get enraged about.  Go ahead.

I'll guess that all US Presidents have been lampooned in the media.  Far as we know Trump is the first to make embarrassing public rantings about it.   Phil Hartman's career skyrocketed on his characterizing of Bill Clinton and his infidelity on SNL.   Jay Leno joked endlessly about it.  As far as we know Clinton didn't send in any goons, threaten  NBC. 

A minor celeb hosting on SNL held up a big picture of Reagan, inviting the audience to drop trow and moon the photo.  NBC kept the camera on Reagan's photo (off the audience while they mooned and hooted).  Far as we know neither Reagan nor the FCC flinched. 

Trump is a loose cannon of a different order.  I think his responses to the Kimmel monologue are juvenile, crybaby-ish.  The high road would  have been to say nothing, as did the other presidents.  My take, Trump's responses, bragging or not, are responsible for the FCC and NBC uproar.  Who didn't know, who not living under a rock couldn't predict that Trump would go after Kimmel, as he goes after anyone he believes is even mildly critical of him?

That's my point.  Not that we aren't in the danger Kevin et al speak of.

Granted, I'm a pragmatist, not a pot stirrer.   I won't fall on my sword.  Maybe Kimmel did just that and is satisfied.  But I'd take odds that he is regretting the monologue right now.

Candy

I doubt he regrets it. I try to read your posts but I am having severe vision problems right now and you tend to use longer paragraphs which makes all the text blur together. 

I do understand your post. I guess I don't see why his monologue was deserving of him getting fired in your mind. I just don't see anything there. 

Trump said yesterday that anybody that gave him negative coverage should have their broadcasting license taken away.  So in Trump's mind if somebody accurately reports the inflation rate, the jobs numbers or any other metric that shows Trump's economy is performing poorly they can have their license revoked.

Can a reporter even honestly report numbers like that without fear of having their entire station put out of work? Do you think the big corporations that own these media companies will say yeah publish the new inflation numbers or will they sit on any news that reflects poorly on Trump out of fear they will be put out of business?

I agree with Kevin in that it is a 5 alarm fire even Ted Cruz thinks so.  We don't need hundreds of stations to watch that are all Trump TV.

I don't like to sugarcoat things. Trump is a fascist authoritarian and we are all living in a fascist country. Trump is very much our Hitler and years from now people will look back, just like they do with Hitler, and say I just don't get how anybody voted for such a truly awful human being.  

It is sad that we don't rember the lessons from that war. It is even sadder that if we still had a lot of WWII Veterans alive they would be considered part of a terrorist group as they were the orginal

anti-fascists. 

Yeah, Mark, I'm a student as well as an enthusiast of history, and one of the topics I've studied extensively is how democracy and human rights were taken away by fascist regimes. Whenever I compare our current situation to that of Nazi Germany, somebody always pooh-poohs it, says that it could never happen here, yeeps about "Godwin's Law," and is otherwise dismissive. I was kind of hard on Candy because she used the content of Kimmel's remarks as a "reason" for his removal--a justification, if you will. 

As far as news sources are concerned, our local media here in Oregon aren't kowtowing to Trump. As I mentioned in another thread, we have our own specific issues with the Turd and no one is hesitant to criticize him. If ABC yanks our local affiliate's chain, that station just might become independent. Certainly, ABC has lost respect around here.

I honestly don't think our democracy can be saved, because we don't have enough people who care to defend it. Hopefully, the death of the Turd will help. Not that Cat Eater Vance would necessarily be any improvement.

As you say, he isn't the first late night comedian/host to criticize the regime. In fact, my take is that such criticism has always been their role. Usually, it's fairly gentle and satirical. Kimmel's remarks were pretty low-key and not directly critical of the Orange Fascist. 

I mean, if that gets the Turd up in arms, then as Mark warns, are we going to get accurate reportage of things like inflation rates and jobs numbers? Anything critical of his regime will be censored, so in order to stay alive, networks will do that censoring themselves?

I'm also thinking of Trump taking away NPR's funding. Here at least, but maybe not in Arkie-saw, private donations are making up for the shortfall. 

Trump has to be even more pissed because Colbert just won an Emmy, something Trump couldn't earn or buy.   

Jimmy Kimmel on cancel culture from May 2018. ---  

The best thing about Trump is he just comes out tells everyone he's breaking the law....and then we get to watch his base white wash and sugar coat it somehow.     ABC did not cancel Kimmel.    THe White House did.

Trump threatens to take away licenses of networks and shows

"When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away

“We’re going to continue to hold these broadcasters accountable to the public interest,” FCC Chairman Carr said. “And if broadcasters don’t like that simple solution, they can turn their license in to the FCC.”

  Apparently PJ advocates for the media to lie - figures.

Oh, no, Mark, I didn't mean to imply that I thought Jimmy K is "deserving" of getting fired.  As you said, I tend to run on in my postings, and thanks for pointing that out. 

NO way do I think Kimmel "deserved" what happened.   Bad timing perhaps, any joke related to the shooting. 

As said, people watch late night comedy to be entertained, not informed.  Fine line I'm sure.  

"A wise man is cautious and avoids danger; a fool plunges ahead with great confidence."

                                                                                                                   Proverbs 14:16

Candy

There's nothing more horrible than the Turd saying that any network airing content critical of him should have its license revoked.

Maybe Millerscum can justify that. How about it, you Trump-kissing, worthless little shit?