[State Sponsored Cancel Culture] Disney cancels the Jimmy Kimmel Show after government pressure

I may not watch his show or anything, but it isn't right to suspend him over what was said so easily. Most likely his show was going to get axed anyways, and this just gave them a reason to end it.

 

This is the exact quote I found online: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

You are softening what was actually said quite a bit. He specifically called out action to be taken on Kimmel and said “there’s going to be” consequences, not just “might be”. Now, I suppose what is meant by “additional work” is open to interpretation and maybe that’s what you mean by it not being explicit. I understood it as a pretty clear-cut threat.

 

in the absence of the transcript, and therefore relying only on second-hand reporting . . . when Carr said, "We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way," what does the "easy way" mean, and what does the "hard way" mean?

Is the easy way code for: "we will revoke your station licenses"; versus the hard way meaning something more like "we will blow up ABC headquarters with a missile like we do those narcoboats in the Caribbean"?

Or does "easy way" and "hard way" mean something else?

 

Found the link in my Apple Podcasts app:

 

that is what I have seen also. But I would be very, very interested to see the entire interview and/or transcript to situate that quote in context. When he says "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," what does "this" refer to? Without knowing the antecedent to the pronoun "this," I personally am lacking a full understanding of the context of Carr's remarks. And I still do not believe this was a not-so-thinly-veiled threat of "Unless you fire Kimmel, I am coming after you and I will destroy you."

 

thanks, I'm not seeing the link but that may be a pop up issue on my part

 

Right you are thinking this 12 ways to Sunday is my point. You are selectively thoughtful, defensive, etc to an overt degree, imo.


Occam's razor to me, the president flat out said he hoped he had a lot to do with it, and there is an obvious mechanism for the administration to have that impact with given the merger.

But maybe that's just my bias.

 

Yeah, same for me. I added a space into the url so you can see the address. The board software is converting it, don’t know how to stop that.

https:// podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kash-patel-testifying-live-now-on-charlie-kirk-assassin/id1584730781?i=1000727236632

 

hey look, I don't even care about Jimmy Kimmel. Honestly this is not a hill I'm gonna die on. But it just strikes me as funny that the network dealt with their "problem" an hour or two after that podcast by putting a leash on Jimmy Kimmel. And now we've got everybody talking about Jimmy Kimmel instead of the Epstein files.

 

super helpful. I really appreciate that, seriously. Too much knee jerk negativity here these days, I really would like to listen to the section of the interview that started this whole thing. thanks.

 

and with luck you can get a transcript online:

https://fight.fudgie.org/search/show/bj/episode/20250917_Wed_v6wvyl4#speaker-7371-5349

Carr starts at 1:29:09

 

Beyond parody. We're gonna need a new word.

 

Im with you I couldn’t care less about Kimmel myself, I really think the late shows, short of Conans, suck.

I am disturbed by the condition of freedom of speech right now, as well as the authoritarianism being shown by state and federal government.

 

well, I've just started listening to the Carr interview and reading along in the transcript. So far I'm not sure I'm seeing it (the censorship drum that folks are banging on). What I'm seeing and hearing is Carr banging on the "public interest" drum, and making a distinction between the public broadcasting networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC) who have a public interest responsibility--versus other media companies that are not held to that standard. While Kimmel is there and being discussed, I'm not seeing the direct threat to Kimmel and/or to ABC. But I'll have to think on it some more. And I'm not done with the Carr section

 

I think this is the relevant section that gets to the heart of what Carr is trying to say:

 

and here is the section that I assume people are saying constitutes a "threat":

 

Maybe now he will go back to being Ben Stein's sidekick on the "Win Ben Stein's Money" gameshow.