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

The threat to remove him is what Carr said in the video.

Doing things the easy way or the hard way is indeed a threat. The fact that once Disney caved to the threat Carr's response was that they aren't done yet only confirms that to be the case.

Re-litigate or not doesn't matter. What I said is accurate. I provided the evidence and your quote combined with Carr's subsequent quotes show that to be the case.

 

democracy prevailed... even if a lot of people on here don't seem to appreciate the privilege of having someone on a major tv network be able to criticize political state of things. i feel no shame being dramatic about it either.
cancel culture is voting with your wallets if you must - not with FCC use. if you use FCC, then it's censorship. it's plain and simple.

 

Democracy prevailed? First, the dipshit moron minister of misinformation aka Baghdad Bob OP started his stupid thread by accusing the government of canceling Kimmel, now we have proof that it is not so. Every one of his fake news threads or posts should always come with a disclaimer. You’re too dumb to keep falling for your tribe’s bullshiit.

 

OS is looking for a quote that says:

dear abc,
hi this is brandon carr of the carr. cancel the jimmy kimmel show. or i will take your license away. this is govt censorship because you said something mean about my boss. also no merger approvals for you nextstar and sinclair!
k thanks.


clown behavior.

 

gift link

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/speech-...2?st=AgCShm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Speech Is Still Free, and Sometimes You Get What You Pay For
Trump’s authoritarianism differs only in degree from his predecessors’, and he hasn’t silenced his foes.
By Gerard Baker
Sept. 22, 2025 5:07 pm ET

I was minding my own business in a Manhattan coffee shop last Thursday when a man wearing a Harris-Walz T-shirt began loudly denouncing Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Within minutes a pair of armed masked men charged into the cafe and bundled him into an unmarked vehicle waiting outside while customers tried to avoid catching each other’s eyes.

In other news that didn’t happen last week: The New York Times published a 90,000-word special, “The 2024 Project: A New Origin Story,” an original take on American history that argues persuasively that the nation’s revival after a long period of decline can be traced to last year’s presidential election. It is a strong candidate for the Pulitzer Prize, with publishing houses racing each other to buy the book rights. On Broadway another in a string of new shows that capture the essential dystopia of modern American life opened to rave reviews. Though the plotlines differ, the musicals all tell similarly heartrending stories of the networks of oppression that native-born white working-class heterosexual American males have faced for decades at the hands of immigrants, highly educated women and LGBTQ elites. And students at Harvard turned up in record numbers for a compulsory new core curriculum class spellbindingly delivered by Prof. Steve Bannon, new dean of the Kennedy School of Government called Gramsci, Metapolitics, Donald and Me: Political Philosophy 101.

I am making light, perhaps too light, of the panic about free speech. I don’t doubt—and I don’t like—the president’s authoritarian instincts. Like the rest of the dwindling band of conservatives who still cherish limited government, individual freedom and the Constitution, I am queasy at the spectacle of a federal regulator threatening broadcasters with unspecified punishments over the “news distortion” represented by the imbecilic monologue of a washed-up late-night talk-show host.

But can we get a little perspective? The First Amendment hasn’t been rescinded. A casual glance at the state of journalistic, artistic and wider cultural expression doesn’t reveal a nation of involuntarily submissive citizens cowering in fear at the prospect of being regulated, silenced, canceled or criminalized for their speech. The leading practitioners of our freedoms—prominent thinkers, speakers, teachers, actors and entertainers—remain almost monolithically hostile to the national political authority.

Executive overreach isn’t new. The intensity with which successive American presidents have tried to control what is said or written has ebbed and flowed with their circumstances and personalities. Mr. Trump is undoubtedly at the more illiberal end of that spectrum and can be expected to push harder in troubled times at the borders of our freedoms.

But he isn’t the first. From Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, presidents have waded into our precious freedoms with brio, lawsuits and regulatory fiat.

Last week’s intervention by Chairman Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission was crude and probably unnecessary. Broadcasters have belatedly realized, in the face of slumping audiences, that allowing an ideologically uniform group of producers, journalists and entertainers to pour daily contempt on the views of the supporters of at least half the country’s population isn’t the most reliable way of helping them out of their existentially challenged business models. Mr. Carr’s threat might well have been deemed unconstitutional too, if Disney had decided to challenge the threat of regulatory sanctions they implied rather than hiding behind it to rid itself of a turbulent priest. It’s hard to claim censorship when you’ve taken the “easy way,” as Mr. Carr helpfully called it.

Ah, but it’s early days, some will object. The volley of lawsuits, threats and regulatory measures coming from the Trump administration has already chilled the climate of speech. It will get worse.

I don’t see it. The output of much of our media remains resolutely antithetical to everything Mr. Trump and his supporters believe, and the diversity of platforms so great that any serious attempt to control it is doomed to fail. If we are seriously expected to believe that ABC is now about to become a vehicle for Trumpian propaganda, do we think that’s the final word? Have you heard of social media or the internet?

The ultimate irony is that our traditional culture has become so neutered in its impact on the national consciousness that Mr. Trump’s attempts to shape it are unnecessary. His support comes in large part from millions of Americans who already recognize and are furious with how biased and twisted it is. Not having Jimmy Kimmel to kick around any more would probably be a net loss for a populist president.

Some years ago, historically minded Americans were asking “are we Rome?”—a civilization in terminal decline. Now the question seems to be “are we Weimar?”—a failing republic in the throes of conversion to totalitarianism. My answer to both: only if we want to be.

Appeared in the September 23, 2025, print edition as 'Speech Is Still Free, and Sometimes You Get What You Pay For'.

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lol...

 

Kimmel getting reinstated didn't even make the top of my Google News feed. Interesting.

 

Nexstar has joined Sinclair saying they won't air the re-booted Kimmel show tonight. I will reiterate that it is my belief this has more to do with their anger at Kimmel's remarks about the Kirk shooter being MAGA than it is about Brendan Carr's "threats" to affiliate stations.

Local TV Giants Boycott Jimmy Kimmel’s Return to Late Night
Together, the two TV station groups control more than 20 percent of ABC’s local affiliates. They won’t be airing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-nexstar-sinclair-boycott.html

excerpt:

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show is returning to ABC on Tuesday night after a tense standoff following his remarks about the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But about a quarter of the ABC stations in the United States won’t be airing it.

Nexstar, a major owner of local ABC stations, said on Tuesday morning that it would pre-empt Mr. Kimmel’s show indefinitely. Sinclair, another owner of local affiliates, said the same on Monday evening, hours after Disney announced “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return, saying it would replace the show with news programming, pending further “discussions with ABC.”

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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fixed it for you

 

He didn't say that.

 

Yup. constantly moving goal posts to support their savior in the office.

 

people canceling subscriptions.

violence. OH NOS.

someone please think of the children.

stop being a r****d.

 

dummies paid money to buy something to blow it up.

people canceling disney to save money.

even when they are protesting, they are not very smart.