Lynnch said:

Crushing more and more people under an authoritarian boot won't fix it. As state violence increases, so will the random acts of violence from those who see no other options. It's a nasty cycle when we see violence as the only solution to violence.

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The dramatic move follows Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr threatening to take action against ABC affiliates in the wake of Kimmel suggesting Kirk shooting suspect was a MAGA Republican during his Tuesday monologue.

Then on Wednesday, Carr went on a podcast where he slammed Kimmel and declared that affiliates should “push back” on ABC and say, in effect, “Listen, we’re not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out because we’re running the possibility of license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion.”

Nexstar issued a statement late Wednesday they would not air tonight’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live and would pre-empt the show for the foreseeable future.


“[This] appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into the narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or Republican-motivated person,” Carr said. “What people don’t understand is that the broadcasters … have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. When we see stuff like this, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

Johnson said he’d like to see an apology from Kimmel to Kirk and his family and asked Carr what other punitive steps the FCC might take.

“I think what you said strikes me as a very reasonable, minimal step that can be taken,” Carr said. “Calls for Kimmel to be fired — I think, you could certainly see a path forward for a suspension over this. You know, the FCC is going to have remedies.”

Carr then ran down some of the media earthquakes that have transpired under the second Trump administration, from Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show being canceled next year, to NPR and PBS being defunded, to CBS News taking steps to be more “fact based.”

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lifeiswhatyoumake said:

USA is deep in fascism.

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lifeiswhatyoumake said:

USA is deep in fascism.

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feevers said:

Lots of people do. That has nothing to do with fascism

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feevers said:

https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk-a2bfa904429c318fe52e7d3493c6883d

Jimmy Kimmel got suspended due to pressure from the trump admin

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Wow it's like trump admires people like Kim Jong Un or something