For what protected speech is, look up the Brandenberg Test, aka the can't yell fire in a theater case

From a free speech standpoint, cheering for the demise of an opposing voice is as bad as cheering for the death of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was murdered because of his positions and what he said. Neither voice should be stifled in a free society.

The FCC clearly leaned on ABC--FCC Chair Brendan Carr bragged about it.

And, this is just the beginning. Most of you and your leaders cannot be trusted on anything concerning the Constitution.

Freedom of speech without morals is as salvation without repentance. Maybe that is why the Constitution only works for a religious and moral people.

Nobody is celebrating Kimmel being fired. Kimmel wore out his welcome. We sports officiala have a saying, "we didn't eject a player/coach, they ejected themselves". What is being celebrated is that the country seems to be coming to it's senses.

Kimmel is irrelevant. The teachers and people in government being ousted for this is the only way this country will survive. These people can't be allowed to spread their poison to our children.

FCC was really a non factor. 2 of the biggest owners of ABC stations wanted him out.

Fine by me....

I'll cheer if PETA gets run outta business, same for the anti-gun groups.

Most of our leaders are or were former lawyers. What do you do for a living again?

ol' dad

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Kimmel's ratings were not good. ABC was probably thinking of pulling the plug on him anyway. This was a perfect opportunity. Also, ABC got a lot of flack from some of their sponsors for Kimmel's remarks. When someone's actions have the potential to hurt your business financially, you should have the right to terminate them. That's good business sense.

To make the dumb statement that Trump only chastises those who didn't vote for him is ridiculous. In MN with the shooting of the legislators by that maniac, Trump was very vocal condemning the shooter who was a registered republican.

Yep,
Local broadcasters, especially the ones serving rural areas weren't going to air him even if ABC kept him. Couldn't sell advertising during his timeslot.

That was weird." Nobody is celebrating." People were/are celebrating right here. Poor guy is unemployed. I almost feel sorry for jimmy.

No sense lying about it Dirt, he said nothing good.

Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group each decided to pull Kimmel’s show from their affiliate stations across the US. Disney, the owner of ABC, subsequently pulled Kimmel off the air entirely. These were corporate decisions from 3 distinct media conglomerates. These were not government decisions in any sense of the word. Nexstar, Sinclair, and Disney simply made sound business decisions -- constitutional as all heck.

Unlike the Biden administration, the Trump administration has not sent FBI agents into a privately held company (Twitter) to covertly “influence” content decisions, aka government censorship -- unconstitutional as all heck. And don’t forget, Twitter banned President Trump from its platform, and the Left was falling all over itself claiming the 1st Amendment didn’t apply because Twitter was a private company and it could do whatever it wanted. That was true then and now.

Finally, under the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC is required to approve or deny any transfer of telecommunications licenses or corporate control. Their role here is to assess whether such transactions serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity."

If the FCC determines that a merger or set of acquisitions does not serve the public interest, convenience or necessity, they can legally deny the transaction as well as pull broadcast licenses because they have regulatory powers on what is broadcasted over the publicly owned airwaves; they do not have those same regulatory powers over cable television like HBO because they are not publicly owned airwaves. In other words, the FCC’s decision making powers under the Communications Act of 1934 is HUGELY constitutional.

Unemployed? The man has a net worth of 50 million.

Who was it that tried to install the Ministry of Truth into the government come on now be honest. Who decided he would push student loan forgiveness programs after the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional, Lawfare ignored every basic law procedure but you folks ignored it just 3 of many samples of the abuse of the constitution.
The constitution, God, rule of law, US citizens only matter when it can be used as a weapon if not it’s ignored. Spare us the lies.

The good news is they will probably replace him with somebody worse.

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Out of work, especially involuntarily; jobless."


You are welcome!

Late night shows are dead. They are completely getting rid of Colbert's show. I can't imagine ABC bringing in a new host. Show will be entirely replaced.

I thought cancel culture was bad. lol

Jimmy flat out lied and distorted the facts to fit the narrative he supported there no comedy, no monologue but what said was a statement he chose to put out there. It was done after other facts were given by the officials doing the investigation that were totally the opposite to Jimmy's statements he dug that hole himself.

Only when it’s used against the ones that invented it it looks like. If you’re being fair in an unfair fight you’ll probably lose that fight.

Not when it goes against common sense...