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senseandsensibility

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Wed Sep 17, 2025, 06:49 PM Sep 2025

Kimmel off the air indefinitely [View all]

According to NBC news. His show is going to be pre-empted. This is because of the complaint from the FCC. Knew this would happen. Very sad day for ABC.

Ari is covering this (I am watching on a delay), so I am sure that it will be covered on MSNBC at the top of the hour. Well, I guess I was wrong about MSNBC. But Erin Burnett is leading with this story and is being very critical. Brian Stelter said this really does have a chilling effect across the country. One of the media analysts on CNN just said that the decision was so abrupt that there was probably an audience in the studio and the show was ready to be taped.

AND the hubby just reminded me that ABC is pre-empting Kimmel so he can't "let loose" like Colbert is still able to do.

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Kimmel off the air indefinitely [View all] senseandsensibility Sep 2025 OP
feckin' cilla4progress Sep 2025 #1
He didn't even say anything critical of Kirk from what I read senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #3
When you are opposed to an authoritarian markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #28
Get ready for the dismissal of popsdenver Sep 2025 #53
To be replaced with documentaries on the life of markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #56
That was fast lame54 Sep 2025 #2
Trump was saying something was going to happen to Kimmel a few weeks ago. TheBlackAdder Sep 2025 #41
Free speech for thee..... IcyPeas Sep 2025 #4
Trump can say anything and commit any crime in the world. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #23
The goons complaining about cancel culture are putting a boot on our throat SamuelTheThird Sep 2025 #5
And yet Faux continues Brian Kilmeade Maeve Sep 2025 #6
Yep, the one who actually said bad stuff is still there mvd Sep 2025 #13
Toe that line ABC. herding cats Sep 2025 #7
This has got to be stopped mvd Sep 2025 #8
So, if Kimmel said the guy was a Lefty, nothing would have happened? spanone Sep 2025 #9
Pretty much senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #14
Trmp called him a radical lefty before ANYTHING was known. spanone Sep 2025 #18
Sad day for our Freedom of Speech...and our Country. spanone Sep 2025 #19
ABC chickens out . . . . .again. Sneederbunk Sep 2025 #10
Threats from FCC Chair Brendan Carr did this. Frasier Balzov Sep 2025 #11
Yes he started it newdeal2 Sep 2025 #34
Free Speech is dead in America - full stop. walkingman Sep 2025 #12
He'll Be Back MrWowWow Sep 2025 #15
We are under a full-blown dictatorship. dalton99a Sep 2025 #16
Authoritarian Dictatorship Quiet Em Sep 2025 #17
Unsanctioned opnions about the party and its methods are being dealt with quickly these days Torchlight Sep 2025 #20
We are witnessing the end of our democracy, rule of law, and Bill of Rights in real time. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #21
Could not agree more Grim Chieftain Sep 2025 #48
It's like the movie the Body Snatchers. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #49
Dealing with Reich wing snowflakes is tiresome OrlandoDem2 Sep 2025 #22
HERE IS WHAT HE SAID: IcyPeas Sep 2025 #24
Erin Burnett's show is covering this very well senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #25
I bet Colbert will have Kimmel on his show. Nt Fiendish Thingy Sep 2025 #26
so now LyfeTimeDem Sep 2025 #27
This orangecrush Sep 2025 #54
This is their opening to crush the opposition newdeal2 Sep 2025 #29
I am so f---ing angry. I love Jimmy Kimmel. WTF. skylucy Sep 2025 #30
This is a sad day for fucking FREE speech in the USA. What the hell is happening in this country? beaglelover Sep 2025 #31
Brendan Carr the FCC head actually said senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #32
Nazi stormtroopers dictating who we can watch. Emile Sep 2025 #33
Disney owns ABC Starbeach Sep 2025 #35
FAWK, FAWK, FAWK, FAWK! FAWK!!!!!!!!! a kennedy Sep 2025 #36
This is crazy LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #37
Sue, KIMMEL, SUE - if SCotUS can't uphold the Constitution it's over UTUSN Sep 2025 #38
Sue who, on what grounds? MichMan Sep 2025 #45
They'll be going after David Muir next. Emile Sep 2025 #39
Fascists. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #40
Rep. Robert Garcia senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #42
From the con artist Authoritarian Dictator wannabe in July Quiet Em Sep 2025 #43
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #44
Well, we see the result of getting really fucked over when we couldn't enough votes to convict him after impeachment. RoeVWade Sep 2025 #46
The country has gone batshit crazy, this is worse than what happened after 9/11 with silencing people. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 2025 #47
Chris Hayes is doing a segment on it now. Amaryllis Sep 2025 #50
Yes, the first half of his show senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #51
He dared mention it was tribal warfare underpants Sep 2025 #52
Hit them back where it hurts the most. B.See Sep 2025 #55
ABC WAS my news station of choice. Norrrm Sep 2025 #57
There are no comedians on the Right. None. Trump is an unspeakably humorless dead soul. ancianita Sep 2025 #58
I wonder what they'll say on "The View" about this dflprincess Sep 2025 #59
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