Vrede too wrote: ↑Sun Sep 21, 2025 8:43 pm
Barack Obama ...
Republicans Against Trump ...
Pete Buttigieg ...
Good, broadcasters will have to figure in lefty revulsion before bending the knee. With a couple of exceptions like Bud Light we've always been better at boycotts. How were those Disneyworld boycotts going, Fascist DerSantis fanboys? You might have help now.
Zohran Mamdani Boycotts ABC’s Town Hall Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani will not be participating in a Town Hall event with WABC this week due to the parent company’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show.
“We cannot understand this moment of authoritarianism as solely coming from the White House, when it is also characterized by the cowardice of those in response to it — the cowardice that we have seen typified whether by the parent company of ABC or by so-called leaders like Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams looking to the White House for their path to their future ambition. I am running to be the next mayor of the city to finally make clear what it looks like to stand up, not just for this city, but also for the Constitution,” Mamdani said at an event in New York Monday....
Bravo.
‘The View’ Addresses Jimmy Kimmel Suspension — and Why the Show Didn’t Discuss It Sooner
400 Celebs Sign Open Letter Backing Jimmy Kimmel, Including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Aniston
ABC/Disney:
Wait, we pissed off thousands of subscribers, Wall Street, Barack, Pete, NYC's next mayor, the women of ‘The View’, hundreds of celebs, Jennifer Aniston AND GoCubsGo? Oh crap.
Aside: I'll bet that 1994 GoCubsGo never thought that he'd appear in the same sentence as Jennifer Aniston.
Jimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show’s Controversial Suspension
I thought for sure he'd never be back.
... The ABC late-night host is returning to broadcast on Tuesday following a brief-but-monumental suspension that sparked a national debate over the Trump Administration’s pressure tactics and the modern limits and consequences of free speech.
Dementia Don is a LOSER, again. FFC chair Brendan Carr, too.
... Behind the scenes, sources says Kimmel wasn’t planning to apologize on that night’s show and instead was going to defend his original comments as being taken out of context and “grossly mischaracterized” by MAGA, which Disney brass thought would only inflame the situation. Disney/ABC then announced Jimmy Kimmel Live! was “suspended indefinitely.” On Thursday, a follow-up meeting between Kimmel and Disney execs reportedly ended in a stalemate with Kimmel sticking to his stated plan of unapologetically defending himself.
Hero.
Despite Kimmel’s return, it is not immediately clear if his show will be available across the entire country. Sinclair, for its part, had said that it would not go back to running Kimmel’s show on its stations until the late night host apologized for his comments, met with Sinclair representatives, and made a donation to Turning Point, the organization that Kirk founded. Sinclair, it should be noted, owns the ABC station in the Washington D.C. metro area, among other markets.
WLOS is Sinclair. Here's my note to WLOS and Sinclair:
Back to the article:
Nexstar, similarly, could also choose to continue to preempt the show, though of course it wiould still be accessible online across the country after it runs on ABC.
The suspension drew quick praise from President Trump and some vocal right-wing “FAFO” Kimmel critics online, but few others.
Instead, it sparked a massive outpouring of criticism of Disney, Nexstar and Sinclair for caving to pressure. Media pundits, politicians, Hollywood unions, celebrities, other talk show hosts, and even some Republican leaders (such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul) condemned the series of the events as a dangerous step toward networks becoming state-run media, with many framing it as a potential “tipping point” moment if Disney didn’t reverse its decision. Some people online pledged to unsubscribe and boycott Disney subsidiaries such as Disney+ and Hulu.
GoCubsGo most prominent among them
. Hey MAGA fascists, YOU FAFO.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...
Ben Stiller ...
Jamie Lee Curtis (screamed) ...
Jean Smart ...
Marc Maron ...
Hollywood unions — including SAG-AFTRA and the WGA — slammed the decision. “The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other — to disturb, even — is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people,” the WGA wrote in a statement. “It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.” ...
Even a voice within Carr’s own FCC, Commissioner Anna M. Gomez, issued a lengthy statement criticizing the chairman’s bullying. “We cannot allow an inexcusable act of political violence to be twisted into a justification for government censorship and control,” she wrote. “This FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes.”
Perfect.
... Kimmel’s current contract, it should be noted, ends next year, and he has raised the specter of retirement in the past. Whether the suspension by ABC means that he is more likely to exit, or double down and stay with the company, remains to be seen.
Whatever, we won!
