Yesterday the New York Times published the following story:
“ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure”
My immediate comment was one of four thousand:
It’s worth noting that Kimmel’s network, ABC, has some major business deals pending. Sound familiar? Fallon and Meyers could be next. Late night comedy has always helped me laugh a little and keep the day’s nightmares out of my bedroom. Last night, not so much. All this over a man I’d never heard of until last week.
I fear for my country.
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are both on NBC. I hope for their sakes that NBC isn’t contemplating any big business deals.
Trump and his MAGA cronies are working overtime to smother and destroy free speech in America, so of course they are being targeted by the comedians. They are always the biggest story. Their actions keep them in the headlines constantly. They keep the focus on themselves and invite, even beg for, attention. But they should know that if they dominate the headlines, they’re going to pay the price. They can’t have it both ways. Who’s going to cover them with publicity and praise if they kill off the commentary, the news reports, the mass media?
Trump loves to blame “the left,” whoever or whatever that is, for every bad thing that happens in America. Yet all the noise, all the headlines, are being generated from the right, from MAGA and company. The left can’t get a word in edgewise with Trump dominating the news. Of course, he has to keep up the noise or someone might mention the Epstein files again.
just sad.
… to say the least
Idiocy continues
and gets worse with each passing day
Insidious. That’s what’s describes the decline of the freedom of speech in the USA. We take it for granted because it’s always been there. But the FCC chairman said, “We can do this (fire J. Kimmel) the easy way or the hard way.” The message is clear, whether you’ve seen “The Godfather” or not. Freedom of speech in 1930’s Germany was shut down similarly, Insidious.
Kirk’s widow’s remarks, following the horrific death of her husband, included lavish praise of an all powerful God who let it happen. How do you reason with someone who thinks that way?
You can’t. That’s the terrifying part of this whole thing. So many
Americanspeople think this way, and so many are now in positions of power turning everything upside down, inside out, or ignoring or eliminating it altogether. They don’t concern themselves at all with the rights of others being the point at which their own rights end. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights be damned.First, Colorado, I’m not getting the email that tells me you’ve published another post. 🙁
Then comes my disregard of everything to do with ‘god’ and of people who profess to be followers but behave as Kirk did.
And finally I wish that you and all YOUR followers would subscribe to the daily Substacks of both Heather Cox Richardson for the facts and Christopher Armitage for what steps can be taken. Because this latter, especially, you all urgently need.
The not-receiving-email issue has occurred with several other subscribers in the past and the only advice I could get from WordPress was to tell you to subscribe again via my standard subscription form, https://piedtype.com/about/follow-pied-type-via-email/
(Also accessible via the three dots in the upper right corner of this page.) My trying to manually add someone to the subscriber list has never worked. I just installed a new subscription form; maybe it will be more reliable.
I have several Substack subscriptions but confess I rarely get around to reading them. They are few among many sources I read and lately can barely bring myself to read at all. It’s just all too depressing. I’ll try to include Richardson and Armitage this week, if Trump’s hatchet men haven’t shut them down.
And I agree with you about Kirk. MAGA is acting like he was a saint, and from what I’ve read about things he said, he was anything but.