To those who are calling for a return of Jimmy Kimmel, careful what you wish for.


Now they will have to face the issues that were about to toss him off the air before the Charlie Kirk comment controversy.

This also gives the FCC guy and others a second chance to keep their mouths shut when the opposition is shooting themselves in the foot.

Now let’s see who has and hasn’t learned anything.

Anybody have a listing or knowledge of which stations/regions Nexstar and Sinclair have their stations?

Are they the largest owner of ABC affiliate stations in the country or, just the two loudest? Knowing this along with the other major television station owners, has opened peoples eyes to where and how the strings of network programing and broadcast work.

Here are the wiki entries (very long). A good place to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...%20Broadcast%20Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...star%20Media%20Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...20(by%20U.S.%20state)

Disney Gives Kimmel Show Back, But Nexstar & Sinclair Still Refuse To Air

Hours after 400 artists signed an ACLU letter in response to Jimmy Kimmel's firing, the late-night host's 'indefinite termination' for propaganda surrounding the Charlie Kirk assassination has been turned into a week's vacation.

According to Variety, Disney and ABC are bringing the comedian back to its schedule Tuesday night.

"Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive," the company said in a statement. "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

Of note, none of the Nexstar or Sinclair affiliates will carry the show.

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.

Nexstar, similarly, could also choose to continue to preempt the show, though of course it would still be accessible online across the country after it runs on ABC. -Hollywood Reporter

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ghtful-conversations

So perhaps the play is ABC/Disney saves face with it's leftist artists and employees/industry by putting him back on the air.

The affiliates won't show him and take the blame, advertisers balk, and the finances and number turn against him.

Now They can let him go for failing to draw viewers and revenue, it's no longer about free speech, it's about money.

Bill O’Reilly RIPS APART the ‘Free Speech’ Spin Surrounding Jimmy Kimmel With One Brutal Fact
He says the Trump v. Kimmel story is BS — the real free speech story is this.

The Vigilant Fox

Jimmy Kimmel will finally return to the air on Tuesday night, after his show was briefly yanked for falsely labeling Kirk’s suspected assassin as “one of them” in a distasteful dig at conservatives.

Democrats rushed to defend Kimmel, calling it a “First Amendment issue.” But Bill O’Reilly says that story is, frankly, bullsh*t. The real free speech story, he argues, is what these mainstream networks have been doing for years.

NewsNation’s Leland Vittert asked O’Reilly if he thinks Kimmel will apologize on his first show back since last Tuesday. O’Reilly blunted said “no,” and Vittert agreed.

After briefly noting that Kimmel’s punishment was a bit too harsh, he turned the tables on the “freedom of speech” narrative itself — branding the left’s spin on it as complete BS.

“Look, this [Trump v. Kimmel] story is bogus,” O’Reilly told Vittert. “The [real] story is that Disney and Kimmel, for three years, would not put on a non-liberal voice on his program.”

“You talk about no freedom of speech and expression? That story has been totally ignored,” O’Reilly lamented. “And it’s not just ABC. It was CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN. Okay? They will not put any non-liberal voice on the air.”

O’Reilly recalled how, before the Trump era, he was booked regularly on mainstream networks. Now, he says he and other conservatives have been deliberately excluded from those programs — something he called “Putin stuff.”

“This whole freedom of speech BS is coming from the far left to make Kimmel a victim and to make Trump a villain when, for ten years, they have BANISHED all traditional conservative thought and discourse on all of their programs.”

“All of them,” O’Reilly continued. “They don’t want non-liberal voices. That is Putin stuff!”

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/...-rips-apart-the-free

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“The [real] story is that Disney and Kimmel, for three years, would not put on a non-liberal voice on his program.”

“You talk about no freedom of speech and expression? That story has been totally ignored,” O’Reilly lamented. “And it’s not just ABC. It was CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN. Okay? They will not put any non-liberal voice on the air.”

During election campaign season, Colbert would have random Democrat candidates as guests who were running for an obscure House seat. His show, like Kimmel, Oliver and Meyers were for all-intents PR-arms for the Dems, zero conservative or non-Leftist guests. The flip-side, hardly anybody watches these programs the last decade ergo, the pushback was minimal.

Kudos to Nexstar and Sinclair

oopsie

Lose that many stations on an already failing show, gonna be hard to keep advertisers on board. Hahaha.
Maybe Kimmel and Col Bert can open up a watermelon stand.

I have no idea what will happen when Kimmel’s show airs tonight. Don’t watch and won’t watch, it’ll be well reported whatever happens. I’ll find out tomorrow.
Unless there hard and fast terms and parameters going forward, I presume Kimmel will think he has ABC by the short hairs and he display that attitude sooner or later.

So, he is depending on Robert de Moron to save his show?

In ancient Persia, there were stories about a character named Nasruddin. One story is particularly relevant to the corruption of present day Democrats.

Nasruddin ived in a small vegetarian village. But one day he had a hankering for roasted chicken. He did not want to kill the chicken himself, so he hired a henchman.

"Take the chicken where no one sees and kill it," he instructed.

So the man took the chicken and ran off to hide behind a boulder. "Ah! Now he is killing the chicken."

He was about to go start a fire in the hibachi when the man stood up, holding the chicken, and ran behind a tree. "Okay, now he is doing it."

But the man popped out from behind the tree, and started running for a big bush. Nasaruddin, befuddled, called him in.

"I thought I told you to go where no one sees and kill the chicken."

"But everywhere I go," the man explained, "the chicken sees!"

It is a beautiful parable about conscience. You can commit a misdeed and even if nobody else knows about it, you know about it.

Take Jimmy Kimmel. He knows that he has been spewing lies for years. He knows that what he said about Charlie Kirk was false and ugly. And deep down, beyond the sight of anyone, he feels shame. That's why he started crying.

The chicken sees.

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Take Jimmy Kimmel. He knows that he has been spewing lies for years. He knows that what he said about Charlie Kirk was false and ugly. And deep down, beyond the sight of anyone, he feels shame. That's why he started crying.

I didn't watch it... but I pulled the YouTube and he sort of apologized. His ratings may have had a jump last night, but I suspect that might be short lived.

He's suddenly all for freedom of speech... so in that sense it's a victory. Progressives haven't even attempted to support free speech at least since Covid.

Kimmel tried to give a mea culpa, but couldn't get past the M.

Kimmel's most recent comments, regarding Mr. Kirk, did not disturb me, as my opinion of him could not possibly be lowered. What I didn't expect was for Adam Carolla (known "regular guy") to show his support for Kimmel (when he could have just said nothing). I am not punting Mr. Carolla to the curb, as he has exhibited a rational perspective on many issues plaguing California living, Liberal Leftist policy, and how its effects should not be surprising, but expected. I'm just disappointed he's still blinded by his personal relationship with Kimmel, and giving him undue grace.

Kimmel is a degenerate worm who should've had his show cancelled years ago if it was meant to be anything other that political propaganda. I wish him the worst.

If he acknowledged falsely accusing a MAGA supporter for the killing “just like him” [Charlie Kirk], then the wording he used made it nearly impossible to recognize an apology for that.

Early this morning, the New York Times ran a predictable story headlined, “Back on air, Jimmy Kimmel defends free speech in emotional monologue.” Not that anyone who needs to hear this is listening, but Kimmel’s unremarkable and tearful apology proved the absence of any heavy hand of censorship, even if his stupid time-out can possibly be included in the same Free Speech volume as Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

To his credit (or maybe to Disney’s management’s credit), it was a complete, unstinting apology, correctly combining sympathy, empathy, humility, and regret. Kimmel told his half dozen viewers that he understood why his comments last week about the shooter seemed “ill-timed, or unclear, or maybe both.” Voice cracking, he tearfully added, “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”

“Nor,” Kimmel continued, “was it my intention to blame any specific group; that was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. For those who think I did point the finger, I get why you’re upset, and if the situation were reversed, I would probably feel the same way.”

Tearing up a second time, he praised Erika Kirk for forgiving the assassin. “It touched me deeply,” Mr. Kimmel said hoarsely. “If there’s anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that, and not this.”

With that unpleasant task out of the way, Kimmel got right back to excoriating President Trump, accusing him of trying to get the show canceled, mocking his Tylenol announcement, and so on. Later, in an unpleasant surprise cameo, geriatric actor Robert DeNiro appeared in a puff of sulphuric smoke, playing a deranged, mafia-style FCC Commissioner, in order to mock the real one, amiable Brendan Carr.

That, I guess, is what passes for comedy on progressive media these days. Of course, we already know leftists are humorless killjoys, but whatever.

In sum, Kimmel devoted his emotional energy to pacifying the public, and then immediately ratcheted up his defiance of the government. Had his short suspension really been the result of Disney’s desire to make up with the FCC, Kimmel’s monologue would gone much differently. He’d have said conciliatory things about the President and Commissioner Carr, and would have apologized to them. In other words, Kimmel’s tear-stained apology proved that his bosses were more afraid of the public than the government.

Of course, that didn’t stop BlueSkiers from taking their irrational victory laps, huffing and puffing behind their masks.

Meanwhile, ABC’s two largest affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair, which together make up about a fifth of total ABC stations, ran news segments instead. Now that’s free speech.

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^^^^ What’s the source/link of that image about Kimmel? That’s a made up quote. A quick investigation shows that he never said exactly that. He said the following, according to Grok, which is verified by multiple other sources:

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On May 29, 2018, during his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue, Jimmy Kimmel addressed Roseanne Barr’s firing by ABC after her racist tweet, saying: “Roseanne Barr tweeted something so racist and so disgusting that even our president, who’s no stranger to racist tweets himself, was like, ‘Whoa, take it easy!’” He followed this by commending ABC’s decision: “I want to say kudos to my bosses at ABC for doing the right thing and canceling Roseanne’s show today. It’s not an easy thing to do when a show is successful, but it’s the right thing.” Additionally, on May 30, 2018, Kimmel posted on X: “What @TheRealRoseanne said is indefensible, but angrily attacking a woman who is obviously not well does no good for anyone. Please take a breath and remember that mental health issues are real. The Roseanne I know could probably use some compassion and help right now.”

Whether you’re on the left or the right, I despise people who take things out of context or twist the truth so to fit and advance their agenda. And President Trump is likely the number one victim of this tactic. The left gives us plenty of raw materials to work on, already. Why the need to fabricate things?

As Charlie used to say, pove me wrong.

Well, neither my source nor Grok (nor their multiple other sources) got it right. I got mine from a source that usually proofs what it posts when I check it, so I didn't. Grok being, well AI, is generally not to be relied upon as dispositive and wasn't.

As to proof neither was right: the Internet Archive to the rescue. Here's a link to the actual show video, and what he said about Roseanne on May 29, 2018 is on the 11:53 segment. Click on the picture and it plays with audio, transcription shown underneath. Internet Archive - Jimmy Kimmel Live, May 29, 2018 He was far from broken hearted about it but nothing about free speech, kudos to anyone etc.