Jimmy Kimmel pulled from the air over false comment about Kirk murder

[Bootless]

And until slander laws are tightened up in the USA politicians are going to keep lying about each other.  But slandering a none public person is well established and enforced.

Remember when the mainstream media threw Nicholas Sandmann to the wolves? Throwing a 17 year old under the bus at the alter of identity politics.  I see a pattern.

Just now looking at his X account. He got much money from settled lawsuits. Became a big GOP star, rubbing shoulders with the big dogs, Musk, Giuliani, Erik Trump, Kyle Rittenhouse, etc.

Wikipedia: 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation

The American news media has been criticized for covering the incident without fully investigating what occurred and fueling controversy and outrage. Covington students have filed a number of multi-million dollar defamation lawsuits against news agencies. Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington student featured in most media coverage of the incident, settled lawsuits with CNN, The Washington Post, and NBCUniversal. He later lost his suits against The New York Times, CBS, ABC, Rolling Stone, and Gannett.

Yet Trump immediately blamed the Radical Left for Kirk's murder when nothing had been investigated.

I remember that time when Prez. Nixon said right after Charlie Manson got arrested something like "Of course he's guilty, you can tell by looking at him." Nixon had to totally back off his remarks because prosecutors informed him that he was blowing the case. Normal Presidents don't make judgements of guilt or innocents.

In Los Angeles, defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald told reporters, "If we're going to have the chief executive of this nation categorically or uncategorically speculate on people's guilt, we ought to abandon this court system. Maybe President Nixon in a news conference ought to determine whether these people are guilty."

Nixon Calls Manson Guilty; Attorneys Move a Mistrial

But here we are, but by tweets and such.

[Vermilion]

Yes, I also read that late night entertainment was failing due to streaming. So why not just cancel Kimmel's show, why suspend it?

Well, there’s this little pesky Wall Street journal article today which shines light on why ABC and Disney pulled his plug.
Jimmy was going to go on Wednesday night, the night after his attempt to pin Charlie’s death on Charlie, and double down on stupid.
ABC and Disney chair Iger talked to Kimmel before he was supposed to go on and decided that wasn’t a good idea.


NEWS Disney’s CEO Bob Iger and co-chair Dana Walden made the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s show after he planned to double down and go on camera to defend his lie that MAGA voters killed Charlie Kirk rather than "kowtow” to the outrage, Hollywood Reporter reports. They yanked him because they “thought that would fan the flames” as Nexstar and Sinclair affiliates dropped him.

“The advertiser calls began to roll in and then the big affiliate conglomerates, Nexstar and Sinclair, threatened to preempt the show.” This is market reaction, and not tied to FCC chair Brendan Carr’s actions.

Kimmel even planned to double down and not apologize after “Disney employees saw their emails doxxed..some even received death threats.” When “66 of the roughly 200 affiliate stations had said they would” drop him, that’s when Iger and Walden pulled the plug.
https://x.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/196...3797665085
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/jimmy...malertNEWS
Hollywood Reporter has also reported on it now.
So much for all those FCC conspiracy theories LoL

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-...236374959/

[guyfriday]

and now the truth is coming out about this.
Exclusive | Jimmy Kimmel future at ABC was up in air before Charlie Kirk uproar

Jimmy Kimmel’s future at ABC was up in the air even before his incendiary TV comments, multiple sources told Page Six.
The multi-millionaire late night host had just months left on his deal with Disney, and was set to start negotiations with bigwigs later this year.
However, we’re told that ABC may have been getting ready to push him out after this season.
Sources said the network could’ve used the furore over his outspoken nightly monologues to pull the plug early and avoid another year of Kimmel’s controversial comments.

So it looks as if the network just used this Charlie Kirk uproar as an excuse to dump Kimmel earlier than planned.

[ANNEE]

One of my first thoughts was Trump using this assassination to promote himself and it backfiring in a big way. 

Thanks for explaining about the ballroom construction — I didn’t quite get it when I read it.

[Vermilion]

One of my first thoughts was Trump using this assassination to promote himself and it backfiring in a big way. 

Thanks for explaining about the ballroom construction — I didn’t quite get it when I read it.

Seems to me the one trying to promote anything was the one who inscribed the advertisements on the bullets.

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[ElitePlebeian]

Nobody knows the facts of this case, it's all speculation. The facts will come out during the court trial not here on DI, and certainly not from your 'wanna be' facts.

The US Constitution is what Trump uses to wipe his ass after he shits out his cheeseburgers.

Lol Obama had his administration call news stations and social media to cancel opponents. Biden/Obama used FBI to go after conservatives. All was revealed in the Twitter files.

Obama used CIA, FBI and DOJ to go after Trump directly, but no Kimmel getting canceled by his own boss because he s an unprofitable propaganda puppet is what really is the attack on democracy. ? Give me a break.

[FlyersFan]

Every time theirs mass shooting/shooting — MAGA starts immediately pointing blame at Left/Liberals and distancing themselves from any involvement. 

It is not a lie.

Yes it is a lie.
Kimmel said that the shooter was MAGA and that MAGA is trying desperately to deny it.
That's a flat out lie.   It's inflammatory.   It's not 'comedy'.   It's also absurd.

As I stated .... the shooter was registered to vote but to no party, he hadn't voted in the last two elections, he never spouted MAGA slogans or talked MAGA, and according to his parents and roommate/lover he was spouting more and more left wing ideology for the past year.   Law enforcement and the Gov. of Utah have come out and said that he was spouting left wing ideology this past year as well.

KIMMEL LIED.   He is part of the problem in this country.   And you are dead wrong.

[FlyersFan]

The lying looks to be coming from both sides here, since the shooter's voting record indicated no political affiliation. 

Not this time.   This time it's Kimmel and the left who are lying, not the right.

Kimmel said that the shooter is MAGA ... that's a flat out lie.  

The shooter was registered to vote but to no party, and hadn't voted in the past two elections.  He also is reported never to have supported Trump and never engaged in MAGA ideology.    HOWEVER ... the people who knew him best, his parents and his trans-lover roommate, say he became left wing in the past year and engaged in left wing rhetoric and ideology.   

The shooter was a lefty.   He wasn't MAGA.   And MAGA isn't trying to cover that he is MAGA.   Kimmel lied and the hateful lemmings who watch him ate it up.   He's part of the problem in this country.

[FlyersFan]

Not if he believed that the shooter's upbringing was seeped in MAGA ideology and that somehow also played a part.

You are desperate.
Kirk was full on MAGA.
If the shooter was MAGA he wouldn't have murdered Kirk.
He would have, instead, worshipped at the Kirk altar.

The notion that the shooter was MAGA is desperation and absurd.
It's a partisan lie that fails instantly.