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

[WallFlowerActive]

A trail

It doesn’t matter.  Slander and liable are not criminal, but civil or tort.

The bar to prove slander can be high, to win a case and a payout for liable is lower.  Both are nothing like a criminal case.  Why the family against OJ lost a criminal case but won a civil wrongful death case.

So your what-about-ism concerning the criminal case is irrelevant.  The bar of proof is lower in civil cases.  And Kimmel’s lie opened up his employer to tort and civil cases.

[quintessentone]

How many keyboards did you wear out since this thread started typing the same Leftist talking points over and over again?

Kimmel can pound sand.

None, I have feather-light accurate typing skills.

Kimmel may pound sand in a court room.

[quintessentone]

lol.  They’re not going to allow him to say what ever he wants to say without repercussions.  I’d love to see the terminology of that contract because I guarantee you it doesn’t allow him to say whatever he wants, especially the garbage lies he was spewing.   ABC still has FCC regulations to follow as far as what is best for public interest and I promise you that JK has to adhere to those regulations or be in violation of his own contract.   It’s not a free for all just because the studio gave you some creative wiggle room.  

ABC is not scared, they have more money than he does.  They gave him an option and he said no, so f him.  They own him.

They've allowed him so far until Trump got butthurt.

It all depends on what is written in his employment contract.

[KrustyKrab]

Not if the killer's defense team can prove otherwise. At this time, nothing is written in stone.

Nothing screams MAGA more than a gay dude with a trans lover, that shot a right wing activist.

[quintessentone]

It doesn’t matter.  Slander and liable are not criminal, but civil or tort.

The bar to prove slander can be high, to win a case and a payout for liable is lower.  Both are nothing like a criminal case.  Why the family against OJ lost a criminal case but won a civil wrongful death case.

So your what-about-ism concerning the criminal case is irrelevant.  The bar of proof is lower in civil cases.  And Kimmel’s lie opened up his employer to tort and civil cases.

Kimmel didn't think he was lying.

[KrustyKrab]

They've allowed him so far until Trump got butthurt.

It all depends on what is written in his employment contract.

Trump had nothing to do with it.  Did you not read the attachment to my first post to you?   

The people are speaking up at every turn now.   They don’t like the guy, he’s not funny and his show has been failing for awhile now.  He had the lowest rating of all the late night talk shows.  He’s irrelevant and the left can’t deal with it because they’ve lost their propaganda mouthpiece.  

No one on the left defended Roseanne Barr when Obama made the call with Netflix to axe Barr now did they?   Hypocrites in denial the lot.

[quintessentone]

So here is an interesting article which explains the situation a little differently.

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 "At the time Kimmel said it, on Monday, investigators had not yet provided much information about the suspect's possible motive. Nothing had explicitly linked Robinson with either side of the political spectrum."

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"But Blackwood, the writer for The Beaverton, notes Kimmel didn't say the suspect was absolutely a member of MAGA, but that MAGA was trying to prove he wasn't one of them, as a setup for a joke about Trump's response. 
 "That's not a lie," she said. "Republicans did try to shift any possible association with the shooter as far away from them as possible by blaming the left.""

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"The Poynter Institute, a non-profit media institute, made the same argument, writing on its website Thursday that the point of Kimmel's comment didn't seem to be that he was blaming the MAGA community for Kirk's shooting, "but that the MAGA community was blaming the left and trying to score political points from it."
 
CBC News has previously reported on how the promises to crack down on what Trump calls "radical left" groups began within hours of the Kirk's shooting, and was amplified by his administration on a near-daily basis in the following week."

"Barforoush says she's concerned about the implications of pulling Kimmel off the air, given it's a source of information for so many people and offers an alternative way to engage with current affairs.
And if we're going to discuss fact-checking, we have to discuss both sides of it, she added.
"If we're going to say that anything that goes on late-night has to be fact-checked, then anything that goes on far right radio has to fact-checked, too." "

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Trump started misleading the public hours of the shooting, when no information was out there to confirm the shooter was a radical left.

Timing is everything here.

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Did Jimmy Kimmel 'mislead' people with Charlie Kirk comments, and does it matter? | CBC News

[WallFlowerActive]

So here 

It’s simple.  Let’s put it in terms you can understand.  Kimmel was spreading misinformation.  The affiliates were not going to air his show.  His employer said stop it.  Your opening is up to civil suits and lose of advertising.  Kimmel doubled down, his employer was like we are done.  Over a show with less than 150,000 views each night and not attracting advertising.

[ThePsycho]

It doesn’t matter.  Slander and liable are not criminal, but civil or tort.

The bar to prove slander can be high, to win a case and a payout for liable is lower.  Both are nothing like a criminal case.  Why the family against OJ lost a criminal case but won a civil wrongful death case.

So your what-about-ism concerning the criminal case is irrelevant.  The bar of proof is lower in civil cases.  And Kimmel’s lie opened up his employer to tort and civil cases.

Libel, not liable

[WallFlowerActive]

Kimmel didn't think he was lying.

Still can’t spread his misinformation.  His employer said stop.  Kimmel was going to double down in his next episode.  It’s doesn’t mater what he thought when proven wrong and willing to double down on misinformation so the employer protected themselves.  Not that deep.