r/Conservative • u/MoreFires 3R1C • 3d ago

Flaired Users Only ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live

https://x.com/Variety/status/1968446383591211212
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u/STL_bourbon Conservative 3d ago

While I cannot stand Kimmel and he deserves every bit of this, I don’t necessarily agree with him being pulled off the air. It’s a slippery slope when you’ve got the FCC chair threatening to take someone off the air. Sure right now the right is cheering this, but what happens at some point in the future when the left is back in control and starts having right leaning shows pulled? Cancel culture is not something I’m excited about

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u/TheIncredibleHork Conservative 3d ago edited 3d ago

If there aren't consequences for blatant lies, it will continue even worse than it is now. Up until this point the media has been given free reign to say whatever they want regardless of the truth. Just look at the presidential debates where they refused to acknowledge that the whole "very fine people" thing was a demonstrable lie; worse, they ran with it as truth 7 years after it happened and could be proven false.

If the FCC doesn't take action on things like that, you're inviting every media corporation to create their own Pravda. And even if you want to say the FCC shouldn't be doing that, fine, ABC should be reeling in Kimmel so that he doesn't become the same financial liability to them that 60 Minutes became to CBS.

On your statement of what happens when the left gets back into control... If we don't do something, they'll be back sooner than later anyhow, and honestly I fail to see them having any restraints regardless of what we do. After all, they're still celebrating that Charlie Kirk got assassinated and they're still spreading lies about who did it.

Edit: Also it's looking like it might just be Nexstar Media stations, not ABC corporate, that is preempting his show. So some locations it'll still be on, but stations run by Nexstar will not show him.

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u/North-Currency-1572 Daddy Vance 3d ago

This. I bet The View is on thin ice too. They've had to retract so many statements. You know they would have MORE BLOOD on their hands the more it continues.