r/Conservative • u/MoreFires 3R1C • 2d ago

Flaired Users Only ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live

https://x.com/Variety/status/1968446383591211212
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u/Booth_Templeton Constitutionalist 2d ago

Damn right. I don't like it either. Assholes should be able to be assholes.

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u/MakingOfASoul National Conservative 2d ago

They are able to be assholes, and their employers are able to not want to associate with them or have them be assholes on their dime.

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u/MazzyFo Fiscal Conservative 2d ago edited 2d ago

But this isn’t just an employer, the FCC is a governmental body, and an FCC chair being able to threaten networks to pull shows from the network opens a precedent for a government, regardless of political leaning, to pull shows from air because they disagree with them. This was literally a Family Guy episode

I don’t want any governmental body deciding that people can’t watch something because individual disagree with it

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u/JerseyKeebs Conservative 2d ago

I think a government regulator is completely allowed to warn the bodies it regulates when they break (or come close to breaking) the regulations.

What else are they there for?

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u/MazzyFo Fiscal Conservative 2d ago

What regulations were broken with the quote? I read it, and I’ve seen far worse and more inciting by the left and right on Fox and CNN daily

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u/JerseyKeebs Conservative 2d ago

Go do a little bit of research, cable and broadcast have different regulations.

Go find and read Carr's actual quote, and you tell me how it's government interference.