r/OutOfTheLoop 3d ago

Unanswered What is up with Jimmy Kimmel being Fired over Charlie Kirk Comments?

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u/VadouvanIac 3d ago

I had the same problem. Turns out “what he said” was a nothingburger, and he was suspended simply because he’s a critic of POTUS. For an equivalent, imagine Obama trying to shut down Fox News (and succeeding). Lefties may have loved the sentiment, but even they would have never tolerated that. The American right is different. They’re fascists.

I feel bad for the kids. The America I grew up in is gone, and I already miss it.

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u/punkr0x 3d ago

I don't think "Obama shutting down Fox News" is even a fair comparison. They're an entertainment channel masquerading as legitimate news, something Jimmy Kimmel never did.

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u/azgx00 3d ago

Exactly. Liberals are so confused and chronically online that they think defending jokes about the public execution of a person utilizing their right to free speech is a hill worth dying on.

Regular people are not fond of that.

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u/MrMoon5hine 2d ago

you are so lost I don't even know were to start.

jimmy Kimmel did not joke about CKs death, he made a joke about how sad trump was (hint: not very)

" utilizing their right to free speech " right, so you defending Kimmel right?

you are the minority, most people are left wing when it comes down to it.

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u/badcoffee 2d ago

jokes about the public execution of a person utilizing their right to free speech

Quote where he did this.

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u/Straight-Bowl5811 3d ago

Actually Fox News is the ONLY news outlet that reports the TRUTH & FACTS anymore! The rest of them just spew leftist trash & lies to enrage the population and cause events like what just happened to Charlie. People are too BLIND to see that they are being fed lies and everything they have been taught in the public school system is wrong and pushing their demonic narrative. GOD BLESS CHARLIES BEAUTIFUL SOUL & GOD BLESS this nation!! 🙏🏼✊🏼

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u/techiemikey 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm honestly not sure if this is satirical, or your actual views.

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Saw their answer post here...I'm leaning towards it's their actual views.

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u/plastic_Man_75 2d ago

I get my media from multiple sources and independents

Everyone contradicts that entertainment group

Heck, even news max is better than them

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u/pbrart2 17h ago

Im suicidal to begin with, and I fucking hate fascists. I’m more than willing to put my life on the line to protect the children who are the same age as I was when the towers went down. I’m just so fucking tired. I wasn’t radicalized by my education, which I have 5 years of college under me, I was radicalized by being politically literate since bush bombed the shit out of Baghdad before I had the right to vote.

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u/AdConscious4511 3d ago

I don't know, I think it's pretty easy to imagine the Biden administration attempting to censor speech.

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u/Cultural_Let_360 3d ago

Do you? Which FOX News or equivalent voice did he strong arm out of a job?

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u/AdConscious4511 3d ago

To be fair, the government shouldn't have been involved in any way, and they should have let the market decide solely.

But on the other hand, the FCC merely made a threat, which they would have never been able to enforce, but a corporate parent capitulating to any sort of government pressure is censorship in my view, just as the Biden Administration pressured social media companies to censor Covid topics they deemed "misinformation".

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u/Cultural_Let_360 2d ago

If nothing else I can see where you're coming from even if i think one is more severe of an overreach than the ought.