https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2025/09/17/fcc-threats-jimmy-kimmel/86206823007/
In a stunning move, ABC announced Wednesday, Sept. 17 that it was taking "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air indefinitely, after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened Kimmel and the network on a podcast over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with shooting Charlie Kirk.
In a year of gutless moves by major media companies, this may be the most gutless. ABC should be ashamed.
Earlier Wednesday, Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened ABC, Disney and Jimmy Kimmel over a Kimmel monologue about Charlie Kirk, ominously saying, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
A quick reminder that Carr is the chairman of the FCC, not a mob boss in a third-rate gangster movie. It's another example of Donald Trump's administration's threats to free speech, or at least free speech that doesn't praise Trump. Anything the president doesn't agree with or takes offense to, you're all out of luck.
Love vs Hate
Started by joj - Sept. 13, 2025, 8:52 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/114645/
Mike pointed out the true path in a previous thread.
The last significant game changer in American politics that deployed the message of love extinguishing hate, was Martin Luther King. But MLK jr had an ally in the White House in LBJ. Were a messenger to rise up and capture the hearts of Americans they would NOT find an ally in the White House. They would find a president looking to exploit his politidal opponents with his executive powers. He said so: "I will go after those on the left who have incited this violence." This same Trump has referred to his political opponents as vermin. Incitement indeed.
I fear, I'm sorry to say, this has parallels to the Reichstag fire. It's what authoritarians do.
"First they came for John Bolton....."
I don't know where this is heading, but I fear for the end of the Republic.
The things that Fox has stated this past month are 1 million times more offensive and egregious compared to what Kimmel said.
The difference is that the 1 station that lies all day long for Trump is adored by him, anybody else that criticizes anything about Trump or MAGA are targeted by Trump. ............the heck with free speech!
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Kash Patel
Started by metmike - Sept. 17, 2025, 7:46 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/114742/
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How can RFK Jr. be allowed to do this???
By metmike - Sept. 17, 2025, 7:56 p.m.
VP Vance is on Watters/Fox tonight:
"The Biden administration was after phantom White Supremacists that don't exist in this country"
On the investigations and objective to eliminate the far left organizations in our country.
"If we had done this sooner, Charlie Kirk would still be with us today"!
This is just the usual stuff on his show. I actually liked Vance a great deal a few years ago.
Watters celebrated the decision by ABC to take Kimmel off the air..........OF COURSE!
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Vice-presidential pick has said he would have blocked certification of 2020 results in key states won by Biden
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-political-views-trump
JD Vance once feared Donald Trump might be “America’s Hitler”. Last Saturday, the Ohio senator claimed Democrats calling Trump “an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs” caused the assassination attempt the former president survived.
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https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/jd-vance-trump-statements
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Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice president, liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and his policies — including one speculating that Vance could serve in former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s administration.
Other tweets liked by Vance said Trump committed “serial sexual assault,” called him “one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs,” and, in a since-removed set of tweets, harshly criticized Trump’s response to the deadly 2017 White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – something Vance now defends Trump over.
Vance’s past anti-Trump stances have been well-documented, but these new examples, unearthed by an extensive review of Vance’s past social media activity, demonstrate they were more widespread and scathing than previously known. As CNN’s KFile previously reported, Vance deleted past anti-Trump tweets ahead of his announcement in July 2021 that he would run for the open Ohio Senate seat. Vance once privately wondered whether Trump was ‘America’s Hitler’ in February 2016, and a few months later wrote in The Atlantic that Trump was “cultural heroin.”