ABC Television and its Parent company, Disney, have seen a revolt by two of their largest local TV Broadcast Affiliate Station Networks, over remarks made by Late Night Host Jimmy Kimmel.
Yesterday, NEXTSTAR and SINCLAIR, which own hundreds of TV stations, informed ABC they would not be airing Kimmel for awhile.
NEXTSTAR and SINCLAIR reportedly told ABC that Kimmel's remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, "do not fit with the values of the communities we serve." The two ABC affiliate networks own hundreds of TV stations across the USA, and for them to tell ABC they would not be airing ABC's premier late night show, was astonishing.
Later yesterday, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made clear that publicly licensed TV stations are required to serve their local communities with content that is "in the public interest."
Kimmel expressing factually wrong information about the killing, then heaping political views based on that false factual information "Does not serve the public interest"
Because of the ABC Affiliates refusing to air Kimmel, his show is now off the air, until further notice or action.
LEFT-WING FREAK-OUT
The political left-wing is now losing its collective mind over this situation, screeching about Free Speech. But it was the political left that set the stage for this.
Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.
Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too.
Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes.
Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him.
Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions.
Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs.
Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight.
J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind.
Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts.
Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship.
Patterns have been clear:
Coordinated advertiser boycotts.
Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses.
Until this week, there have been two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed.
Accountability only ever went one way. The Left has spent the last decade perfecting cancel culture, destroying jobs, nuking shows, wiping platforms off the internet, and laughing while people’s lives were ruined. But sure… Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination? Totally fine.
Not anymore!
