FCC Chairman Says His “Easy Way Or The Hard Way” Comment About Jimmy Kimmel Wasn’t Meant As A Threat To Pull Licenses If ABC Didn’t Fire Him
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1294024
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This is why you don't acquiesce to facsist threats...
If you fold, they win for free, and can claim that it's a coincidence you do what they wanted.
This morherfucker was posting memes on social media laughing about how it worked and had been intentionally planned. Now he wants to act like it was just an offhand comment.
You have to fight every fucking battle, no matter how pedantic, how pointless, or how much plausible deniability they have.
Don't give them a fucking inch for free, because if it's easy they'll keep doing it. If every inch is a battle, it runs down the clock and makes them want to just fuck off and go golfing instead.
Damn right.
No quarter for fascists.
I mean, it’s a corpo that acquiesced. They don’t care about rights or vindication or freedom, they just care about line go up. This is good advice for average people, but does not make the line go up.
Counterpoint: we've got to tell the mega corporations and C-suiters that they will lose money appealing to MAGA. Go fash, lose cash. Give money to the ones that fight back, buy from good local businesses, and be informed about where the megas stand and cut back as much support as you can.
Finally, a worthy opponent to “go woke, go broke” — I'll use “go fash, lose cash” for years to come!
I cant claim that I created it (dunno where I first saw it either) but absolutely use it! And make sure the 1% knows it true, too
Bullshit
Bullshit
Bullshit
Bullshit
Gaslighters are gonna gaslight.
Bullshit word salad.
Also from this article, but I want to remind people of this, too:
This is what Carr thought was "some of the sickest conduct possible":
So, for Brendan Carr, "the sickest conduct possible" refers to comedians making extremely tame jokes about politicians and saying exactly what they were doing. "The sickest conduct possible" is apparently not what the politicians were actually doing, when they were exploiting Kirk's death for their own gains.
You know, personally, when I think of "the sickest conduct possible," I tend to think of other things. Maybe things more similar to assaulting and raping children or sexually assaulting women in a changing room. You know, actually bad things where people get hurt. Not stuff where you're just telling the truth to politicians who are embarrassed by the truth.
Or like Brian Kill-em-all saying ON AIR that homeless people should all just be murdered by lethal injection.
Everyone keeps reposting that monologue quote but completely ignores the part where he just played clips of Trump not seeming to give a damn that Kirk had been murdered.
The FCC chair threatened to kill a merger for Nextstar if they didn't threaten ABC to get Kimmel taken off the air, because he insulted Trump, Nextstar pressured ABC, and ABC capitulated.
This was never about comments Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk, and shame on the entirely of media in this country for framing it that way. This was because Jimmy Kimmel insulted President Donald Trump.
What you're saying is true, but the problem is that the part where Trump doesn't give a shit about Kirk can't be spun. There is nobody who would see Kimmel criticizing Trump for having zero empathy for Kirk, and accept the spin that it was an insult towards Kirk.
On the other hand, the first part can be spun. They say that Kimmel was lying about the assassin's motives which dishonors the memory of Kirk. Of course, Kimmel said no such thing.
In fact, he was saying that MAGA was lying about the assassin's motives. As far as I know, we still haven't heard anything about the killer's motives, so anybody who claims they know the killer's motives, even his parents, are just making shit up.
So, as far as I can tell, Kimmel was doing what MAGA was claiming that they were doing, being respectful towards Kirk, while calling out people who were being disrespectful. And meanwhile, MAGA was doing what they were claiming Kimmel was doing, lying about the shooter's motives. But I won't say that this really dishonors Kirk. He'd have lied, too.
Reminds me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mOY7OMHh4
“Everything I say or do is a joke unless I get away with it.”
Utter and complete bullshit.
Yes
He needs to be removed from his position immediately and have an investigation opened into his actions
I mean, yes, but....
LOL. good one.
I mean, it does need to happen.
It's just part of a long list of other things that also need to happen
And have his feet beaten with a shitty stick until the skin peels off?
Yeah, I think politician should actually have to live under the Singaporean laws penal code
Nah
Conservatives are liars, hypocrites and bullies.
The fact that nobody ever calls them out for the blatantly obvious lies to their face is the most infuriating thing of all. They think we're brainless monkeys and they get away with it because nobody pushes back
Plenty of people call them out on it - they've just spent my lifetime insulating themselves from any impact coming from it.
I mean on the TV, during the interviews, directly after they tell the obvious lies.
Literally everyone who's not a republican is constantly jumping at the bit to "call out republicans", because its the main way they feed their ego. Republicans are bad, ive pointed it out loudly, so now I'm a good person.
Its cheap and easy, but hardly the truth. Republicans have real problems just like anyone else. Learn how to have a conversation with someone who's come to a different conclusion than yourself.
And most of all: scared.
Buddy I know a pile of shit when I see it. Call it fudge all you like, but even after you take a bite to reassure me you're not lying, we both know the truth.
OK. Did anyone complain to FCC about a certain turd gleefully advocating euthanasia of the homeless? What's happening with that investigation?
Fox is cable.
Maga lying sack of crap
Violation of Civil Rights under the color of law.
If we still have elections in 2026-2028, I have a feeling this hopped up nobody is going to be made an example out of.
Bullshit
Bullshit
Bullshit
"I said to take care of him. I did not specify what that meant, you're just putting words into my mouth" - "plausible" deniability
Any other insult around the facts of what he said or did would be much more helpful than this.
Lol.
"No no no, I meant easy at in less paperwork! An offer you can't refuse? No no, that's buy one get one free. And when I said you should meet my little friend, I meant our coworker Joey. He's 5'7"!"
Trump's Nazis lie with each breath.
"Nazi" is no longer hyperbole.
I'll echo again Bull. Shit.
Bullshit
Really having trouble interpreting that as anything other than a threat.
It's gonna be great when all these fascists are dead
More Mafia tactics. Playing the plausable deniability game and gaslighting. What an asshole.
If the ratings were so low, then why is he back?
Can't speak to the ratings, but given the nature of things, I wouldn't be surprised if ratings were a fairly secondary concern.
This was a PR nightmare, people who didn't care one way or another about the show were outraged. People were cancelling Disney+ subscriptions that had nothing to do with the show.
The administration may have even pushed things back in place so they could come out with this backpedaling with some degree of 'credibility'. They saw that the Colbert way worked without unacceptable blowback, but more direct threats and immediate action are the line that starts making things riskier. Besides, the late night hosts are relatively harmless outlets for those upset with the administration, bread and circuses and all. Sure they may boo the administration, but it doesn't matter. They were booing all through the 2024 campaign season and it didn't phase things at all.
So Kimmel is probably safe until at least the midterms are settled, no matter the ratings.
Oh, that's why he's walking it back! Must have got a call from the Mouse.
looks like this dumbass didn't realize he took the hard way.
eat shit maga cuck.
what? he said it iROnicAlLY??
I didn't say it
And if I did, I didn't mean it
And if I didn't, I was joking
And if I wasn't, you are overreacting
or something like that
I see we have reached the "and if it was (bad), I didn't mean it" stage of the Narcissist's Prayer.
It wasn't a threat, it was an offer they couldn't refuse.
('couldn't' in sense of capitalism)
FCC Chairman: Someone should take care of Jimmy Kimmel.
[deep state assassins terminate Kimmel]
FCC Chairman: Noooo! Not like that!!
More people who say it like it is but constantly don’t mean what it sounds like they’re saying.
👌👍. Jackass.
About as convincing as Ray on trailer park boys getting busted for solicitation. "What? Prostitution? That money wasn't for sex! It was for... This is illegal!"
Let the backpedaling begin!
Can you post something like "find out where he lives" on Lemmy?
Let the shareholders see the portfolio of this wankers arrogant comments. Make it impossible to ignore. Make it so all companies, CEOs and executives know that their livelihoods are dependent upon (checks notes) the customers that truly pay their wages.
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Was it meant as a threat to murder them all if they didn't then? Because there's not a lot of other contexts that phrase gets used in.