Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the statement says.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Let’s go ahead & start calling & boycotting all of NexStar and Sinclair’s advertisers since they decided they aren’t going to have Kimmel back.
https://www.distractify.com/p/how-to-boycott-sinclair-broadcast-group
“OK, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel,” he wrote on Facebook. “The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or sometime this week. 3. Note the companies that bought TV adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.”
“Trust me. I worked in TV for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing,” he continued. “This is a much more effective tool than cancelling Disney. We did cancel Disney but calling Joe’s Jeep dealership who is buying adds on the local Nexstar station will have a BIG impact. Joe doesn’t need that grief. He will find another station to buy adverts on.”
Also, they are fascists & deserve to be destroyed anyhow.
Disney grew a spine?
Too little too late, sorry.No they started losing money they still don’t really care
Key now is getting back to tying Trump to Epstein and Maxwell and call for the unaltered release of the Epstein files which was HIS OWN BROKEN PROMISE.
Keep pushing this message as it is one of the only messages that has induced a modicum of doubt in his core base, let alone swing-voters.
His approval-ratings have now fallen to Jimmy Carter levels, and we can get lower.
When TV’s tamest talkshow host gets his show banned, you know we’re in dystopian times.
So much for all the fascist right’s posturing on “free speech” lol
Freedom warriors scared of a comedian.
They know the tremendous power of strong propaganda, they have been developing the Conservative Propaganda Machine for decades.
They see this Blue Line at 11:30 pm, following the local news, and they know that even MAGAs, who tuned away from Fox News for a half hour to hear what happened in town, might accidentally end up staying tuned in, and hearing Colbert and Kimmel making fun of him.
They are far more than just comedians, they are chipping away at the wall in the brains of MAGA citizens. Every night they expose him for the buffoon he is, and eventually he is going to do something that even their MAGA followers think is buffoonery, and an entire brick will fall out of the wall. Once that happens, steady pressure will eventually make it crumble.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine understands all of this, and more. They have data tracking behavioral responses going back decades, and they have ALWAYS been hostile to the late night talk shows. Rather than adjust their behavior to reflect the rest of society, and thus avoid humiliation for their poor decisions, they would rather kill the messenger.
They always are. Mel Brooks pointed that out years ago.
He might be tame but he leans liberal and that can’t be allowed because it hurts MAGA sensitive feelings. The lessons here is that MAGA positions immediately collapse under any sort of criticism or examination.
Never mind the hateful content Fox spews out 24/7.
Blah blah we want your money blah blah.
Exactly
Fuck em, arrr
They can die. I only pirate content from them, will never pay a dime.
I wrote a very angry letter, letting them know that I was switching my news source, cancelling Hulu, and in the future, I would pirate their content, and watch it without commercials.
That’s three revenue-sucking situations that every network hates, and it worked, they caved.
I also told them that I expect them to hold the line on free speech, and if Trump threatens to remove their FCC license, dare him to do it. That FCC license gives them a responsibility to this nation. Folding like they tried to do is unacceptable.
So you saved jimmy’s show?
Yep, single-handedly.
No, of course not. But ALL corporations understand that one person that takes the time to write a coherent, logical letter, and doesn’t threaten sexual violence against their daughters and elderly relatives, represent, and are speaking for, a very large number of people who are just sitting at home, pissed off and talking to their families.
Get enough of those letters, and the data analysis people in Marketing start getting extremely nervous. That’s what happened here. In fact, the walls crumbled so quickly, that they must have received an overwhelming amount of angry communications.
I believe the implication was that a significant amount of other people also did this.
No, thats fairm i was needlessly pointing out how it seemed like they were taking credit for the whole thing. It was supposed to be a joke but looking back, it wasn’t very funny.
Also like why does the FCC license even matter anymore? For the three people left still watching ABC over the air?
I kinda wish Kimmel had told them to get fucked and went somewhere else, or started his own podcast.
We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy
You mean conversations with your lawyers. I’m sure Kimmel was lawyering up for breach of contract.
Kimmel would have been okay, but by some estimates there are as many as 200 staff members out of their job, and he’d never be able to take all of them with him. As cathartic it would have been to see him levave Disney, staying was the best option for his team.
Meanwhile, over at CBS, a similar staff are all out of jobs.
And making it even harder would’ve been the fact that he makes it well known a significant portion of the people working on his show are members of his family.
I agree. “Yeah Disney, this is the consequence of your actions. Get fucked. Enjoy sucking Trump’s dick.” Would have been much better.
Well, now let’s see what Jimmy Kimmel does. Will he come back toning down his rhetoric or will he start by thoroughly criticizing Kirk and Disney right as he gets back. I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this, he will always weigh the consequences of saying something before saying it (even subconsciously). And in that case, he is not worth watching.
I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this
He could intentionally avoid mentioning it while an elephant slowly wanders around behind him.
You could write for the show.
Money, that’s our only way of influence.
Yes, this really isn’t difficult, or shouldn’t be, but Americans are incredibly addicted to convenience. I’ve been saying for years now that we don’t even need a general strike of workers not working, people simply need to stop being good little consumers for a while, only buy the essentials when necessary, cancel all extraneous services, stop using the fascists’ platforms. In a consumer economy, consumers hold the cards, but unfortunately we’ve been trained well and think we cannot live without 37 different streaming services and food and whatever else you want delivered to your door, and then need to post about it all on TwitFaceAgram after a post about corporate 'Merica run amok.
I’ve been doing this since the Inauguration.
A large enough percentage of the population buying only necessities local goods would get Trump ousted.
Keep. On. Boycotting.
They’re are just in PR damage control, they have not fired a single person or told Sinclair/Nextstar to fire those who actively voice support for fascism.
Sinclair is the one that needs to hurt at the moment since they refuse to run the show, let sponsors know you’re unhappy
Kimmel didn’t make any “Charlie Kirk comments”
He made fun of Trump for not giving a shit about Kirk’s death because he couldn’t get over his 8 year old equivalent impulse control to start bragging about the monstrosity they built on top of the Rose Garden at the White House.
Holy shit, so much this!
It’s honestly wild how far that narrative that he made some edgy comments has gone, to the point where it’s just being taken as fact in headlines now.
He barely even mentioned Kirk, and just stated that MAGA is trying really hard to claim the shooter was not one of them–didn’t even make any assertions about the actual shooter or their motives.
Anyone claiming he made disrespectful or inflammatory comments about Kirk is ignorant or a hypocrite.
The monologue will be fire.
Indeed! But since it’s Kimmel we’ll have to wait and see if it’s funny.
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Capitalists are incapable of thinking beyond the end of the current quarter
Is this even thinking in this quarter? It just feels like a mistake.
Edit:to be clear the suspension feels like a mistake.
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I hate to open up this particular can of worms, but if you’re a “staunch capitalist,” why the hell are you here of all places?
They’re a troll, and you’re falling for it.
Sounds like they are an “someday ill have enough money to have my boot on their throats instead” capitalist, i.e a helpful fool.
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I only wish I could have come up with something more dismissive in the moment
In my opinion I don’t think some of the things you’re saying show good understanding of capitalism. I’m not saying this to offend or belittle.
Tbf they didn’t say they’re a good capitalist, just a staunch one.
Goodhart’s Law in action
I think they thought they could get away with it, like when they fired Colbert. Maybe Colbert worked because it was a year away?
In case anyone hasn’t seen this, I’m posting it again. Here is what Kimmel did that was so wrong. He showed trump completely not care about kirk’s death.
Starts at about 2 minutes.
Video of monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk
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That’s how liberalism transforms into fascism. Eventually the dictator bites the hand that feeds him, and the short-sighted business folks are shocked.
Disney is trying to get a monster merger pushed through. And here’s the Chairman of the FCC directly threatening them?
It wasn’t Disney who have the merger, it was NexStar, an owner of some 39% of local TV stations, that’s trying to merge with another company to control 80% of local stations. Current law dictates the limit to 39%, so the federal government has them over a barrel. After the FCC chairman directly told them what to do on a podcast, Nexstar did exactly that and threatened to refuse to air Kimmel if Disney didn’t kill the show. Disney did, and now they’ve capitulated to an actual massive groundswell of Disney+ cancelations. Thus the flip-flop.
So not only was there blatant corruption in both the private and public sector in a more or less open conspiracy to give a bribe to allow a violation of federal law, but by saying what he said, the FCC chairman also pretty clearly violated the first amendment of the constitution of the US.
Colbert was given most of a season to carry on and all involved had a long time to figure out options, and there weren’t explicit overt threats from government. “How bad could it be if they are letting him keep saying everything he wants for months?”. Also people looking to to throw money at South Park which was been gloves off against Trump.
Kimmel was sudden and with direct specific threats from the government during such a contentuous time.
Target did the same thing. They pissed off both sides and have been hurting for quite a while now.
I am out of the loop (by which I mean hi from Europe), what did target do?
Target was a big proponent of DEI and LGBTQ+. It was part of the brand and hiring practices. Then, after the orange plauge was inaugurated, they switched their tune. Tgey dropped all their DEI policies and all LGBTQ marketing.
They are down 50% this year.
Target was showing its true colors long before getting rid of DEI practices. Like at one point they had a gay pride line that really just felt like grift then some people took offense to it and they put it all on clearance and moved it to a remote corner of the store. This was soon after unveiling it, not after it sat there a while. Its no wonder they acted the way they did. They just saw liberals and progressives as a way to profit. People got tired of the grift with no real championship towards better attitudes and practices to minorities and boycotted them hard.
Voting with our wallets seems to be the only voting that is actually effective lately. Hopefully, people will continue to vote against these types of business practices.
Disney could have just looked at Target as an example of exactly why they shouldn’t have done this.
That’s exactly what happened to Bud Light. Bigots hated that BL was partnering with a filthy trans person, and when they caved to the pressure everyone else said “fuck you” but the bigots didn’t all come back. It’s kind of like Target as well. Present this image of being for the minorities, and then caving under the smallest amount of pressure pissing off everyone.
It’s definitely opportunistic backpedalling, but it’s a good sign of sorts: We’ve proven that, if we can punish them financially, they’ll do the right thing. For the wrong reasons, obviously, but in these times, I’ll take what we can get.
What were they thinking in the first place?
FCC threatened to take their licence. They’ll force Kimmel to say “we don’t know if he was maga” or something and everything continues on eggshells.
I have a feeling Kimmel isn’t going to be forced to say anything. He (rightfully) despises Trump with every fiber of his soul and would probably choose to stay off the air rather than bend the knee in any way.
I think you’re lionizing Kimmel a bit too much, he just said a few obvious jokes that was likely written by his writing staff. He didn’t say anything brave.
"we’re still trying to wrap our heads around the senseless murder of the popular podcaster and conservative activist Charlie Kirk yesterday… Some people are cheering this, which is something I won’t ever understand.”
Those who hate Trump and his rhetoric immediately understand why Nazi fascist deaths are celebrated. They don’t describe them as senseless while heaping unnecessary praise on them. “Popular activist”? How about racist fascist propagandist?
He’ll toe the line after this correction. Ping me with his return monologue if I’m wrong.
The FCC doesn’t license network afaik, they license stations (eg nexstar) which pressured the network.
They think all the people will return. I’m planning to not resume the service unless Iger and the board of directors changes.
We have no values except for that which we think in the moment will make us the most money, and we hope the customers agree
They were thinking of all of the dollars they just got from the centrists who renewed their subscriptions because victory fascism defeated! But im probably being too cynical about it
Except I’m not resubscribing Disney.
That’s not how it works.
You haven’t felt the pain of freedom of my wallet.
If you don’t resubscribe, then you can’t unsubscribe the next time!
I really hope you’re trying to be funny.
It’s the only ring these companies understand.
If there’s no one left who gives a shit they can do whatever they like and won’t feel any pain next time.
The people have some power with their wallet by only if they use it.
You’re under no moral obligation to resubscribe at all, but if nobody does, they made a financial mistake by putting the show back on the air.
Financial mistake? Putting the show back on slows the bleeding, so they don’t lose even more subscribers. Seems like the wise choice (after the dumb choice that preceded it).
If there’s no one left who gives a shit they can do whatever they like and won’t feel any pain next time.
Are you serious? If they don’t have subscribers, they can do whatever they want? I mean sure, but who gives a shit, they don’t make money because they don’t have any customers!
You don’t give them more money so you can take it away later, that’s idiotic. Spend your money on a decent VPN and torrent that shit, or read books instead of consuming so much corporate capitalist empire propaganda, your life will be better anyway.
If they don’t have subscribers, they can do whatever they want?
If they don’t have any people who give a shit as subscribers they can do what they want. They can go batshit insane alt right loony neo nazi with no further penalty, indeed, if they’re pretty much the only subscribers, there’s a financial benefit to go further magat and a loss to do otherwise. And your daughter well plead with you to get disney so she can watch pretty princesses and if you cave, then your son will grow up racist.
When fox pulls this shit they are fine, because sane people aren’t watching anyway. The only reason disney backed down is that it hurt them. If no one goes back, it can’t possibly hurt them a second time.
But absolutely you sold do what toy want with your money and if this was a permanent deal breaker for you, go ahead and permanently reject them. I’m OK with that, really, but I can’t pretend that you’ll have ongoing influence on their future decision making at the same time.
No the finanical mistake was the beginning. Eroding the goodwill people had for your company was the mistake. Rebuilding that will bring back the money.
You’re right of course.
Alternate headline: “Disney losing money, back pedaling”
