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Sinclair Says Kimmel Suspension is Not Enough, Calls on FCC and ABC to Take Additional Action
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Damn, I miss the Fairness Doctrine.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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Sinclair’s ABC stations will air a special in remembrance of Charlie Kirk this Friday, during Jimmy Kimmel Live’s timeslot. The special will also air across all Sinclair stations this weekend.
What the actual fuck...
I dont even need to click and I know what this is:
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy”
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THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO OUR DEMOCRACY
Pretty much over now. Good luck.
You can't give these traitors a single inch or they'll be back for more.
Colbert down. Kimmel down.
I can’t wait until they all get replaced with Comrade Noem’s Ultra Funny Late Night Ha Ha Joke Show where you will laugh or go to gulag.
Prep yourself for the late show with Greg Gutfeld and the late late show with Joe Rogan.
Oh I forgot about Rogan… that.. that might actually happen ☹️
We believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue
This coming from Sinclair is the fucking height of hypocrisy and just plain lying.
need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks."
Says the conglomerate de jure owning 39% of all local tv stations in the country and de facto controlling at least double that by exploiting a loophole in antitrust regulations.
Sinclair also calls upon Mr. Kimmel to issue a direct apology to the Kirk family. Furthermore, we ask Mr. Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA.
Trying to bully and blackmail him into lying for and paying money to their fascist overlords. Sinclair is a fucking cancer.
Video of monologue. Kimmel's comments are at about 2 minutes.
Yeah, I was expecting an understandable slip-up in (I dunno) quoting Kirk's own hateful opinions. But no, it doesn't even remotely address Kirk's death, or make inopportune comments. It's about Trump's absolutely transparent lie and his comedically inept use of Kirk as a martyr. There is literally nothing here.
Of course, we recall Trump said Kimmel was "next" in public comments after Colbert was canceled. The conclusion we - living in this mafia-run fascist government bizarro reality - can draw is that these affiliate owners took Trump's direction and attacked the one Trump directed them to at their earliest convenience, cause and reason be damned.
Really, he didn’t even say anything that Kash Patel and the governor of Utah didn’t already say (“praying it wasn’t one of us”), he just said it as a humorous joke on prime time TV, instead of pathetic jokes during press conferences.
I'd like these dipshits to explain to the American people just what is so offensive to them. Free speech?
They’re mad because we wouldn’t support them when they punched down. When they shit on LGBTQA+ people, or women, or PoC and we said “you’re gross” and “freeze peach!”
So now they’re trying to pretend this is “retribution” even though Charlie Kirk was an asshole who deserves to be mocked and cancelled for the bullshit downpunching he spewed, and in this specific instance Trump is mad he got called out for being heartless and the right got called out for foaming at the mouth for genocide of those who don’t agree with them.
Those two things are not equivalent. They just want an excuse to kill and exclaim “look what you made me do!”
Yes. They've always wanted to be able to tell you you're not allowed to say things they don't like, and now they think they can get away with making it happen. They can't, in the long run, but they might be able to make some people suffer in the short run before they get consigned to the historical ash-bin.
What's weird is that they want to ruin the entertainment that others enjoy.
We don't send people to SisterFuck, Arkansas or wherever the fuck and try to end their pastimes. They can still go to the tractor pull or listen to bad country music or go hunting and fishing, watch NASCAR, etc....
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
We no longer have a Democracy.
How DARE Jimmy Kimmel ~~ADVOCATE for the Murdering of Poor People!~~ Play clips of Trump talking!
Sinclair also calls upon Mr. Kimmel to issue a direct apology to the Kirk family. Furthermore, we ask Mr. Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA.
Man go fuck yourself
Here's the broadcast, if anyone wants to put these "inappropriate and deeply insensitive" remarks in the context of what he actually said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk
That little shitbag's family doesn't need a single penny.
Kirks family got well over 5 million already from a gofundme. As if Kirks family was poor. Kirk was worth over 12 million, as a 32 year old. They dont need to go begging.
Grifters gonna grift
Hey if stupid people who have way less money want to give them money I guess. I wish I didn't have morals
agreed, having no morals, empathy, or sense of justice would be so much easier. Lower intelligence also seems to work out reasonably well. If you gave people a slider which traded off looks for intellect, I wonder what society would be like.
Dingdingding winner.
I heard he suggested to give Kimmel a 'involuntary lethal injection' or 'just kill him'.
Newspapers, networks, Twitter, TikTok. Old media and new media alike. YouTube and Facebook are already doing their work for them. What's left? Seriously, what's left? NBC? The Atlantic? Rolling Stone? It's only been 8 months. It won't be long before they're made to fall in line too.
Once the fascists finish capturing all major media, they'll begin turning the screws even tighter while they attempt to capture or bankrupt minor media. Guess what, NBC is owned by Comcast, which is ran by a billionaire. The Atlantic is owned by a multi-billionaire. Rolling Stone's owner is worth a quarter billion dollars. Ultimately they'll play ball just like all the other lords and ladies have thus far.
They're going to take down a major broadcast network, and make another fascist mouthpiece from the ashes.
Told everybody that Sinclair needed to get dealt with 10 years ago. My representatives apparently don't read the innernette
How do you read the Internet? It's a series of tubes!!
If he manages to get back on air he should just change the format and constantly give sarcastic praise to dear leader like the old Colbert show from the Comedy Central days.
Any network with balls will have a cash cow on their hands if they swoop in and offer kimmel a show right now
The best gift a fascist propagandist could possibly give the world is dying young.
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By 2026 network TV will just be the new Hee Haw.
Wait, so us Kimmel not cancelled, Sinclaire is just, not ajring it?
Both. Sinclair won't air it, so ABC has suspended production. In theory, ABC could've had it keep airing on non-Sinclair affiliates, but they'd be biting the hand that feeds to do so.
ABC should have pulled Sinclair's license to its content for not complying with the contract.
From ABC's perspective, that is not any better. If their programming isn't on air, they're not making advertising dollars. Whether it's because Sinclair chose not to show their programming or ABC chose not to let Sinclair show their programming, the end result is the same: no advertising dollars, and Kimmel still isn't on TV.
Who is buying time on Sinclair networks? They need to be losing business for supporting fascism.
Sinclair owns a huge chunk of the stations in the US. And control others through shell corpos to get around the rules for limits in some cases.
You seriously dont know who Sinclair media is? In 2025? You've definitely seen this.
I know exactly who they are, I want a list of their clients.
There needs to be consequences for these stains on humanity
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