The late night host announced that his interview with the Texas Senate candidate will only air on YouTube
Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on TV after President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, their affiliates, and local stations.
During his Wednesday monologue, Kimmel said that while Talarico would stop by the show for an interview on Thursday, viewers at home won’t be able to watch it on broadcast television. Instead, the interview with the Democratic nominee has been relegated to YouTube.
“Tomorrow night, I’ll be interviewing James Talarico — tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances,” Kimmel began. “You know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, et cetera, et cetera. I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.”
They said the Dems would,
Take away first amendment,
Nope it was maga
Literal evidence of chilling free speech. He is self censoring in response to threats of legal consequences by the government. It’s the easiest, slam dunk court win on infringing on constitutional rights, but this executive branch and these judges are so extremist that it’s still not a guaranteed win. This election really could be the last chance to reclaim some semblance of freedom.
The Equal Time Rule would require Kimmel to offer to air an equal-time interview to Ken Paxton as well as Talarico. Unless Kimmel’s program is a bona fide news program, which would be exempt from the rule.
Previous administrations adopted a more broad interpretation of “bona fide news program” that included these late night shows that interview guests. Mainly because this rule and the exception are playing with legal fire regarding the first amendment and core political speech.
The Equal Time Rule applies only to over the air broadcasts. YouTube is unregulated on that point.
From how I understand it, the equal time rules gives opposition 7days to request time. It’s not mandatory that the TV station reach out to make it happen.
I say do it. The more time you can put these ghouls in front of people and ask them questions they won’t want to answer the better.
It’s ridiculous that they will consider Jimmy Kimmel a news program but then go call Fox News an entertain ment program.
A few points here:
- Fox News is a cable channel, so it isn’t subject to this rule. The rule only applies over the air.
- Fox News argued in a legal case that one of its talk shows (I think Tucker Carlson) was not news and no one should believe it. I don’t think they were talking about their actual news programs on Fox News.
- The current FCC of this president is arguing that Kimmel is not a news program. Previous FCCs took the opposite view.
I don’t know if it’s the case here, but with Colbert’s identical issue (it was even about Talarico, but during the primaries), Colbert not only had offered, but had actually held 2 interviews with Crockett (Talarico’s primary opponent).
Wait, wtf? I didn’t know it was resurrected as a green slimy zombie. How can the equal time rule apply to comedy but not news? That’s the complete opposite of how it always worked
Why does his thumbnail remind me of the kid from the Andy Griffith show?
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I watch it primarily on YouTube anyways so that works for me.
But still, what a fucking insecure rapist loser trump is.
There seem to be some similarities to the Colbert incident. Talarico? They want to censor Talarico’s views?
It’s the same trick, executed out of the same playbook.
Go to the FCC, say “We’re going to do an interview with a popular candidate for Senate”, get a nastygram from some DOGE staffer back in response, then generate a bunch of attention-grabbing headlines with “The Man Won’t Let Us Interview America’s Coolest Senator on TV so Come See It On Our Website Instead”.
You’re suggesting that this is a stunt by Talarico’s campaign or by Kimmel? You’d sooner believe that both Kimmel and Colbert’s shows would pull the same stunt to boost their YouTube channels than believe trump’s FCC when they say they’re willing to pull broadcast licenses over political discourse?
You’re suggesting that this is a stunt by Talarico’s campaign or by Kimmel?
Kimmel. He’s a hack, so of course he stole Colbert’s bit.
You’d sooner believe that both Kimmel and Colbert’s shows would pull the same stunt to boost their YouTube channels
I think Kimmel’s boosting his own brand because he’s also on his way out.
It can be everything - Kimmel’s people could know that Trump would threaten ABC to not air the interview, allowing them to get more views. Talarico’s team might know that the interview would get canned, giving them more publicity. Trump’s people may be actually trying to suppress Talarico’s team from getting the publicity and totally plan to pull the license. ABC might be aware of all of this and planned to kotow from the beginning.
Who knows?
If that was the playbook why was Colbert’s show cancelled
Jesus Fred Fucking Christ. This is . . . Ugh.
I love how the freedom of speech crowd are the first to deny others th same.
Paradox of Tolerance. Fascists leverage an open society to build political support, then close off the society as soon as they’re in power.
They never mean anything they say, and all their “principles” are just bullshit. They never cared about your freedom of speech. I bet a sizeable amount of BUT MAH FREEZED PEACH asshats would be ecstatic if Jimmy Kimmel were to be given a death sentence for offending the republicons.
Is Kimmel a bitch now? Or is it the owners of the broadcast channel?
So, they’re taping the interview along with the rest of the show’s content, but not broadcasting it? Are they going to show dead air in its place? Or maybe a QR code to the interview, along with a countdown timer? I don’t think even Jimmy has the balls for that, but it would be awesome.
It would be kinda awesome to have an image of Jimmy with duct tape over his mouth with a menacing Trump and Carr behind him and then the message to check YouTube for the actual show/interview where they can’t be censored by Trump (unless he cries to Google, which he might.)
YouTube/Google doesn’t have a broadcast license, so can’t be harassed in quite the same manner by the FCC. Although Google has a history of premature compliance…
I’m pretty sure they always shoot extra and edit down for time.
Lol, look how afraid Dump is
Why not let it play on Hulu then?
The Streisand effect again. I’ve never liked Kimmel. He’s not funny, but here I am reading about him again.
Is there a reason you don’t like him?
He’s not funny. I also never got into John Stewart. I like John Oliver though.
Fair enough, I feel that’s different than not liking someone.
Oh no another anti trans politician doesnt get to be on TV?
Serious question from a trans person, are you going to vote for Ken Paxton? Do you think he’ll be better for us?
Voting for most politicians isn’t easy. Most of them do not have our backs. I am concerned though with good people who should be voting for harm reduction, and then putting all their energy into fighting by other means between elections, not doing that.
I am seeing a lot of people who put their effort into not voting or throwing their vote away, then feeling like they’ve “done something” and not doing anything else between cycles. I don’t know you and I’m not accusing. I’m just curious how yelling about Talrico at this point, helps?
What’s your problem with Talarico? He’s pretty consistently voted against trans athlete bans and strongly supports LGBTQ+ rights in interviews. Why label him anti-trans?
You can wait for your perfect politician while someone else votes in theirs. It’s your right.
Gonna be waiting a long time if you want progressives to win in Texas.
Now we know you’re either directly or indirectly voting for fascism
How embarrassing for you
