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.”
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.
“Look, I am not too happy about Jimmy Kimmel’s sentence, I think it is a bit harsh. but still agree with this administration on how they are handling other issues”
Yup. It’s the same way they talk about the “mean tweets”.
They said the Dems would,
Take away first amendment,
Nope it was maga
Haiku in the wild
Almost!
You mean the free speech people are going to end free speech? Never!
You mean the Don’t Tread On Me group are going to take a woman’s right to choose away? Never!
You mean the anti-pedophile movement is going to protect pedophiles? Never!
You mean a corrupt businessman is going to enrich himself through the presidency? Never!
You mean the guy that wants to go to Mars is actually a space Nazi? Never!
Shit gets old after awhile.
Lol, look how afraid Dump is
There seem to be some similarities to the Colbert incident. Talarico? They want to censor Talarico’s views?
Makes sense to me! As opposed to the fake Christians and Christofascists, here you have a real Christian and a more or less Christosocialist
is your name a reference to the game or the candy?
Neither 😂 Just random
Makes sense to me! As opposed to the fake Christians and Christofascists, here you have a real Christian and a more or less Christosocialist
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?
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?
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.
If that was the playbook why was Colbert’s show cancelled
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.
I watch it primarily on YouTube anyways so that works for me.
But still, what a fucking insecure rapist loser trump is.
I can’t tell if this is a Talarico/Dem stunt or if the republicans are really that dense and don’t understand the Streisand effect.
The same thing happened earlier this year with Colbert interviewing a political candidate
The same candidate! It was also Talarico.
I know that’s why it’s confusing.
His poll numbers skyrocket after that incident. He got a lot of free publicity as the “candidate republicans fear most”.
And then they decided “fuck it let’s do that again???”
The right thinks they have a bulletproof propaganda machine with their captive media.
or if the republicans are really that dense and don’t understand the Streisand effect.
That’s where I’m putting my bet.
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.
I encourage everyone to go watch it
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.
onto the web it goes, then
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.
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.
Fox News was conceived and designed deliberately to exploit this loophole in American law.
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.
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?
Jesus Fred Fucking Christ. This is . . . Ugh.
