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.”
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Capitalists are incapable of thinking beyond the end of the current quarter
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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?
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I only wish I could have come up with something more dismissive in the moment
They’re a troll, and you’re falling for it.
The very sad thing is that I don’t think this absolute fool isn’t a troll at all. I think they mean what they say, which is undeniably worse
Nah, I do think they’re just saying whatever will get a rise out of people.
Either way, the only winning move is to ignore them.
Is your username a Dr. Strangelove reference? Love that movie
Can you explain? What “here” are we all at that capitalists should know they aren’t welcome at?
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.
Is this even thinking in this quarter? It just feels like a mistake.
Edit:to be clear the suspension feels like a mistake.
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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Disney is trying to get a monster merger pushed through. And here’s the Chairman of the FCC directly threatening them?
That’s how liberalism transforms into fascism. Eventually the dictator bites the hand that feeds him, and the short-sighted business folks are shocked.
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.
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.
Target did the same thing. They pissed off both sides and have been hurting for quite a while now.
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.
They think all the people will return. I’m planning to not resume the service unless Iger and the board of directors changes.
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.
The FCC doesn’t license network afaik, they license stations (eg nexstar) which pressured the network.
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.
I’ve watched it. He described Kirk as a young man, choked up while pronouncing violence is never an answer, and praised Howard Stern as a role model of his.
You think that’s brave in the face of Nazis?
And talked shit about the administration the whole time, which is what this was about in the first place.
Yet he went on and on about how wonderful the Nazis in his life are and how much he loves and looks up to them.
You felt it was adequate? You were satisfied just because he made fun of Trump and his administration?
Normalizing peace with Nazis and denouncing violence as a solution isn’t brave, would have been better to just be quiet. The country needs a revolution, not normalizing hanging out and loving Nazis. Cut the cancer out, these people need to be cast out of society, not praised and consoled when their own actions catch up to them.
First they came for the communists and all that… When they come to you, they’ll be no one left because you decided to have dinner parties with the Nazis.
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
Kimmel didn’t even talk about Kirk’s death outside of stating that the right is trying their best to milk it as much as possible which is saying nothing about Kirk. He never commented on Kirk as a person, at least not as far as I know of.
Exactly. This was a non-apology and Kimmel wasn’t the one who needed talking to, I hope he doesn’t tone down his monologues one iota.
Keep the boycott on.
He actually put out a message before this saying that it was a horrible thing that happened and he and his family were sending their deepest sympathies to the Kirk family.
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
Too late, fuckers. Subscription is staying cancelled and I’m not coming back.
Jimmy Kimmel Live posts their monologue to YouTube every night, so you can still enjoy it.
Don’t forget your best friend uBlock Origin (or ReVanced or Tubular or whatever other YT ad blocker you like) when you watch, just to make sure they don’t even get ad revenue from you
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.
Alternate headline: “Disney losing money, back pedaling”
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.
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.
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).
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.
That’s a bummer for them, Ive already canceled my account and ordered a nice NAS setup and Plex.
Plex bad. Jellyfin good.
Can it be used with FreeBSD?
It’s been a while since I meddled with FreeBSD. It shouldn’t be hard - it’s just a web stack with some command line ffmpeg. I think the only thing that might be a challenge is hardware encoding.
There are sweet docker images, but I guess they might require virtualization on FreeBSD.
You should be able to find instructions. I had it in a jail in my truenas before I went scale.
Trying to rewrite history huh - they suspended the show because Kimmel criticised Trump, and the FCC threatened ABC/DIsney. Never forget.
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.
Money, that’s our only way of influence.
Holy shit boycotting works?
if it happens yes, the problem with boycotting is most people online who say they will boycott something usually don’t, or they weren’t using it in the first place.
this is especially true for games
It’s been sixteen fucking years.
it’s just a perfect picture. but this regularly happens in games. gAmErS are the worst bunch in boycotts because most of them don’t even have the discipline to wait for a fucking game to release let alone not play it at all. they just either “boycott” games they were never interested in at all in the first place or they just say it online for fake internet points and play the game anyway.
Isn’t that the reason Target is a fucking metronome on social issues?
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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.
Sept 17th.
Nexstar and Sinclair television station owners condem Kimmel’s statements. They planned to preempt his show replacing it with other programming.
Nexstar ABC Affiliates To Preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Indefinitely Beginning Tonight
ABC decides to suspend Kimmel’s show indefinitely due to the backlash.
Here is the question. If ABC/Disney reinstate his show, will Nexstar or Sinclair follow through on their promise to preempt his show when it airs effectively killing any ad revenue?
Edit addendum: Sinclair Will Not Air ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Upon ABC Return Tuesday
That’s gonna make it hard to sell ad space on the next upfronts.
