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.”
Kimmel should’ve called his bluff and done it anyway.
Don’t kowtow to these cowards.
Maybe, to me this reads as strategic from Disney lawers to clearly establish active and ongoing harm for the lawsuit they’re in with the administration right now.
Sit there for 20 minutes repeating “Trump wouldn’t allow this to be broadcast, here’s what to search for on YouTube.”
Every time you obey these fascists in any way, it empowers them. While I appreciate his sensitivity towards the local networks (not so much towards ABC), every time you cave to these shits, it empowers them even more.
He missed an opportunity to create a lot more enemies for this administration. Everyone public figure should be giving a defiant middle finger to them. Trey and Matt did it and they’re billionaires for it.
Trey and Matt own South
ParkAmerica. I’m pretty sure Kimmel doesn’t own his Late Show, which is why he has to walk a tightropeBut more people are going to watch it now
It’s not up to Kimmel
[edit: whoops, thread has already come and gone anyway lol, feel free to ignore, I’d just delete (my own comment) cuz useless but that feels sneaky and weird]
Kinda is if Kimmel says “I’m not coming to work anymore until that goes on the air”
What is the edit about? Did something happen?
Haha totally sounds that way, my bad! Nah I just have a tendency to come along commenting on stale ass threads is all, just indicating I did that here.
I see. No worries.
You’d be surprised. Some of the more active threads will keep getting new comments for a few days. This one is only 15 hours old and still near the top of All-Active.
Yeah, cuz of dorks like me and the ensuing “discussion” 😂
Nah all jokes aside I get it, it’s not that fast paced and it’s a small place. I sometimes do it way more awkwardly but this wasn’t really that, you right.
Only way is elbows up. Give the bully a bloody nose. It doesn’t matter if you lose. He’ll think twice next time and you might inspire others to stand up too.