FCC Chairman Uses Charlie Kirk's Death To Pull Jimmy Kimmel Off Air

The President and his hench-people have successfully pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Kimmel, a longtime Trump critic, has faced increased scrutiny by Trump and his loyalists. This culminated this week when Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Kimmel had shown some of the sickest conduct possible with his statements involving the recently killed right wing personality, Charlie Kirk.

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We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

When I got up this morning, I didn't know it was gonna be one of those days. We were putting the show together and we stumbled across this Tucker Carlson video. I want you to see it for yourselves.

You hope that Charlie Kirk's death won't be used by a group we now call bad actors to create a society that was the opposite of the one he worked to build. You hope that. You hope that a year from now the turmoil we're seeing in the aftermath of his murder won't be leverage to bring hate speech laws to this country. And trust me, if it is, if that does happen, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that, ever, and there never will be because if they can tell you what to say, they're telling you what to think. There is nothing they can't do to you because they don't consider you human. They don't believe you have a soul, a human being with a soul, a free man has a right to say what he believes, not to hurt other people, but to express his view.

There you have it, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson making a coherent and accurate point about the Trump administration. This comes in response to the President and his hench-people who have successfully pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Kimmel, a longtime Trump critic, has faced increased scrutiny by Trump and his loyalists. This culminated this week when Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Kimmel had shown some of the sickest conduct possible with his statements involving the recently killed right wing personality, Charlie Kirk. Carr has doubled down on his statement saying the FCC was not done yet making changes to the media ecosystem.

But I do think that, again, we are in the midst of a massive shift in dynamics in the media ecosystem for lots of reasons, again, including the permission structure that President Trump's election has provided. And I would simply say we're not done yet with seeing the consequences of that shift.

Well, what does that mean when you say you're not done yet, then? Will you only be pleased when none of these comedians have a show on broadcast television?

No. Again, it's not about any particular show or any particular person. It's just we're in the midst of a very disruptive moment right now, and I just frankly expect that we're gonna continue to see changes in the media ecosystem.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was canceled by CBS earlier this year. Notably, CBS's parent company, Paramount, paid $16 million to Donald Trump as part of a settlement, then had its multi-billion dollar merger approved by the Trump administration. The day Kimmel show was pulled indefinitely, an ABC news reporter asked Trump about Pam Bondi's intention to go after hate speech. The 79-year-old notoriously thin-skinned Trump responded.

And what do you think of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? Is that, I mean, a lot of people, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech.

We'd probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they'll come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me $16 million recently for a form of hate speech. Right? Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech. So maybe they'll have to go after you.