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what would provide democrats and media, but I repeat myself
the pivot that they need to get off of this
Charlie Kirk assassination news cycle because it is not going
well for them, Okay. And I've seen people like, oh
my gosh, when are they gonna stop talking about this?
And I've seen stuff like that from of your never
Trump Republicans, the ones who had their brains broken by
Donald Trump eight years ago or a decade ago now,
I guess, as well as people on the political left.
And so this story about Jimmy Kimmel is a welcome
pivot that they have been looking for so they can
deflect attention from the awkward story in the news cycle
that they cannot muster an adequate response to They have
been completely unable to meet the moment required of them,
and so this is now going to be their opportunity
to try to assert themselves as the morally superior people.
And ah, free speech. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
he's being silenced in all of this. So, according to
The New York Post, Jimmy Kimmel is quote absolutely bleeping
livid over ABC's decision to acts his his late night
talk show following backlash to his remarks over Charlie Kirk's assassination.
While President Trump cheered the move as great news for America. Now,
I don't know if they actually axed the show. And
I'm using the word ax as like definitionally it means.
I'm not using it as like a surrogate word for ask,
because that's a whole different word. So I'm saying ax X,
not ask. They're different words. Okay, So I thought they
just put him on an indefinite suspension, which kind of
sounds almost like you've been fired, but trust me, it's not.
You haven't been fired with an indefinite suspension. And there
was a report let me see if I can pull
it up here. Please forgive me, because I am on
remote and so I am technologically impaired to a certain degree,
so I cannot provide these aimless, flawless broadcasting segues and
such that I am accustomed to and you are accustomed
to as well. Yeah, no, I don't have it. But
it was a it was a blurb that I saw
and that's the technical name for it from the Hollywood Reporter.
Wait a minute, did I print it out? No? I
did not print it out. The Hollywood Reporter publication that
said he and I'm going from memory here, but I'll
confirm during the break that he was not going to
apologize for lying on his show on Monday Night, because
that's that's what started all of this, was he lied
on his show on Monday Night during his monologue about
the shooter's motives, and he called the shooter a maga guy.
And that's not true. And in fact, we knew that
wasn't true when Kimmel made those remarks, right, And so
according to the Hollywood Reporter, they said that he was
not going to apologize, but he would simply go out
and offer context or something, and that appears to be
why they had put him on suspension. In addition too,
and I think this is actually more important, which was
that you had the affiliates all around the country, the
two big ones. Oh, I do have it here, Ah,
look at that here it is. A source tells The
Hollywood Reporter that Kimmel was prepared to address the backlash
on Wednesday night's show. He planned to explain what he
said and demonstrate how it was taken out of context.
When asked by The Hollywood Reporter, the source said that
Kimmel was not planning on apologizing. He felt that what
he said did not require an apology. Okay, so there's that.
That's the Hollywood Reporter. Now, what he said was not
taken out of context. The language was very clear, although
it's not clear to a lot of our friends on
the left and in the media. But again I repeat
myself to the this is Dylan Byers, the founder of
Puck News. That's with a p people, that's with a
p okay to the news outlets stating that Jimmy Kimmel
suggested the suspect was a mega Republican suggested he did
not suggest anything. Dylan Byers says to them, saying that
Kimmel suggested the suspect was a Maga Republican. I strongly
encourage you to watch the actual clip and see if
you still think that's the case. Well, I have watched
the clip, and here's the transcript of what he said.
What Kimmel said, quote. We hit 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. That is factually not true. He
is not a quote Mega Gang one of them members.
We knew this on Monday. Kimmel and his writers should
have known it, and the fact that he would not
apologize but thought, oh well, I'll just come out and just,
you know, give an explanation to explain what I said,
and demonstrated how it's being taken out of context. It's
not being taken out of context. It's very clear what
you said. You're saying that he was a Maga guy,
that a Maga guy killed Charlie Kirk, and everybody in Maga.
I can tell you everyone in Maga did not think
that it was one of them that did this. John Gabriel,
a writer, says, I just feel terrible for the left
because apparently murdering Charlie Kirk is not going well for them. Yeah,
I'm sorry, that was the wrong Hang on, there you go. Now.
I have been informed that Russ, who gave me this
rimshot machine, also has an applause button on it, but
he says it is it's less than it's less than optimal.
It's kind of underwhelming, but it may provide like an
extra one to two percent humor to the jokes now,
mainly because it is so underwhelming. I don't know. I
haven't run the numbers on that, but it sounds right. Apparently,
Jimmy Kimmel is also reportedly p oed. He's very mad,
and he is meeting with the network. I heard Vince
Cokeley reporting also on his show that some breaking news
was that Kimmel is trying to now find a way
out of his contract to break to finally, you know,
break bonds with ABC. This is the final straw. I'm
not doing this anymore. And one producer told The Daily
Mail this is clearly the government overreaching. There's no such
thing as free speech in America, if the government can
lean on companies to stop any content they don't like. Well,
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stations all around the country, and some of those stations
are located in markets that are pretty conservative that voted
for Trump. They're not happy, the audience is not happy,
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and people are saying this is a free speech issue,
and the government leaned on the broadcaster and ABC and
it's on by Disney, and so now the left is like,
boycott Disney, and conservatives are like, yes, I'm not sure
you guys have thought this through. Yeah, this is terrible
for Disney because they've angered one half of the country
with their content. Now they're angering the other half of
the country because they've put content out there that then
got them canceled by their affiliates. And here's the deal.
You've got these companies that own local TV stations, and
the big ones are Next Star Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting.
And if the name Sinclair rings a bell, it's probably
because they've been attacked for years by the left. Remember
they were the ones that put out. They started doing
nightly opinion reads opinion pieces where the hosts would read
something from Sinclair Broadcasting, and this then prompted outrage because
Sinclair's ownership is apparently not of the left. So these
two media companies said, look, we cannot keep selling this product,
which is not doing very well in the ratings now
is being the advertisers on our local stations don't want
to be associated with this content, and so we're not
going to carry the show anymore. And they have every
right to do that. By the way, the local affiliates
have every right to do that. And you may not
like that, but if you don't like it, what was
it that the left told us, start your own social
media company, then, right, that's what they said when conservatives
were complaining for years about being deplatformed, having their content throttled,
getting kicked off of social media sites, and the left
kept telling us, that's just the free market, you free
market proponents, that's just the free market. If you don't
like it, start your own Twitter, start your own Facebook.
So some conservatives, you'll recall, actually did do that very thing.
They started gab, they started parlor, they started locals, they
started Rumble, and then what did the left do well?
They then targeted through the administration. They then targeted I
think gab has been completely collapsed because they they had
Amazon take them off of the off of the internet,
I mean talk about the platform, and they just nuked
the whole site. I think it was or maybe yet,
I don't know which one still around. They led which
hunts against anybody who donated to gab as part of
their Kickstarter campaign to fundraise to get them capital to
start it up, and they pitched themselves as a free
speech platform alternative to Twitter. This is obviously way before
Elon Musk bought it. And you'll recall our own local
congressman Dan Bishop gave like I think he donated five
hundred dollars or something to the kickstarter campaign, and then
that was used against Dan Bishop saying he fund did
a Nazi propaganda social media side or something like that
because he donated before the site ever launched. He donated
to help raise money for an alternative to Twitter, which
is exactly what you told us we needed to do
because you kept banning people on Twitter, and you did
it through these government agencies and NGOs that said they
were in the business of quote, fighting disinformation and disinformation
is anything we don't agree with, is anything against the
COVID shots is like all of these things. You guys
have been engaged in this behavior for a decade at
least at least and now you're mad at cancel culture.
Now you're mad that a cancel campaign has come for
Jimmy Kimmel, who was apparently like the worst of the
hosts in Late Night. I never watched his show, so
I guess I'm among the vast majority of Americans there
never watched his program. He was I think third in
the ratings, behind a guy who's already been told his
contract is not going to be renewed and they're going
to blow up the whole show altogether. And we talked
about this with Stephen Colbert when they announced he was
when they were going to cancel that show and leave
him on the air through what May of next year
or something that time slot for television for broadcast network TV.
It has been declining in viewership. People don't watch the
product any longer. It doesn't serve the purpose. You know
what the purpose originally was was for people to fall
asleep watching that show and then wake up the next morning,
and the TV would already be on that channel, so
you would watch the morning shows. That was the idea
is you have the show last people put it on
as they go to bed, read a book or whatever,
and they have it on and then they fall asleep,
and then they wake up and they watch your channel
the next morning as well, and it builds that loyalty
to your brand. Same thing with WBT. There are people
that don't even know, Oh, there's another station on the
dial besides WBT, and that's the way we like it.
By the way, don't change that dial. Right. Why do
we say that in the broadcast world because we want
you to listen to the station or watch the TV
station all day. So this gets into the so I
went over the affiliate model. They have every right to
say we don't want to carry this content because our
local community standards are not being met. That's actually part
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but she's quoting a Daily Mail story that's relying on
a source who says about Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert
or Colbert, they both don't want Trump to win in
any way or fashion at all. And this has let
an extreme fire under Jimmy's butt to continue to tell
it like it is and be real to himself. And
now Colbert is looking to have Jimmy come on his
show at some point. Yeah, that'll be fun to watch.
The FCC chairman Brendan Carr. He said, this action by
Next Star and Sinclair is unprecedented. He says, I can't
imagine another time when we've had local broadcasters tell a
national programmer like Disney that your content no longer meets
the needs and the values of our community. So this
is an important turning point. He blasted late night shows
for becoming court clerics who enforced quote very narrow political ideology.
There's more work to go, but I'm very glad to
see that American broadcasters are standing up to serve the
interests of their community. And we don't just have this
progressive fois gras coming out from New York and Hollywood. Okay, so,
and thank you. Somebody sent me on Twitter a post
of some of the cancelations that the left celebrated, like
Roseanne Barr fired by ABC Disney from her hit TV
show after a tweet. Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian
TV show for social media posts that we're not in
line with the left's policies, Megan Kelly fired by NBA.
Dave Chappelle, Netflix employee staged to walk out demanding his
comedy special be pulled for transphobia. Joe Rogan, remember the
left pressured Spotify to drop him, Tucker Carlson, Parlor, jk Rowling,
Mike Lindell, Alex Jones. Right, So the left has been
doing this for a long time and now they are
reaping what they have sown. There is actually a law,
not sure people are aware of this, or a rule,
an FCC rule, and it prohibits broadcast licensees or permittees
from broadcasting false information concerning a crime or a catastrophe.
If number one, the licensee knows this information is false,
Two it is foreseeable that broadcast of the information will
cause substantial public harm, and three broadcast of the information
does in fact directly cause substantial public harm. Those are
the rules you agree to when you get an FCC
license in exchange for your monopoly, because that's what that is,
a monopoly. We have a monopoly on eleven ten am,
the frequency, We have a monopoly on that property. That's
what we trade in exchange for the rules that the
FCC lays out. The same thing goes for television broadcast companies.
Here is Ed Morrissey, who is a Ham radio guy,
so he knows all about this stuff. And so I'm
gonna get a little technical here, but it's important because
the FCC issues license licenses for broadcasters pursuing too the
Communications Actor of nineteen thirty four, as well as other legislation,
those whose signal goes out over the public airwaves. So
that's different. The FCC does not have jurisdiction over cable
channels like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, right, doesn't have any
purview over newspapers or the internet publications. Right, it's just
television and radio. So why does Congress give this power
to the FCC and why does it allow the FCC
to terminate licenses for content or actions they consider to
be not in the public interest. So to understand that,
Ed Morrissey lays out what he says is the nature
of the broadcasting industry, and you got to go way
back to the early days of radio when there was
WBT and virtually nobody else. And what happened was other
stations would come along, operators would come along, they would
get a stick, and they would start broadcasting. But because
WBT is so powerful, we would drown out all of
the other signals in the area. If you were close
to eleven ten am on the band, people couldn't hear you,
and our signal would go like halfway across the country,
all the way up the east coast. So anybody on
eleven ten or eleven hundred or eleven twenty or whatever,
if you're close to us, we're just eating your signal.
So they were like, Okay, how do we stop this
from happening? Right? How do we stop a station like
BT from ramping up power? Because we're fifty thousand watts,
we are massive. We are a blowtorch, as they say
in the industry. So how do they stop other smaller
stations or other stations that are almost as powerful as
us from having their signal degraded by ours stepping on theirs?
Because we could ramp up power and just put everybody
else out of business, and that was what the government
was trying to stop from happening. Congress then put an
end to that by declaring the commercial broadcast spectrums to
be a federal jurisdiction and that the airwaves are public property.
To ensure the proper operation of commercial broadcast spectrums, Congress
gave the FCC the power to grant and enforce, as
I said, monopolies on specific frequencies in a local market.
The FCC also regulates and restricts power output to ensure
there's no overlap between broadcast areas for legitimate licensees. So
that's what a broadcast license is. It is the grant
of a monopoly on a specific channel in a local
area to one entity to the exclusion of all others.
That's what it is. Okay. So, in exchange for the
FCC enforcing that monopoly stations agree to operate their stations
in the public interest. What is that defined as well?
That's defined by what the FCC says. And so when
we have our license renewal that comes up, we go
to the FCC, there are public hearings and stuff, and
we explain here are all the things that we do
to provide a public interest, a community service, all like
we're out here at this blood drive because the point
of the local broadcast is to provide a community service,
a public good. That's why we're here. That's why we
do what we do. That's why we do news and
traffic and weather and all of this stuff. That's the
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telling you that through their affiliate that is carrying your content,
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Beckett Adams is a columnist at The Hill and National Review,
the DC Examiner, and reacting to the Jimmy Kimmel news
he says, Oh my gosh, if if this is the
thing that leads the left to finally retire those autistic
handmade costumes, it'll all have been worth it, not, right, Yeah,
because they're trying to cancel Disney and Hulu. I cancel
them all. Well, that means you can't wear your handmaid's
tail costume anymore, right, So yeah, I guess that would
be worth it. Going back to this piece by Ed
Morrissey at hot air dot com, he says, the NCC
has mainly let its foot ease off of the pedal
in recent years, and that's because most of the offensive
material that they would normally police has actually moved over
to cable and the Internet. The irony of this is
that the FCC has largely stood down while the Biden
administration essentially created its own Offcom, which is the British
censorship regulatory body. Except Offcom, they've got jurisdiction over not
just TV and radio, but newspapers, Internet stuff like it.
Like that's a massive operation over in Britain, so the
you know, the FCCA doesn't have a whole lot to
police anymore because again, offensive material migrated away from broadcast television.
But at the same time, you had the Biden administration,
through the State Department Health and Human Services, right, all
these NGOs funding quote misinformation policing which targeted the online
and cable channel markets. The federal government created censorship regimes
on platforms where they had absolutely no jurisdiction. Meanwhile, they
allowed broadcasters to exploit government provided monopolies with carte blanche
on blatantly false content with clear partisan and malicious intent.
And you may think, if you are of the left,
you may think that everything Jimmy Kimmel says is correct,
but half the country disagrees with you, and you may think, well,
they're just not living in reality. Well, and they think
the same thing about you. Right therein lies, therein lies
the problem. You're saying things are disinformation, like oh my gosh,
if you take the shot you might get myocarditis. That's
such a lie. You're saying these things and those are lies,
and then oops, you turned out to not be correct. Right,
Like there are people who have had these harms from
those shots, you said Donald Trump was an asset of
Russia and putin ined with the election in order to
specifically help Trump win. Oops, not true either. Now that
we've got all of the divulging of all of these documents,
turns out, yeah, that wasn't true either. You guys have
been spreading the disinformation while telling everybody that you were
right and they were wrong, and it turned out it
was completely the opposite. Now, you can argue that the
FCC really should use a more laissez faire approach to
enforcing the public interest clause in their rules. However, you
cannot argue that the authority does not exist and that
it hasn't been enforced in the past, because the public
interest clause does in fact exist and it has in
fact been used in the past. And you cannot argue
that after the last few years a big brother tech censorship,
that Jimmy Kimmel is some sort of an anomaly. Kimmel's
harangue was precisely the kind of beach that the State
Department and HHS kept shutting down via its Global Engagement Center,
or as I always called it, the GEK. The GEC,
along with its partnerships with activist quote unquote monitors like
NewsGuard and not just on media organizations, but on Facebook
users and Twitter users alike. And we weren't using a
government provided broadcast monopoly as a speech platform either. Okay,
you guys use the government to censor people that disagreed
with you, and they didn't have government protection for a
monopoly product. And that's what the FCC is there to do,
is to protect those monopoly products on the bandwidth in
the local market. So here's the thing. Disney and all
these other companies BT as well need the FCC to
enforce these monopolies that it grants in order for their
broadcast stations to operate. If the FCC decided to stop
enforcing its authority, we would have pirate operators that would
start interfering with the over the year connections to viewers
and listeners. And that means lost revenue in a business,
particularly the late night slot with a diminishing profit margin.
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